Target Recognition Test
CBAT-style practice test · Multitasking
Splitting attention across four monitoring tasks and recognising matches without letting any one slip.
- Skill area
- Multitasking
- Length
- 23 minutes
- Format
- Real-time simulation
- Cost
- Free version, or Premium
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What this test involves
- The panels join one at a time. Light from the start, then Scan, then Scene, then System, and all get faster as the clock runs.
- Light: press MATCH when the panel lights match the target lights.
- Scan: press MATCH when the scan panel shows the same vehicle as the target.
- System: click the code from the list that matches the target code.
- Scene: every round gives you TWO orders at once, joined by AND. Click every shape matching either one, and nothing else. "Every Unknown" is one of the possible orders, the grey diamonds only count when you are actually asked for them.
How to prepare for the Target Recognition Test
- Sweep the tasks in a fixed loop rather than staring at one, a match you never look at is a miss.
- For the Scene, fix the order in mind (colour, then shape, then arrow) and reject anything that fails any one of them.
- Read both halves of the Scene order before you start clicking, because they are two separate hunts, and ignoring the second costs you half the round.
- Do not sweep up the grey Unknowns out of habit. They score only when "every Unknown" is one of your two orders, and are a miss otherwise.
- The number of targets changes every round, so there is no count to stop at. Sweep the whole scene.
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