Whats the hardest question you get in Aptitudes?

[Speedbird744]

What is the hardest type of question one can be faced with in the selection tests?

[Iain]

The questions are not hard, the verbal ones are ambiguous, while the numeric ones are so easy to make.
Practice will really help you, I called up the company who do the BA testing, and they recommened some books!
I do not have them next to me, but if you drop me an email I will give you the info!
[email protected]

[redsnail]

With some of them, it is "how are you going to pay?"

[eagerbeaver]

Here's one that was put to me in ops once;

You are a new first officer on a night stop in europe. Yourself and the cabin crew are having a drink in the bar relaxing waiting for the captain to arrive. The captain appears in a dress, high heels and make-up, what do you say or do?

comments please.....

[flying Dr]

Male or female captain?

[foghorn]

Buy her a drink?

[southern softy]

or you say

" good evening David, ( in a very deep macho voice, pint of Brown ale is it"

[eagerbeaver]

you are all a lttle more switched on than i gave you credit for. The captain does not have to be a man. I thought that was quite a good question.

[hmm nice flaps]

well I have to confess that i was not switched onto this! But I did only skim read it, but embarrassingly only realised on reading the proceeding post that the captain could very well be a woman! Soes does this mean that I am sexist -perhaps the name hmm nice flaps gives that away! To be fair though just how many women are Airline captains? Does anyone know any figures.
Nice trick question and I imagine that answering along the lines of "maybe the captain is playing a joke" could be highly embarrasing at an interview.

[Elin Scheffers]

Dear who-ever-you-are,
have you noticed that women are taking over the aviationworld? Ofcourse the captain is going to walk in with make-up and a dress on. DUHHH

[flying Dr]

Dear Thermy,
damn right you are. Women are propably better pilots then men, 'cause they don't follow their little friends like we do.