A sample paper, free, with the working shown
12 items, 12 minutes, marked on the spot. No account, no card, and no email address asked for before you sit it. The worked answer to every item is on the result page whether or not you give us one afterwards.
What is in it
| Section | Items | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Numerical reasoning | 2 | Flight deck arithmetic under time: crosswind, ISA deviation, descent points. |
| English and radiotelephony | 2 | How a number is transmitted, and whether a written sentence says what it means. |
| Verbal reasoning | 2 | A passage and a statement. True, false, or the passage does not settle it. |
| Logical reasoning | 2 | Premises that either force a conclusion or do not. No outside knowledge counts. |
| Data interpretation | 2 | A table, and a question that cannot be answered by reading one column. |
| CRM judgement | 2 | Four defensible actions, ranked. Not one obvious answer and three absurd ones. |
What is not in it
Three of the families in a pack are missing: abstract series, spatial orientation, mechanical comprehension. They are missing for a reason rather than to hold something back. All three are pattern work, and a run of two items tells you about two items.
The technical bank is not here either. 500 worked ATPL questions is not something anybody samples in 12 minutes.
Pick the airline you are applying to
- EmiratesFor pilots applying to Emirates in Dubai, through the remote first stage and the on-site assessment day that follows it.
- Qatar AirwaysFor pilots applying to Qatar Airways in Doha, across the aptitude testing, the technical element and the panel.
- EtihadFor pilots applying to Etihad in Abu Dhabi, across the aptitude testing, the simulator and the panel.
- flydubaiFor pilots applying to flydubai in Dubai, including the 737 simulator assessment.
- Riyadh AirFor pilots applying to Riyadh Air, an airline in its first year of operation, where almost nothing about selection is published.
Two honest notes before you start
The paper is the same whichever airline you choose. The aptitude stage is the same shape at all five, and these 12 items come out of the banks every pack draws from. What the airline changes is everything after the result: which process the pack maps, and which airline the course talks about.
These are the same 12 items for everybody. They are not drawn at random and they do not rotate. A pack draws 560 aptitude and reasoning items, and at most seven of this paper sit inside any one of them, so sitting it costs you almost nothing if you buy afterwards. It also means a second run proves nothing. The first score is the useful one.