Reasoning
Airborne NumericalPhone, tablet or desktop
The arithmetic is easy. Reading the route correctly is where this one actually gets hard.
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CFAST Practice Tests 2026
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Spatial
Angles, Bearings & DegreesPhone, tablet or desktop
The whole game is anchors: a handful of reference angles you compare everything else against.
Memory
Auditory CapacityDesktop or laptop required
Trying to do everything perfectly backfires here, especially on the tracking half, which isn't weighted as heavily as it feels like it should be.
Multitasking
Cognitive UpdatingDesktop recommended
Hold several aircraft systems in your head at once, and act on each before it drifts out of range — the Academy groups this under Strategic Task Management, alongside Situational Awareness.
Multitasking
Colours, Letters & NumbersPhone, tablet or desktop
Three unrelated rules, and no warning before the switch — the sole Central Information Processing task in the battery.
Memory
Digit RecognitionPhone, tablet or desktop
The string is gone before you've had time to plan how to remember it, which leaves almost no room for a slow start.
Spatial
Instrument ComprehensionPhone, tablet or desktop
The trap isn't any single gauge. It's letting one gauge's wording override what the rest of the panel actually shows.
Reasoning
Mathematics ReasoningPhone, tablet or desktop
Naming what you're actually solving for matters more here than the arithmetic itself does.
Reasoning
Numerical OperationsPhone, tablet or desktop
The maths is simple. Not letting one awkward problem break your rhythm is the actual challenge — this one is pure work rate.
Psychomotor
Rapid TrackingDesktop or laptop required
Lead the target. Chasing where it already was is what costs you here.
Psychomotor
Sensory Motor ApparatusDesktop or laptop required
Hands and feet work two axes at once here, and the trick is keeping one from overpowering the other.
Multitasking
Situational AwarenessPhone, tablet or desktop
Build a picture from several channels at once, and keep it current rather than just complete — the other half of Strategic Task Management, alongside Cognitive Updating.
Spatial
Spatial IntegrationPhone, tablet or desktop
Pick a fixed reference before you try to compare anything across views. Everything else here follows from that one habit.
Reasoning
System LogicPhone, tablet or desktop
Finding the right two facts fast beats reading everything on offer — one of the tasks the Academy groups under Symbolic Reasoning.
Reasoning
Table ReadingPhone, tablet or desktop
Never let the row slip while you're hunting for the column. That single habit is most of this task.
Multitasking
Target RecognitionPhone, tablet or desktop
Switch search rules cleanly — the moment one screen's rule bleeds into the next is where this one catches people out.
Spatial
Trace Test 1Phone, tablet or desktop
It looks like a reaction-time drill. It's actually a perspective problem.
Spatial
Trace Test 2Phone, tablet or desktop
What you remember afterward is what counts here, not what you watched while it was actually happening.
Attention
VigilancePhone, tablet or desktop
What happens to your attention over minutes, not seconds, is really the whole task here.
Attention
Visual SearchPhone, tablet or desktop
Picking the right feature to search for before you start beats searching harder once you've already begun.