info@cadetpro.com
English flag
English
Select a Language
English flag
English
Arabic flag
Arabic
Spanish flag
Spanish
0
TESTAIR360 SHORT-TERM MEMORY · SEEN ONCE · TYPED BACKWARDS

WIZZ AIR
TestAir360: Short-Term Memory

Independent preparation for the Short-Term Memory test in the Wizz Air Pilot Academy selection process. Coloured shapes appear one at a time, two seconds each, with no gap and no mask, and when the run ends you rebuild it in reverse — the last shape you saw goes in the first slot. Twelve rounds, sixty shapes, three attributes to hold on every one of them. There is no session clock, and every slot is scored on its own.

  • Phone, tablet & PC
  • Performance analytics
  • Mouse or touch
TESTAIR360 SHORT-TERM MEMORY / REAL MODULE DEMO Ready Open in a new tab
How it works

Watch, then rebuild it backwards. Shapes appear in the middle of the screen, one every two seconds, and there is nothing to click while they run. When the run ends a panel opens with one slot per shape and you fill each slot with three choices — shape, colour and fill. Slot 1 is the last shape you saw. The window is 15 + 2 × length seconds, so 21 s for three shapes and 29 s for seven, and you may fill the slots in any order you like. Every slot is scored separately, so a half-remembered run is still worth points. All four modes are open.

Loading the real module
Module logic

Hold the run.
Then turn it round.

The task is two jobs wearing one coat. The first is holding: seven shapes arrive at a fixed pace and each one carries three separate facts — shape, colour and fill. The second is transforming: reversing a run is not recall, it is rearranging something you are already struggling to keep. That second job is the one aviation testing is actually interested in, and it is why the sequence is never simply read back. The five steps below are the order in which they are worth learning.

Score
90
STEP 01

Twenty-four figures — and never a twenty-fifth

The whole stimulus set fits on one card: three shapes — square, triangle, circle — in four colours, each one either filled or drawn as an outline. That is twenty-four possible figures and no more, and nothing outside the set ever appears. Two things follow. First, recognition is worthless here: you are never asked what a figure is, only which of the twenty-four it was and where in the run it sat. Second, repeats are normal — every figure is drawn independently, so the same one can turn up twice in a run, and measured on the engine 62.0 % of seven-shape runs contain at least one repeat. A candidate who reads a repeat as their own mistake loses a slot to doubt. Chance is worth knowing as well: name a figure blind and all three attributes match on 1 of the 24 — 4.2 % of the time.

Live module
What it measures

Twenty-four shapes.
Sixty slots.

The stimulus space is deliberately tiny: three shapes, four colours, two fills — twenty-four possible figures and no more. Nothing new ever appears, which means this is not a test of recognition but of capacity and order. Underneath the score the module separates four different failures that look identical on a results page: forgetting a figure, getting the figure but losing its place, losing one attribute out of three, and skipping the reversal altogether.

01 / THE LOAD

Three facts per figure. Seven figures. One look.

A figure here is not one thing to remember, it is three: shape, colour and fill. A seven-shape run therefore asks you to hold twenty-one separate facts that arrived in fourteen seconds, with no gap and no mask between them and no way to see them again. That is the whole difficulty, and it is why a test built from three shapes and four colours is genuinely hard: the material is trivial, the quantity is not. Candidates who try to memorise pictures run out of room at five; the ones who get to seven are almost always encoding something shorter than a picture.

02 / THE REVERSAL

Holding the run is only half the job.

The sequence is never read back the way it arrived. Slot 1 takes the last figure you saw, so the run has to be turned round while it is still fading — a rearranging job stacked on top of a holding job, and that combination is what aviation testing is actually interested in. There is one flattering trap: the centre slot of an odd-length run is its own mirror. Across 36,000 rounds answered forwards on purpose not one scored zero — exactly one point 92.0 % of the time, three points 7.7 %. A single point is the floor of the trap, not a sign of understanding.

