Did you take the COMPASS test?
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Hi. Harryhawk1 Have you taken your test yet? I have got mine in few days, therefore, could you share your experience? I am using latestpilotjob and skytest (middle east). I've noticed some here mentioned physics some say there isn't any. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Also for what school you are applying to (myself for wizz cadet program) Thanks!
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Greetings,
I am going to answer the COMPASS test for Baltic Aviation Academy.
I am travelling across the continent to answer this test so I want to prepare my best for it.
Please tell me what all test are there to pass in COMPASS and a brief description of each test.
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards.
I am going to answer the COMPASS test for Baltic Aviation Academy.
I am travelling across the continent to answer this test so I want to prepare my best for it.
Please tell me what all test are there to pass in COMPASS and a brief description of each test.
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards.
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I don't know if each battery of COMPASS test is the same but I can tell you what I know.
The first test was a hand-eye coordination exercise. You have to keep the flight director centred with a joystick and the ball centred with the rudder. You also have to control speed with arrow keys and you will experience speed fluctuations due to gust. The handling will not resemble a real aircraft, at all. I reckon the aim of the exercise is to measure your reaction time and coordination.
The second test was a maths test, basic topics. I do not remember if there were also trigonometric functions, but there were questions about fractions, percentages and questions about distance, speed and time. Review operations with fractions, percentages and basic geometry formulas.
The third test was a short memory test. You are given altitude, heading, speed, and frequency. They will disappear and you have to input them. Not all four the items at the same time, but again, it depends on the test and it might well be you might get all 4 of them together.
The fourth test was very similar to the previous one in terms of user interface, but here the information will not disappear. However, you will have some lights turning on and you have to press the related button on the keypad. This might be different.
The fifth test was a spatial orientation test. You are given directional gyro, attitude indicator and relative bearing to a beacon, and you have to choose between the aircraft given. Be careful, look at all the instruments.
After this, I had to answer more than 200 psychological answers.
The first test was a hand-eye coordination exercise. You have to keep the flight director centred with a joystick and the ball centred with the rudder. You also have to control speed with arrow keys and you will experience speed fluctuations due to gust. The handling will not resemble a real aircraft, at all. I reckon the aim of the exercise is to measure your reaction time and coordination.
The second test was a maths test, basic topics. I do not remember if there were also trigonometric functions, but there were questions about fractions, percentages and questions about distance, speed and time. Review operations with fractions, percentages and basic geometry formulas.
The third test was a short memory test. You are given altitude, heading, speed, and frequency. They will disappear and you have to input them. Not all four the items at the same time, but again, it depends on the test and it might well be you might get all 4 of them together.
The fourth test was very similar to the previous one in terms of user interface, but here the information will not disappear. However, you will have some lights turning on and you have to press the related button on the keypad. This might be different.
The fifth test was a spatial orientation test. You are given directional gyro, attitude indicator and relative bearing to a beacon, and you have to choose between the aircraft given. Be careful, look at all the instruments.
After this, I had to answer more than 200 psychological answers.
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Greetings,
I am going to answer the COMPASS test for Baltic Aviation Academy.
I am travelling across the continent to answer this test so I want to prepare my best for it.
Please tell me what all test are there to pass in COMPASS and a brief description of each test.
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards.
I am going to answer the COMPASS test for Baltic Aviation Academy.
I am travelling across the continent to answer this test so I want to prepare my best for it.
Please tell me what all test are there to pass in COMPASS and a brief description of each test.
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards.
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Update.
I have recently undertaken psychometric tests for a well-known operator in Europe after I failed the Advanced Compass test in December for another airline. This one was harder and I passed it. The psychological assessment was even more detailed than just a 5-minute talk with a young blonde, attractive aviation psychologist. SkyTest is all you need. These batteries of tests are pretty much useless in my opinion if all you need is to practice a little bit. And I thought they were supposed to determine who is cut for the job or not.
That's the assessors' job and they do it better.
I have recently undertaken psychometric tests for a well-known operator in Europe after I failed the Advanced Compass test in December for another airline. This one was harder and I passed it. The psychological assessment was even more detailed than just a 5-minute talk with a young blonde, attractive aviation psychologist. SkyTest is all you need. These batteries of tests are pretty much useless in my opinion if all you need is to practice a little bit. And I thought they were supposed to determine who is cut for the job or not.
That's the assessors' job and they do it better.
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Update.
I have recently undertaken psychometric tests for a well-known operator in Europe after I failed the Advanced Compass test in December for another airline. This one was harder and I passed it. The psychological assessment was even more detailed than just a 5-minute talk with a young blonde, attractive aviation psychologist. SkyTest is all you need. These batteries of tests are pretty much useless in my opinion if all you need is to practice a little bit. And I thought they were supposed to determine who is cut for the job or not.
That's the assessors' job and they do it better.
I have recently undertaken psychometric tests for a well-known operator in Europe after I failed the Advanced Compass test in December for another airline. This one was harder and I passed it. The psychological assessment was even more detailed than just a 5-minute talk with a young blonde, attractive aviation psychologist. SkyTest is all you need. These batteries of tests are pretty much useless in my opinion if all you need is to practice a little bit. And I thought they were supposed to determine who is cut for the job or not.
That's the assessors' job and they do it better.
Cheers for providing and sharing useful information with regards to the tests. You mentioned you did an advanced compass test, can you elaborate which aspects or modules in particular had made this test significantly more difficult or advanced? Im currently practicing the compass test and i am aware of skytest reputation, however, do you have any opinion regarding pilotaptitudetest.com or latestpilotjobs. With regards to the psychological assessment, am i correct to say that there is no right or wrong answers or is there more of a preference for a certain personality.
cheers,
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I tried pilotpatitutetest.com and SkyTest and the latter is much better. And to make it better, you only pay for it once. I failed the Advanced Compass test in December, I don't know the name of the battery test I passed 2 weeks ago.
