What is the TestAir360: Mental Arithmetic test in the Wizz Air Pilot Academy selection process?
It is an arithmetic test that you listen to rather than read. A voice reads one equation — anything from 291 plus 468 to 542 minus 66 divided by 6, times 32 — and while it speaks there is nothing on the screen but a speaker, three numbers and a progress bar. You pick the result from the three options. A round is always twenty questions, and the questions are generated the moment you choose a mode, so there is no fixed bank to memorise. What is being measured is not arithmetic on its own but arithmetic carried out while you are still holding a sentence you heard once.
Is there a time limit?
No countdown clock, in any mode, per question or per round — and that is a deliberate part of the design rather than an oversight. It does not mean time is free, though: the module records how long you take on every single question, the round duration goes into your report, and where two candidates finish on the same score the faster round is ranked ahead. So there is no clock, but there is a stopwatch.
Which keys does it use, and can I replay the sentence?
The three options are 1, 2 and 3 from left to right, and clicking or tapping them does the same thing. R (or the speaker button) replays the sentence — but only in EASY and MEDIUM. In HARD and EXAM the sentence plays once and the speaker locks, which is the single biggest reason to drive your replay count down to zero before you move up. Esc opens the exit confirmation. Enter does nothing on the question screen: it only closes the feedback window in EASY.
How is the score worked out?
The formula is one line from the module’s own code: your correct answers divided by twenty, as a percentage. The denominator is always the size of the round, never the number of questions you answered. That has one consequence worth internalising: an unanswered question scores exactly the same as a wrong one, so there is never a reason to leave one blank. With three options, a guess is worth a third of a mark and a blank is worth nothing.
What are the four modes, and which of them can I try here?
EASY is twenty one-operation questions with feedback on and unlimited replays. MEDIUM is twenty medium questions, about half of them two-operation, feedback off. HARD is where the ladder actually steps: 83.8 % of its questions are three-operation chains, 23.8 % carry a bracket, the spoken sentence doubles in length, and the replay key is withdrawn at the same moment. EXAM is the mixture — six easy, eight medium, six hard — and it is strictly ordered, so questions 1–6 are the easy ones and 15-20 are the hard ones. EASY and MEDIUM are open in the demo on this page; HARD and EXAM are the PRO half and show a PRO badge in the mode menu.
The equation is said in one order but has to be solved in another. How do I handle that?
Multiplication and division are always done before addition and subtraction, wherever they fall in the sentence. 542 minus 66 divided by 6, times 32 means 542 − (66 ÷ 6 × 32) = 190, not 2,539. Measured across 15,240 three-operation questions, reading strictly left to right gives a different result in 74 % of them — but the mistake is loud rather than subtle: the wrong result is a median 327 % away from the right one and it matched one of the three options 0 times in all of them. If nothing on screen is near your answer, check your order of operations first.
How do I know whether a question has brackets?
There is exactly one spoken signal, and it was checked on every generated question: “the sum of X and Y”. If you hear it there are brackets; if you do not, there are none — 6,186 out of 6,186, with no exception. A comma is a breath and never a bracket: 38 times 7, plus 52 is 38 × 7 + 52, not 38 × (7 + 52). Only two of the sixteen question shapes are bracketed and both are in the hard pool.
Do the three options tell me anything?
They do, and we would rather publish it than pretend otherwise: the module places one option above the answer and one below it, so across 80,000 generated questions the correct answer was the middle of the three every single time. Two reasons not to build a method on that. It is a property measured in this module’s shipped question pool, and nothing guarantees the selection test you sit uses the same distractor policy. And marking the middle number teaches you nothing, while the ranking separates equal scores by time. The genuinely useful half of the same measurement is that the median gap between options is only 6.3 % of the answer in EASY and 5.9 % in HARD — so a good estimate usually decides the question before an exact result would.
Is the demo on this page the real module?
Yes. The player above loads the same module from hub.cadetpro.com that PRO subscribers use, inside a sandboxed frame, with no sign-up. EASY and MEDIUM are open; HARD and EXAM carry the module’s own PRO lock. What PRO adds is those two modes, the detailed performance analysis after each round, and unlimited access across the whole Wizz Air module set.
Is this an official Wizz Air product?
No. CADETPRO is an independent preparation platform. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Wizz Air or Aon in any way, and it does not promise a pass or a job. What it provides is practice against a faithful reproduction of the task and a detailed report on how you performed.
