How to use this schedule
Two ideas drive this plan more than any single module choice. CBAT tests six different domains inside one sitting, so switching between task types is itself something worth practising. And short daily sessions spread across two weeks beat one long session the night before test day.
If you cannot start a full fourteen days out, compress the plan rather than skip Week 1 entirely — a shortened pass through every domain beats a full pass through only two or three.
- Keep most sessions short. Twenty to thirty minutes a day is enough to stay consistent without burning out before test day.
- Mix modules within a session once Week 2 starts. A real CBAT sitting never gives you a run of ten identical tasks in a row.
- Treat one rest day per week as part of the schedule, not a missed day.
Week 1: cover every domain once
The first week's job is breadth — touch each of CBAT's domains at least once in practice mode, before narrowing down to what actually needs work.
- Days 1–2, Reasoning: Airborne Numerical, Mathematics Reasoning, Numerical Operations. Speed, distance and time calculations underpin more of CBAT than they first appear to.
- Days 3–4, Spatial: Angles, Bearings & Degrees; Instrument Comprehension; Spatial Integration.
- Day 5, Multitask: Situational Awareness, Cognitive Updating, Colours, Letters & Numbers.
- Day 6, Attention & Psychomotor: Vigilance, Visual Search, Rapid Tracking.
- Day 7, Rest — or a short mixed review of whichever domain felt least familiar.
Week 2: return to what needs work, then rehearse the full thing
With every domain covered once, the second week spends more time on whichever tasks were hardest, and ends by rehearsing conditions closer to the real assessment.
- Days 8–10, Targeted practice: repeat the two or three modules that felt hardest in Week 1, ideally at a harder difficulty setting than you started on.
- Days 11–12, Assessment mode: run those same modules in assessment mode rather than practice mode — a fixed workload is the closer comparison to how CBAT itself is scored.
- Day 13, Full mock test: run a complete mock test in one sitting, to rehearse switching between every domain back-to-back the way the real assessment will ask you to.
- Day 14, Rest. Light review only — no new material this close to test day.
Adjusting the plan to your own schedule
This template assumes fourteen days and roughly five practice days a week. If your own timeline or availability is different, set it directly: Account Settings' training-schedule panel takes an assessment date, a training-days-per-week and a typical session length, and the dashboard's "Today's training" panel builds a session to that budget automatically rather than requiring this exact plan to be followed day by day.
What this schedule can't do
- It is a pacing template built from CBAT Academy's own module categories, not official RAF guidance on how to prepare.
- It cannot account for role-specific weighting, a compressed application timeline, or how much practice you have already done.
- Consistent practice improves familiarity and confidence with the task types. It cannot guarantee a specific outcome on the actual assessment.