As for the psychological assessment, I think you should imagine yourself in a flight deck environment and think about what you think is best in such an environment: assertiveness, dedication, commitment, team-work, being open to others' opinions, speak up when you deem it necessary, but also be the type of guy you would buy a drink to.
Of course, if you really aren't any of that the assessors will find out at some point. I had an interview with the psychologist for more than 1 hour, she probably wrote her notes on 10+ pages and a couple of weeks later I received a copy of the very detailed report that was sent to the airline for the final decision.
As for the psychological assessment, I think you should imagine yourself in a flight deck environment and think about what you think is best in such an environment: assertiveness, dedication, commitment, team-work, being open to others' opinions, speak up when you deem it necessary, but also be the type of guy you would buy a drink to.
Of course, if you really aren't any of that the assessors will find out at some point. I had an interview with the psychologist for more than 1 hour, she probably wrote her notes on 10+ pages and a couple of weeks later I received a copy of the very detailed report that was sent to the airline for the final decision.
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I tried pilotpatitutetest.com and SkyTest and the latter is much better. And to make it better, you only pay for it once. I failed the Advanced Compass test in December, I don't know the name of the battery test I passed 2 weeks ago.
As for the psychological assessment, I think you should imagine yourself in a flight deck environment and think about what you think is best in such an environment: assertiveness, dedication, commitment, team-work, being open to others' opinions, speak up when you deem it necessary, but also be the type of guy you would buy a drink to.
Of course, if you really aren't any of that the assessors will find out at some point. I had an interview with the psychologist for more than 1 hour, she probably wrote her notes on 10+ pages and a couple of weeks later I received a copy of the very detailed report that was sent to the airline for the final decision.
As for the psychological assessment, I think you should imagine yourself in a flight deck environment and think about what you think is best in such an environment: assertiveness, dedication, commitment, team-work, being open to others' opinions, speak up when you deem it necessary, but also be the type of guy you would buy a drink to.
Of course, if you really aren't any of that the assessors will find out at some point. I had an interview with the psychologist for more than 1 hour, she probably wrote her notes on 10+ pages and a couple of weeks later I received a copy of the very detailed report that was sent to the airline for the final decision.
Im heavily considering to purchase the Skytest software however it requires a given USB keytab for some of the batteries, hence would be problematic since i do not live in the UK and my assessment test for my chosen flight school is in a month's time. I will be applying to BAA training so i doubt i will have to deal with an interview with a psychologist, that being said, i do have a profile test to do via. a multiple-choice test and then a final interview (whom i would guess are the assessors). But will definitely try my best to be more inclined towards the personality traits you've mentioned earlier without steering to far from the truth.
Again thank you for the kind advice given,
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Hello,
I'm new to this forum and I recently finished flight school. Next month I will be applying for a well-known operator who also uses the Advanced COMPASS test in the selection procedure. As a preparation I'm looking to purchase one of either PilotAptitude test, SkyTest or Latest Pilot Job test. Does anyone of you have experience with these tests? And if yes, what are your opinions on them? Was there anything missing? Were the tests current or outdated? Did you feel like it prepared you well enough for the Advanced COMPASS test?
Thanks in advance for your replies!
I'm new to this forum and I recently finished flight school. Next month I will be applying for a well-known operator who also uses the Advanced COMPASS test in the selection procedure. As a preparation I'm looking to purchase one of either PilotAptitude test, SkyTest or Latest Pilot Job test. Does anyone of you have experience with these tests? And if yes, what are your opinions on them? Was there anything missing? Were the tests current or outdated? Did you feel like it prepared you well enough for the Advanced COMPASS test?
Thanks in advance for your replies!
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I like SkyTest, also because it's a one-time payment and not subscription based. However, you need to carefully see which one you will have to buy. I think the Middle East and UK ones have Advanced COMPASS tests.
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Hello everyone, did any of you take the COMPASS (computerized pilot aptitude screening system) test?
On the EPST website they only say that the math involved is "multiplication, division, subtraction as well as speed, distance and time calculations".
Is it really only about this, aren't more complicated math problems involved, including percentages and algebra and equations?
Is there any resource to learn more about this test?
Thank you all!
On the EPST website they only say that the math involved is "multiplication, division, subtraction as well as speed, distance and time calculations".
Is it really only about this, aren't more complicated math problems involved, including percentages and algebra and equations?
Is there any resource to learn more about this test?
Thank you all!
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Hi all,
This is an old post, but I thought I reply here.
There are some more topics on the Advanced Compass test.
Does anyone maybe have some tips or tricks for the memory test?
During the memory test we see 4 diffirent value's in a random order
- alitude 36.500
- Speed 480
- Heading 265
- Radio 127.125
We see these value's like 5 seconds and then you have 15 seconds I think to enter these values.
I can remember 2 easily.
To remember 3 is doable.
But to remember 4 I am quite struggeling.
Does anyone have some tips for this?
Thnx!!
This is an old post, but I thought I reply here.
There are some more topics on the Advanced Compass test.
Does anyone maybe have some tips or tricks for the memory test?
During the memory test we see 4 diffirent value's in a random order
- alitude 36.500
- Speed 480
- Heading 265
- Radio 127.125
We see these value's like 5 seconds and then you have 15 seconds I think to enter these values.
I can remember 2 easily.
To remember 3 is doable.
But to remember 4 I am quite struggeling.
Does anyone have some tips for this?
Thnx!!
