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Vigilance Test

CBAT-style practice test · Perceptual

Sustained attention and fast coordinate entry while priority tasks interrupt you.

Skill area
Perceptual
Length
7 minutes
Format
Real-time simulation
Cost
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What this test involves

  • Clear stars by typing the row, then the column.
  • Yellow stars are priority: worth 3 points, and they expire.
  • White stars are worth 1 point and will wait for you.

How to prepare for the Vigilance Test

  • Work a row or a column at a time. A systematic sweep beats hunting, and the digits come out faster.
  • Break the sweep for yellow stars every time. Three points now beats one point later.
  • Edge cells are quickest because you need fewer glances at the labels to be sure of the coordinate.
▸What has changed in this test (1)· last on 11 Oct 2026
Fixed

The Vigilance debrief was blaming the wrong half of the test

After a Vigilance run the debrief splits your work in two: the coordinates you typed, and the priority alerts that interrupt them. The whole point of that split is to tell you which of the two you were letting slip. It was telling you the wrong one.

Priority alerts were shown as though you had never missed one, on every run anybody has ever done. The ones you did miss were being counted against your coordinate entry instead, and every priority star you caught was being counted twice. So if priority alerts were your weak spot, the debrief said you had caught all of them and that your typing was the problem.

Both rows now count what they say they count. Your score, your band and the test itself are completely unaffected — this was only ever the summary afterwards, and the numbers it was adding up were already recorded correctly.

Runs you have already saved keep the old summary. We have not gone back and rewritten them; only runs from here on will show the corrected split.

Every change to every test is at what has changed. If this test does something the real one does not, tell us.

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