03 / THE STEP

The runs get longer as the window gets shorter.

The rounds are not shuffled: every mode starts with its shortest runs and ends with its longest, so the load rises exactly as fatigue does. Between modes the two dials move against each other — EASY is 33 shapes with five extra seconds on every window and no seven-shape run at all, HARD is 76 shapes with the three-shape runs removed and four seconds taken off. Reduced to one number, that is 7.45 s per shape in EASY against 3.74 in HARD. All four modes are open, so the honest preparation order is to make seven-shape runs routine in MEDIUM before HARD makes them the majority.

04 / THE SLOT

Partial credit changes what a guess is worth.

Each slot is scored on its own and all three attributes have to match, so a half-remembered run still earns points and nothing is deducted for being wrong. That makes one habit free: never leave a row empty. A blank scores exactly what a wrong guess scores, while a blind guess is right 4.2 % of the time — and a partial memory is worth far more than that, because picked at random the shape is wrong 66.7 %, the colour 75.0 % and the fill 50.0 % of the time. Remembering “something red and hollow” is not nothing; leaving the row blank is.

Included with PRO

Twelve rounds. Nine things recorded about each one.

A score out of a hundred tells you almost nothing about what to practise. The module records considerably more, and it records it per round: how long the run was, the exact sequence it showed, the answer it wanted, every slot you entered, how many of them were right, how long the window was, how long you actually used and whether the window ran out on you. Because your entries are kept slot by slot, the report can separate failures that look identical on a score line — a figure you never encoded, a figure you encoded but placed in the wrong slot, and a figure you got two thirds right.

01

Accuracy by run length — the line that matters

Three-, five- and seven-shape runs scored apart. Nearly everyone is close to perfect at three, so the only useful question is where your ceiling actually falls. In MEDIUM that is 12 slots of three, 20 of five and 28 of seven, and the shape of the drop between them is your real result.

02

What kind of loss it was

Your entries are stored slot by slot against the answer, so the module can name the failure rather than just count it: the right figure in the wrong slot, one attribute missed, two, all three, or nothing entered. Order shifts alone happen by chance 7.8 % of the time at three shapes and 21.6 % at seven, so a run of them is a signal, not bad luck.

03

Perfect rounds, counted separately

The payload carries a perfect-round count as well as a total. A score of 90 made of steady near-misses and the same score made of flawless short runs plus a collapse on the long ones are different problems, and they need different practice.

04

Time used against the window

There is no session clock in this module, so time is never lost directly — but the window you were given and the time you actually used are both recorded per round, along with whether it ran out. Running the window down on a three-shape run is the earliest warning sign there is.

Choose PRO access — unlock your report →Detailed performance analysis is included in every access plan.
VERIFIED REVIEWS

No reviews yet.

This module has just been published. Verified reviews from CADETPRO students appear here automatically as they come in — we do not write them ourselves and we do not display placeholder ratings.

0reviews
average
0negative

CADETPRO course data — real student reviews, read live from the course record. Names shortened for privacy.

Support

Frequently Asked Questions

For anything not covered here, get in touch:

info@cadetpro.com →
What is the TestAir360: Short-Term Memory test in the Wizz Air Pilot Academy selection process?

It is a visual memory test with a twist in it. Coloured shapes appear in the middle of the screen one at a time, two seconds each, with no gap and no mask between them, and there is nothing to do while they run. When the run ends a panel opens with one row per shape and you rebuild the sequence in reverse — the last figure you saw goes in slot 1. Each row asks for three things: shape, colour and fill. Runs are three, five or seven shapes long, and a full session is 12 rounds and 60 shapes in MEDIUM. What is being measured is not recognition — there are only 24 possible figures and you see them all in the first minute — but how much you can hold and how well you can reorder it while holding it.

Is there a time limit?

