Prepare for the MollySpider (spatial orientation) module of the Mollymawk battery SunExpress pilot candidates face. Track the spider across the cubes in your head as Turn and Move commands are spoken aloud; when the sequence ends, mark which face of which cube it landed on — in 6 seconds.
The spider sits on one face of a structure built from cubes. The commands are spoken: Turn only rotates the direction it faces, Move carries it to the neighbouring face — and both are relative to the spider’s point of view. When the sequence ends you mark the cube’s colour and its face on the answer screen. Try it with the module’s own Start button — no sign-up needed.
MollySpider is not a memory test but a mental visualisation test: you are not asked to memorise the commands, but to hold the spider on the right face in your head. As the cube on screen turns, right and left swap places; the arrow on the front face tells you which face counts as “front”. What it measures is spatial orientation and direction tracking.
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The spider stands on a three-dimensional structure of many-faced cubes and is steered by two commands. Turn only rotates the direction it faces — it stays on the same face. Move carries it to the neighbouring face. The critical point: both commands are relative to the spider’s point of view; “turn right” means the spider turns to its own right, “move right” means it steps onto the face on its right. The commands are spoken and follow one another.
MollySpider measures whether you can read direction relative to the spider rather than the screen. Noticing that a turn looks reversed on a face you cannot see, carrying a long command sequence without dropping it, and picking the right one of six faces — spatial orientation capacity budur.
Commands are read against the spider’s heading, not against the screen.
On bottom and back faces turns look reversed; you have to rotate the cube in your head.
3–5 commands on Easy, up to 12 on Medium; each one stacks on the last.
On the answer screen you mark the cube’s colour and its face at the same time.
Every MollySpider session you finish is broken down automatically. See more than the number of correct answers: how your accuracy shifts as the sequence grows, which faces your errors cluster on, and where your decision time goes as the level rises.
Decision time per question; the session average and your fastest correct pick.
Correct-to-wrong ratio; which faces and which sequence lengths your errors gather on.
How accuracy changes as commands pile up; where the thread breaks when the sequence stretches.
A progress chart across sessions, the balance between the two channels and a personalised study recommendation.
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MollySpider is the spatial orientation module used in the SunExpress Mollymawk assessment. A spider moves across a three-dimensional structure built from many-faced cubes, steered by spoken commands. When the command sequence ends you mark which face of which cube the spider is on. What it measures is three-dimensional thinking, direction tracking and mental visualisation.
Turn only changes the direction the spider faces; it stays on the same surface. Move carries the spider to the neighbouring face, changing its position. Missing this distinction is the most common mistake: even after four Turn commands in a row, the spider is still on the same face.
Every command is relative to the spider’s point of view. “turn right” means the spider turns to its own right; “move right” means it steps onto the face on its right. The screen’s right and the spider’s right are usually not the same place, which is why you have to take the spider’s heading as the reference on every command.
Because you are looking at some faces of the cube from the front and others from behind. On the faces turned towards you (front, top, left) a right turn appears clockwise on screen; on the hidden faces (back, bottom, right) the same command runs counter-clockwise. The module tells you which face you are on with every turn command.
Yes, the module delivers the commands as speech. In the embedded preview on this page the audio is muted and the commands are written on screen; open the module on its own and the spoken flow starts. In the settings you can change the speech rate and the pause between commands.
Two things at once: the colour of the cube the spider is on (red, blue, green, orange) and which face it is on (front, back, left, right, top, bottom). You have 6 seconds for this. The face labels follow the arrow on the front face as their reference.
The arrow shows which face of the cube counts as “front”. When the structure rotates the arrow turns with it, and that is how you tell the six faces apart. Without the arrow there would be no way to name faces that look identical.
Easy has 1–3 cubes and 3–5 commands. Medium brings 2–3 cubes and 8–12 commands. On Hard the cube count rises to four, the commands run about 25% faster and the pause between them disappears — this is the closest you get to the pace of the real assessment.
Easy and Medium can be tried for free. Hard level requires PRO access. The interactive demo on this page is the module itself — you can try it without signing up.
What the module measures is carrying the sequence in your head and applying it to a surface. Getting used to taking notes does not survive the pace of the real assessment: the commands are spoken and arrive back to back, and while you write the next one goes past.
Yes. At the end of a session you see the number of correct and wrong answers, the hit rate, decision time per question with its average, and your score. When you answer wrong the module shows the correct position and replays the path step by step; seeing where the error started speeds up learning.
No. CADETPRO is an independent preparation platform; it has no affiliation, partnership or endorsement from any airline. Airline and test names on this page are used only in a preparation context, to state which exam is being studied for. No guarantee of passing or being hired is given.
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