Military planning exercises

About this practice suite

This suite prepares candidates for military planning exercises selection in the military and defence sector with 4 skill areas: situational judgment, planning and scheduling exercises, critical thinking and numerical reasoning. Every question was written by Novus editors for this suite — none are taken from live or leaked exams — and the full bank holds 52 scored questions across three modes, plus 8 reserve questions used to vary repeat attempts. Answer keys never ship to the browser: your answers are scored server-side, and results stay on your device.

Skills this suite practises

• Situational judgment — Evaluating workplace responses against role-relevant principles.
• Planning and scheduling exercises — Resources, dependencies, deadlines, constraints, and contingency planning.
• Critical thinking — Evaluating evidence, assumptions, arguments, credibility, and alternative explanations.
• Numerical reasoning — Arithmetic, fractions, percentages, ratios, rates, estimation, word problems, and number relationships.

Sample questions from the guided bank

Two of the 10 guided-practice questions, shown exactly as they appear in a session. Answers and explanations are not printed here — keys stay on the server — so open guided practice to answer them and see how you did.

1. Your commander gives intent but few details. Planning starts in two hours. What is best?

   • A. Copy last year's plan without adaptation
   • B. Wait silently until every detail is provided
   • C. Develop multiple courses of action aligned to intent and identify information gaps
   • D. Present one course of action to save briefing time

2. What does METT-TC help planners analyze?

   • A. Mission, enemy, terrain, troops, time, and civil considerations
   • B. Maintenance, equipment, training, transport, and contracts only
   • C. Morale, ethics, tactics, technology, and communications alone
   • D. Medical, engineering, traffic, transit, and cargo schedules only

Practice modes and timing

Guided practice is untimed-feeling and instructional; the mini-test is a short timed check; the full simulation mirrors a complete sitting. All three draw on separate question sets, so moving up a mode never repeats what you practised.

Study outline

Read the study outline for this suite’s skills, timings, and recommended lessons on one printable page, or download its standalone HTML file. The printable page can also be saved as a PDF from your browser.