One compass, turned to an angle that is never one of the eight direction angles. Two things are drawn on it: a green arrow, whose direction you are asked for, and a dark circle holding one letter, which is the only place the dial tells you where anything is. Both are drawn into the same dial, so the angle between them never changes — and that single fact is the whole test: you start at the marker’s letter and count major ticks to the arrow, and the rotation never enters the answer. Eight directions, forty-five degrees apart, so the arrow is never more than four ticks away. Pick a mode below and play the real module.
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TestAir360: Compass
Independent preparation for the Compass test in the Wizz Air Pilot Academy selection process. One compass, turned to a random angle. A green arrow — its direction is the question. A dark circle with a single letter in it — your only reference, because the dial carries no direction letters of its own. Six options, mouse or keys 1–6. No question has a time limit; the session does, and how many questions you see is up to you.
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The dial turns.
The answer does not.
One fact decides how this test is played, and a candidate who works it out during the exam has already paid for the first questions: the rotation of the dial never enters the answer. The arrow and the marker sit inside the same rotating group, so the angle between them is fixed before the dial is ever turned. Everything else follows — why there is nothing to look for in the rotation, why mentally straightening the compass is the most expensive thing you can do, and why the whole test comes down to counting between one and four ticks. The five steps below are the order in which they are worth learning.
One dial, and only two things on it
The screen holds a single compass, turned to an angle picked at random. Two things are drawn on the face. The green arrow is what you are asked about — the answer is the direction its triangular tip points to, and its tail crosses the centre, which is the reason so many candidates answer the opposite direction. The dark circle with a letter in it is your only reference: the dial itself carries no direction letters, no numbers and no degree marks. What it does carry is 72 ticks, one every five degrees, eight of them drawn long — and those eight are the eight directions, forty-five degrees apart. Every answer sits on one of them.
Find it. Count it.
Do not turn it.
A heading indicator does not care which way you are sitting, and neither does a chart on the knee of a pilot in a turn. Reading direction from a reference that is not aligned with you is ordinary flight-deck work, and Compass is that stripped to one screen: one fixed reference, one thing to read, and a frame that is deliberately not straight. What is measured is not how well you know the eight points — it is whether you can take a bearing from a reference instead of from yourself, and keep doing it while a clock runs.
One letter names the dial. Nothing else does.
The dial has no compass rose. It carries 72 ticks and eight of them are drawn long, but not one of them is labelled: the only place the dial tells you where anything is, is the letter inside the dark circle. Everything on the screen is measured from that one letter, which is why the first move of a fluent candidate is always the same — read the marker before looking at the arrow at all.
Sixty-four angles, and not one of them leaks.
The dial is turned by a multiple of five degrees, and the eight direction angles are excluded from the list, so it never rests with a direction straight up. Work through the arithmetic and the consequence is exact: for every one of the sixty-four screen angles, all eight directions remain possible. Looking at where the arrow points on your screen eliminates nothing, so the time spent looking for a pattern is time taken from counting.
Zero to four ticks — and the mix is the difficulty.
Distance is the only axis of difficulty in this test, and the modes differ by nothing else. In HARD and EXAM the five distances are flat: one question in eight needs no counting at all, and one in eight is the direction straight across. EASY and MEDIUM deliberately weight the short ones, which is why a high EASY accuracy is not evidence of progress — the questions were shorter, not you faster.
A wrong answer is wrong in a particular way.
The module classifies every wrong answer by how far it landed from the arrow: one tick away, two or three away, or straight across. Those three classes have fixed chance levels, so your own mix can be read against them: an excess of one-tick errors is a miscount, an excess of straight-across errors means you are reading the tail of the arrow instead of the tip. A fourth measure runs alongside — how often a wrong answer was the marker’s own letter.
Let every session write your next study plan.
Every session you finish is broken down automatically, and in this module the single most useful panel is accuracy by tick distance. A Compass mistake is almost never general: it is a miscount at three ticks, or a tail-for-tip error on the straight-across questions, or the marker’s letter answered instead of the arrow’s. Those look identical in a single score and completely different here.
Accuracy by tick distance — the main diagnosis
Your accuracy at zero, one, two, three and four ticks, separately. Three patterns show up again and again: evenly low at every distance means the problem is not counting at all but reading the arrow tip or the marker letter; strong at zero and one but falling at three means the counting routine is there and slips on the long ones; weak only at four means the opposite pairs are not yet automatic.
Error classes, and the marker-echo axis
Every wrong answer is filed as one tick away, two or three away, or straight across — and separately, whether it was the marker’s own letter. Those chance levels are fixed and known, so the report compares your mix against them rather than against a target someone invented.
Accuracy by answer direction and by reference letter
The module records the arrow and the marker of every question, so accuracy can be split both ways. Candidates who count fluently clockwise and hesitate anticlockwise do not show a lower score — they show a lopsided one, and this is where that becomes visible.
Pace against accuracy, question by question
Time is recorded for every answer, so the report can show whether your correct answers were faster than your wrong ones, and where in the session your accuracy fell. Since no single question is timed, this is the panel that tells you whether to push the pace or hold it.
