Interestingly, people don’t seem to complain nearly as much about having to sit maths or physics tests. Surely if you can fly a plane and do all the required calculations in a simulator then maths and physics tests are as redundant as computer-based aptitude tests at determining your ability to do the job? I mean, is it any more valid that you can calculate the volume of a hemisphere than it is that you can demonstrate positional awareness in an unfamiliar situation? I’d argue not, and yet it’s the aptitude test that gets slated.
But we can debate the efficacy of aptitude tests until we’re Smurf-faced. Whichever way you look at it, it clearly works for BA as there will be no shortage of high quality candidates for them to pick and choose from as they wish. So if it’s whoever can jump on the most Goombas wins then that’s what it is; and if you want to join them then you should practise doing just that.
