Multitasking and monitoring

About this practice suite

This suite prepares candidates for multitasking and monitoring selection in the aviation, aerospace, air traffic, and airports sector with 5 skill areas: attention and concentration, situational judgment, spatial reasoning, 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

• Attention and concentration — Sustained focus, selective attention, and accuracy under time pressure.
• Situational judgment — Evaluating workplace responses against role-relevant principles.
• Spatial reasoning — Rotation, folding, views, orientation, maps, and three-dimensional visualization.
• 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. What is the primary risk when monitoring automated systems for long periods without active tasks?

   • A. Increased accuracy on secondary paperwork
   • B. Improved detection of all signal types
   • C. Automatic elimination of false alarms
   • D. Vigilance decrement and missed rare alerts

2. You must read back a complex clearance while two conflict alerts appear on adjacent sectors. What is best?

   • A. Finish the readback while ignoring all alerts
   • B. Pause the readback, resolve or delegate the most imminent alert, then complete the clearance
   • C. Clear every alert without looking at traffic
   • D. Transfer all aircraft silently without coordination

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.