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What is the TestAir360: Compass test in the Wizz Air Pilot Academy selection process?
It is a spatial orientation test, and a question is as simple as a question gets: one compass, turned to a random angle, with a green arrow drawn on it and a dark circle holding a single direction letter. You are asked which direction the arrow points, and you choose from six letters with the mouse or the number keys 1 to 6. The dial carries no compass rose — 72 ticks, eight of them drawn long for the eight directions, and not one of them labelled — so the letter in the dark circle is the only reference you have. No single question is timed; the session is, and it runs from three to five minutes depending on the mode.
The dial is turned. Does that make the question harder?
Only if you let it. The arrow and the marker are drawn into the same rotating group, so turning the dial moves both of them by the same amount and the angle between them never changes. The same marker and the same arrow give the same answer at 5° and at 250°. What the rotation does is remove the habit you would otherwise lean on: there are 64 rotation values, every multiple of five degrees except the eight direction angles, so north is never straight up and the dial never looks like a map you have seen before. Candidates who try to straighten it mentally lose seconds on every question and gain nothing.
How do you actually work out the answer?
Read the letter inside the dark circle first, before you look at the arrow at all. Then count large ticks from that letter to the arrow — you may go either way round, and the rule for choosing is visual: count toward whichever side the arrow is nearer. On an eight-point circle the short way is never more than four ticks. Two mistakes live in that sentence. The marker’s own tick is zero, not one, so counting it as the first step shifts every answer by one direction. And the small ticks are not directions; only the eight long ones are.
Is there a shortcut — does the arrow’s angle on screen tell you anything?
No, and that is worth knowing so you stop looking. Because the rotation is always a multiple of five degrees and never a multiple of forty-five, the arrow’s angle on your screen is also never a multiple of forty-five — and the arithmetic works out so that for every one of the 64 possible screen angles, all eight directions are still possible. Not a single angle rules out a single direction. The options do not leak either: the correct answer lands in each of the six positions about equally often, and the marker’s own letter appears among the six in roughly three questions out of four, which makes seeing it there the normal case rather than a hint. Guessing blind wins one question in six.
How is it different from the other Wizz Air tests?
CADETPRO ships a module for each of them and they ask for different things. Deductive logical reasoning fills a cell so a grid obeys stated constraints. Inductive logical thinking and inductive logical reasoning classify figures against a hidden rule. Logical thinking asks which one object of nine breaks a rule. Abstract logical reasoning continues a transformation across a row of panels. Diagrammatic reasoning gives you a matrix with a hole in it. Numerical reasoning gives you a data panel and one claim about it. Verbal reasoning gives you prose and one statement. Cube folding asks which of four cubes a flat net makes. ADAPT is six kinds of thinking in one sitting, and ADAPT: FAST Multitasking runs four jobs at once for three minutes. TestAir360: Clocks takes the dials off the screen before you answer. Compass is the only one of them where the whole test is a single relationship between two marks on one dial.
Is the demo on this page the real module?
Yes. The player on this page loads the same build you get after purchase, straight from hub.cadetpro.com, and all four of its modes — EASY, MEDIUM, HARD and EXAM — open from the module’s own menu. EASY is the place to start, because it is the only mode with a feedback window: answer wrongly and the compass is drawn again with the eight direction labels shown, so you can see exactly where your count went astray. That window stops the session clock while it is open, so reading it properly costs you nothing.
What is the difference between the four modes?
Two things, and nothing else: how long the session runs, and how the tick distances are weighted. EASY runs 3:00 with the feedback window on; MEDIUM runs 4:00 with no feedback; HARD and EXAM both run 5:00, also with no feedback. EASY and MEDIUM deliberately serve more short distances — the average is about 1.4 ticks in EASY and 1.7 in MEDIUM — while HARD and EXAM use a flat distribution averaging 2.0, which makes HARD a genuine rehearsal for EXAM. That also means a high EASY accuracy is not evidence of progress: the questions were shorter, not you faster. The mode is mixed into the session seed, so the HARD run you have just finished is never the EXAM you sit next.
How is the score worked out, and how many questions should I aim for?
The score is simply your correct answers divided by your answered questions, as a percentage, rounded — there is no penalty term and no threshold. A question still open when the clock runs out is recorded but does not count as answered, so starting one in the last seconds costs nothing. How many questions you see is entirely up to you, because no single question is timed. The module moves on 280 ms after each answer, which sets the arithmetic: a 5:00 session fits about 56 questions at five seconds each, 70 at four, 91 at three, and 108 at two and a half. A sensible progression is accuracy first in EASY and MEDIUM, then 40 questions in HARD while holding accuracy above 90 percent, and only then pace.
Is this an official Wizz Air product?
No. CADETPRO is an independent preparation platform and has no affiliation with, endorsement from or partnership with Wizz Air or any assessment provider. The module reproduces the publicly described format of the test so you can practise it; it is not the assessment itself, and no result here guarantees any outcome in a real selection process.