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Stage 1 is the first round of tests and interviews you will do during the selection process. The schedule can vary with individual candidates, but from observation most people seem to do an interview, the Job Knowledge Test, the Wombat Test, an IQ test and a personality test. The JKI booklet is a pdf that they send you via e-mail, once you have confirmed your attendance at Stage 1. The booklet has very basic information on various ground school topics, and extra reading is required to answer some questions in the JK Test.
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Here is a very detailed and accurate description of the aptitude test you will do in Stage 2. It was taken from the blog of someone who did the cadet course years back, but rest assured the test is still the same. Hope this helps.
Aptitute Test: There are different parts in the Aptitute Test.
a) First part of the test, there are two short parallel lines with a dot in between. The two parallel lines will move left and right at varing speed and distance and you are suppose to use the joy-stick to move to dot and keep the dot as close to the lines as possible. This test will gets more difficult when your scores get higher and if you are not keeping up, your score will drop. You get 3 tries to get an average score.
b) In the second test, it is pretty much the same thing but with a twist. Instead of having the computer increasing you score and difficulty, you are suppose to press the green button to increase your score and thus increase your difficulty. And if things get too hard and it is out of control, you are suppose to press the red button to reduce your score and difficulty. If you did not press the red button, you will automatically lose score onces things get out of control. So it is quite hard as you try to get maximum points while keeping things under control. Again, you get 3 tries to get an average score.
c) In this test, you are suppose to bring this aircraft to this point in the glide path. You are suppose to align the plane with the runway and bring it down to 50 feet from touch down at the same time reduce the speed to 100km/h. In this test, you use your joy-stick and the red and green button for throttle control. You will get points according to the speed of your approach (you are suppose to keep your speed as fast as possible before you reach 50 feet as you get higher points for a faster average approach speed), your angle of alignment. You will get 1 test try and 5 real tries.
d) Quick Subtraction, you will need to do 50 quick subtaction questions. All you need to do is to confirm the answer is right or wrong. You will get points for your speed and accuracy.
e) In this test, you are going to use the rudder paddle and your joy-stick to try to keep this cross within this box. The computer will try to move the cross away from the box to simulate wind. It is an interesting test. You will get points for the horizontal and vertical errors. You get 3 tries.
f) Shoot the bandit. This test use the red and green button. You will be shown two aircraft with two different wing span, the one with the longer wing span is the bad guy, the one with the shorter span is the good guy. Then the computer will randomly pop up planes with different wing span on the screen and you get 1.5 seconds to decide to press the green to shot or red to stop. If you did not decided within 1.5 seconds, the computer will automatically shot it down. You will do this for a total of 3 times and each time there will be 50 planes to decide which to shoot or not, the different in the wing span size get smaller on each time. In the last try, you can barely tell the difference. You will be score for your reaction time and accuracy.