There is no session clock anywhere in this module: the header counts rounds, not seconds. The one countdown is the answer window, and it is a fixed formula — 15 + 2 × the length of the run, so 21 s for a three-shape run, 25 s for five and 29 s for seven. EASY adds five seconds to every window and HARD takes four away. The shapes themselves are not part of that window; they are always two seconds each on top of it.

Which keys does it use?

None in particular, and that is worth knowing before you sit down. This module has no keyboard shortcuts at all — no answer keys, no hotkey to submit, and nothing at all to press while the shapes are running. Every control is an ordinary form control: two dropdowns and an Empty / Full pair per row, plus a Submit Answer button. That means Tab, the arrow keys, Enter and Space all behave the way they do in any web form, and a mouse or a touchscreen is the natural input. During the memorise phase there is nothing on screen to press at all.

How is the score worked out?

Correct slots divided by total slots, times a hundred, rounded — nothing else. A slot counts only when all three of shape, colour and fill match, but each slot is judged on its own, so a half-remembered run still earns points. Over MEDIUM’s 60 slots that means 59 correct is 98, 54 is 90 and 30 is 50. Two consequences follow. Nothing is deducted for a wrong answer, and a blank scores exactly what a wrong guess scores — so there is never a reason to leave a row empty. A blind guess is right 4.2 % of the time; a partial memory is worth much more than that.

What are the four modes, and which of them can I try here?

All four are open in the demo on this page — there is no locked half in this module. EASY is 9 rounds and 33 shapes (6x3 + 3x5) with five extra seconds on every window and a card naming what you missed after any round that was not perfect; it never shows a seven-shape run. MEDIUM is 12 rounds and 60 shapes in an even 4x3 + 4x5 + 4x7 split with no help. HARD removes the three-shape runs altogether (4x5 + 8x7), pushes the total to 76 shapes and cuts four seconds off every window. EXAM is not a fifth difficulty — it repeats MEDIUM exactly, round for round. The one number that captures the ladder is seconds per shape: 7.45 in EASY, 5.00 in MEDIUM, 3.74 in HARD.

Why does the sequence have to be entered backwards?

Because reading a list back in order is recall, and reversing it is recall plus a transformation — you have to rearrange something you are already struggling to keep. That second job is the one this kind of testing is interested in, which is why the sequence is never simply read back. There is one trap in the rule and it flatters you: the centre slot of an odd-length run is its own mirror, so writing the run forwards still scores at least one point. Measured on 36,000 rounds answered forwards on purpose, not one scored zero: exactly one point in 92.0 % of them, three points in 7.7 %, and 496 runs happened to read the same in both directions. A single point is the floor of the trap, not evidence that you did the task.

Can the same figure appear twice in one run?

Yes, and it is common rather than exceptional. Each figure is drawn independently from the same pool of twenty-four, so nothing prevents a repeat — measured across the engine, 62.0 % of seven-shape runs contain at least one repeat. This matters because candidates who assume every figure is distinct read a repeat as their own mistake and lose a slot to doubt. If you see the same red hollow triangle twice, you almost certainly did.

What happens if the window runs out before I have filled every row?

Whatever you have entered is submitted, and the rows you did fill are scored normally. Running out is recorded on the round, but it costs nothing beyond the rows you left empty — there is no extra penalty for a timeout. The same is true in the other direction: Submit Answer stays live the whole time, even with every row blank, so you can send an unfinished round deliberately rather than sit and watch the bar. Given that a blank scores nothing and a guess is free, the right habit is to fill every row before you submit, partial memory included — picked at random the shape is wrong 66.7 %, the colour 75.0 % and the fill 50.0 % of the time, so anything you half-remember shortens those odds.

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, and all four modes are open in it. What PRO adds here is the detailed performance analysis after each round — accuracy by run length, the kind of loss on each slot, perfect rounds, time used against the window — 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.

Wizz Air TestAir360: Short-Term Memory PROWizz Air TestAir360: Short-Term Memory prep module · 30-day access · 199 TL
BUY NOW
30-day access199 TL
Select plan