NATS interview process
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From: italy
Hang in there those people still waiting on a reply from their application!
I'm due for stage 1 for Oct 4th!
It would be great if someone who has done stage 1 could tell me if they allow you to use a calculator for the maths part of it?
That's the one thing bugging me, along with having to know everything in their test materials booklet
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I'm due for stage 1 for Oct 4th!
It would be great if someone who has done stage 1 could tell me if they allow you to use a calculator for the maths part of it?
That's the one thing bugging me, along with having to know everything in their test materials booklet
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From: AFRICA
mishaastaroth: sorry, but I do not fully understand. You mean, the literature and the numerical questions are all one test, but the first questions regard the panflet and the remaining questions are about the maths?. And you have 18 min to do'em all?. This is important to me. Thanks
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From: AFRICA
mishaastaroth: thanks about your prompt replies. Any chance of anyone corroborating about there only being about 3 or 4 questions of maths?, and having to have only replied these few questions of maths and the rest of literature you pass on to the remaining cube/basic checking/diagramming tests?. I mean, it just seems so strange, since it was a kinda of a mouse trap for so many candidates. It doesn't seem logical.
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From: surrey
stage 1 test
so, regarding the first test with the numeracy and legislation, if only a few questions are numeracy stuff, what kinda spread is there for the documentation? is it mainly stuff about the controllers and rules and stuff, or what? basically, do i really have to learn how many seats there are on a fokker 50 and how high an airbus A319 can fly at, or can i forget that part?
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From: AFRICA
HeaVn: Thanks.I believe the new technology NATS set up a last year and year before didn't require the use of the strips system since it was going to be a computer based function. Therefore, I pressume you'll no longer be examined on the SDM. But I am talking with no good knowledge, just anassumption. Sorry I am of no help.
By the way, were the questions to the first test very difficult?, surely if about 50 % gets booted out they can't be too easy...right?
By the way, were the questions to the first test very difficult?, surely if about 50 % gets booted out they can't be too easy...right?
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From: Ciudad Real (Spain)
The first test you did was the questionnaire about yourself (90minutes)
Then you did the basic checking test (9minutes); there were 25 questions and for the first 5 questions you had to answer in 9 seconds, the next five in 8, and so on...
If you passed that then you were invited to stage 1
I think that's how it's always been...
Then you did the basic checking test (9minutes); there were 25 questions and for the first 5 questions you had to answer in 9 seconds, the next five in 8, and so on...
If you passed that then you were invited to stage 1
I think that's how it's always been...
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From: Home away from home
@mts1, SDM is (or was anyawy) the final part of the FEAST test package, it's entierly computerised. It is called Strip Display Management because it is focused around a display of flight strips, but these are on a screen. No actual physical flight strips are used during the SDM.
@malakajin IIRC basic checking during stage 1 was removed several years ago, if you search a few hundred pages back in the thread you may find more details on it. When I did stage 1 there were no basic checking though.
@malakajin IIRC basic checking during stage 1 was removed several years ago, if you search a few hundred pages back in the thread you may find more details on it. When I did stage 1 there were no basic checking though.
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From: surrey
stage 1 assessment
morning everyone.
people here are saying that there are only three or four numeracy based questions in the first part of the exam, meaning there are 25ish questions on the document we were given to read, is that right? what kinda topics are the main ones? everything in the first part of the document or the capacity and flying heights of the planes as well? i can't understand why we'd need to know all of that really.
thanks.
people here are saying that there are only three or four numeracy based questions in the first part of the exam, meaning there are 25ish questions on the document we were given to read, is that right? what kinda topics are the main ones? everything in the first part of the document or the capacity and flying heights of the planes as well? i can't understand why we'd need to know all of that really.
thanks.
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From: England
Got my stage 1 tomorrow and just wondering if we need to know specific dates .i.e. first stage of NOTA being introduced in 2005 etc? I have an overview of some key dates but iv not been focusing on dates, cheers
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