Aptitude test

[Alex Himself]

Failed on 18th Feb, so nearly the 6 months up and its not take too long.

who here has taken the test, and how many points did you get? would any one be willing in helping me with a few questions if i email them some example questions, it would be very much appreciated.

Cheers

Alex

[2nd time round]

Hi Alex,

I have been through the apptitude tests before and the only thing you can do to help yourself is to practice time / distance / speed calcs, over and over. I know this may not be much help to you right now but it really is the only way. AFCO usually give you some examples so keep on practicing them.

[Hyperlithe]

I would suggest practicing your mental arithmetic as well. You could use one of those maths GCSE revision guides, might be a bit useful...

[Blue_wolf]

How old are you?

How many points did you fail it by last time?

If you failed by quite a margin then i don't think you will pass this time, 6 months isn't much time for your aptitudes to increase.

[Alex Himself]

failed by about 5 points. its just my work rate which was low as im slow.
apart from that it was ok.

[day tripper]

Does anyone have links for any aptitude sites where I can practise?

[icklecathy]

Does anyone have links for any aptitude sites where I can practise?

The aptitude tests at OASC are designed so that they test natural ability.

The only think you can do to prepare is practice mental arithmetic and some maths. All the others you can either do or you can't.

[Biggles1211]

Ickle, they are talking about the AST than potential airmen sit at the AFCO, not about the OASC aptitude test.

[icklecathy]

Ickle, they are talking about the AST than potential airmen sit at the AFCO, not about the OASC aptitude test.

Aaaah! Ok sorry ignore me!

[Alex Himself]

Hi, here is the sections which i failed on ast time i took the test.

http://www.freewebs.com/alexb1985/

If you want me to add any more sections i will do so.

The sections are:
Verbal reasoning
Numerical reasoning
Work rate
Spatial reasoning
Electrical comprehension
Mechanical comprehension
Memory

[day tripper]

Well what a load of bollocks. Did the test and didnt get enough points for WSO airloadmaster, but enough for weapons technician. However there are no vacancies at the moment, so Im told to call up every 2 weeks. "Is there a waiting list I can go on?" Er no just call up. Well im dishearted to say the least.

To be honest the test isnt that hard apart from the memory section. However the time to answer the questions was just stupid! 4 minutes to answer 20 maths questions. The questions were not hard, however there wasnt enough time to work them out.

So ill call up every 2 weeks, but the way things are going I bet there wont be any spaces for least 8 months, if it comes to thew 5th month and still no luck ill resit the test. There was a guy there who was resitting the test, I seemed to get the idea the resit paper is exactly the same, can someone confirm that?

Im sorry but i didnt get to do an honours degree at uni by chance.

[Hyperlithe]

However the time to answer the questions was just stupid! 4 minutes to answer 20 maths questions. The questions were not hard, however there wasnt enough time to work them out.

That's kinda the point DT, they want to see how many you can do in the time; obviously the better you are at maths, the more questions you can answer! And that is 12 seconds per question, which is actually quite long...

[day tripper]

Im sorry but I have to disagree with you there, 12 seconds is not enough for the later questions.

Nevermind, Ill keep training physically and give a the afco a call in a few weeks to get an idea of which areas of the RAF are being cut, ahem i mean modernisation.

[Alex Himself]

6 months almost up now, have to ring them closer to august to get a resit date. I just been to see someone my mum knows, who is an air loadmaster/WSOP, got some good info.

how many points did you get day tripper?

[abdn]

Do you mind sharing some of that info Alex?