Every change worth noticing, dated. Mostly this is where to look when a score moves and you are not sure whether you improved or we did.
Nearly all of it comes from candidates writing in. If something looks wrong, or a test behaves in a way the real one does not, tell us and it will end up on this page.
Fixed
Trace Test 1 no longer charges you for answering just after a handover
The aircraft you are tracking hands the red marker to a different one every few seconds. If it manoeuvred just before that happened and you answered a moment later, your answer was checked against the new aircraft, which had not done anything yet, and you were charged for pressing at nothing.
It also meant your pace affected your score in a way it never should have. The handover now waits for the answering window to close, so the situation cannot arise. Answer at whatever pace you actually read the attitude.
This moved scores. Your Trace Test 1 scores were lower than they should have been, so your next run may be several marks higher without you having done anything differently.
Leaving one test for another left the first one still running in the background. Eventually the browser gave up and showed an error page instead of the test you asked for.
It also affected coming back to a test after your laptop had slept or the tab had been in the background for a while.
Fixed
Your account data page is much lighter, and a proper page when something fails
The page that shows everything held about your account was sending far more than it needed to, and could fail to load on a phone. It now sends what it shows, and the complete record is still one click away as a downloadable file.
When something does go wrong anywhere on the site you now get a proper page with a Try again button, rather than a blank white error.
Changed
Premium is now a fixed number of days
A month used to mean a calendar month, so the same plan at the same price was 30 days bought in September, 31 in January and 28 in February. Nothing you did decided that.
Every plan is now a fixed length whenever you buy it: 31 days, 93 days or 186 days. Everyone who had already bought was topped up to the new length.
Fixed
The Scores page no longer flickers on arrival
Dates and times were worked out on our server, which keeps UTC, and then again in your browser, which keeps your own time. The two disagreed and the page was thrown away and redrawn.
Anything that depends on your local time now waits for your browser, so a run sat at nine in the morning says nine in the morning wherever you are.
New
Pages for the RAF CBAT and for CFAST in Canada
The same battery is used outside Australia under other names. There are now pages for the Computer Based Aptitude Tests at OASC Cranwell, and for the Canadian Forces Aircrew Selection Test at 8 Wing Trenton, including which of our tests matches which of theirs.
Changed
Situational Awareness is now the Situational Awareness Test, SAT
That is what candidates call it, and it is the name the Canadian Forces use in their own published subtest list. Nothing about the test changed and no scores moved.
The Airborne Numerical Test can now ask you to work out the speed
Until now the speed was always handed to you: read the parcel weight, divide by a hundred. About one question in ten now gives you a departure and an arrival time with the weight withheld, so you work the speed out from the distance and the minutes flown.
Reported by a candidate who had sat the real paper and met it there.
This moved scores. The mix of questions changed, so scores from before this are kept separately rather than compared with new ones.
The Dynamic Projection Test could be steered with the arrow keys alone. A turn now needs a figure typed first, which is how the real one is flown, and the page that teaches the controls was rewritten to match.
Directions and Distances now names the shortcut: every straight line answer comes from one of five triangles scaled up, so no question needs a square root worked out in your head.
A score can read over 100% and still sit in the Developing band. The results card now says when accuracy is what is holding the band back, instead of showing two numbers that look like they disagree.
If a test does something the real one does not, we would rather hear it than not. Several of the entries above exist because somebody sitting selection took two minutes to say so.
