ADAPT Test Practice
Cadet programmes screen applicants on aptitude long before they look at your logbook — timed mental arithmetic, physics, spatial reasoning and multitasking, under a clock, with no calculator. Most candidates meet that pressure for the first time on the day. This is where you meet it beforehand, as many times as you want, free.
seven modules live now — Aviation Maths, Physics & Mechanical Reasoning, Spatial & Pattern Reasoning, English Language, Control & Co-ordination, Divided Attention and Attitudes & Airmanship. More modules are being built.
Your practice session
7 modules, back to back, the way a screening battery runs them. No calculator — that is the point. Everything is generated fresh, so you can sit this as often as you like and never meet the same paper twice. Tap a module to include or drop it — the full set runs about 130 minutes, so drill one weak area if that is what you have time for.
The pass marks are the same at every setting — only the clock and the workload change. That means a score on one setting cannot be compared with a score on another, so your progress is tracked separately for each.
How this practice actually works
Six things worth knowing before you start.
Each module runs against its own clock, back to back, the way a screening battery does. The clock keeps running if you switch tabs — because in the real assessment it does too.
Screening batteries prohibit them. Every question is built to fall out of mental arithmetic inside the time available, so practising here builds the habit the real thing demands.
Questions are generated from a random seed rather than drawn from a fixed bank. You cannot memorise your way through it, which is the whole point — you train the skill, not the answers.
The 1 to 9 scale airline screening uses, with 5 at the middle. The raw score needed for each stanine is printed on your result, so nothing about the grade is hidden from you.
Each wrong option corresponds to a specific error — forgetting to convert minutes to hours, using cosine where sine belongs. Pick one and the review names the mistake rather than just marking you down.
The whole test is generated and scored in your browser, and your answers, your workings and your attitudes questionnaire never leave it. What we do record is the score and the breakdown behind it — anonymously if you are signed out, or to your own account if you are signed in, which is what lets your history follow you between devices. That data is used to fix the questions that are too hard and to replace our provisional grade bands with measured ones. It is never shared or sold, and you can switch the anonymous line off on your result page.
The Control & Co-ordination module gives you a marker that drifts for a full minute while you hold it on the centre. Drag it, or plug in a joystick and it is used automatically. You are scored on how much of the drift you actually cancelled — and only ever against others using the same kind of input.
Where the theory behind it lives
An aptitude score improves when the underlying knowledge is solid. Both of these subjects are already written out in full on this site, free.
Four weeks out? Here is the plan
Most candidates cram aptitude the way they cram a written paper, in the last week. It does not work, because none of this is knowledge — it is capacity, and capacity is built the way fitness is: little, often, and early enough to matter.
Mental maths and physics every day, no calculator, no exceptions. This is the week that decides your ceiling — everything later is layered on top of how fast the sums come. Short and daily beats long and occasional.
Keep the daily maths, and bring in headings, instruments and the tracking task. The see-decide-move loop improves with repetition faster than almost anything else here, but only if it is worked regularly.
Now the divided-attention module, and full sittings under the clock. Expect your maths to get worse the moment something else is competing for you — that drop is the thing being measured, and it is what this week trains away.
Light sittings, review your progress panel rather than chasing new ground, and read the attitudes module properly. Sleep matters more than one more practice run — arriving tired undoes a month of this.
Twenty minutes a day beats three hours on a Sunday. The modules are free and unlimited, so there is no reason to ration them.
Honest notes on this practice
Your stanine is measured against a published standard, not against other students. The raw score needed for each grade is printed on your result page and you can check it yourself. We will not print a score derived from a population we have not actually measured.
A good score here is not a prediction. It tells you your arithmetic is fast and accurate under a clock, which is worth knowing. It is not a forecast of any airline's decision, and nobody who tells you otherwise can back it up.
Question counts and time limits are provisional. They reflect the shape these batteries are commonly reported to take. As we confirm the real format, this practice is adjusted to match — and this note will say so.
Independent practice material, written from scratch for Indian student pilots. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the publisher of the ADAPT assessment or to any airline.