How to use this schedule
Use the Academy’s practice categories to try different skills before choosing a focus. This is a suggested routine, not an official RAF syllabus or a validated prescription for how much practice you need. Allow time to review errors as well as answer questions.
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. Switching between two different exercises gives you practice in reading a fresh set of instructions.
- Treat one rest day per week as part of the schedule, not a missed day.
Week 1: sample the main practice categories
The first week's job is breadth — sample reasoning, spatial, memory, multitasking, attention and psychomotor exercises, before narrowing down to what actually needs work.
- Days 1–2, Reasoning: Airborne Numerical worked examples, Mathematics Reasoning and Numerical Operations mental maths. Record whether each error came from choosing a method or carrying out the calculation.
- Days 3–4, Spatial: Angles, Bearings & Degrees; Instrument Comprehension; Spatial Integration.
- Day 5, Memory & Multitasking: Digit Recognition and Cognitive Updating. Try one short block of each and review missed updates.
- Day 6, Attention & Psychomotor: Vigilance, Visual Search and Rapid Tracking. Start with brief blocks rather than trying to master all three in one session.
- 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
After sampling the practice categories, 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, at the same settings first. Increase difficulty only when you can apply your chosen method consistently. Use the Table Reading examples if row or column slips are a recurring problem.
- Days 11–12, Assessment mode: if you have paid access, try a fixed-workload assessment and review the errors afterward. Otherwise, repeat a free practice block with the same settings and a consistent time budget; compare your own results, not official selection thresholds.
- Day 13, Full mock test: if you have access and sufficient time, try the Academy mock battery. A full battery can exceed the usual 20–30 minute budget, so reserve a longer session or replace it with two short free exercises. Academy results do not reproduce official scoring.
- Day 14, Rest. Light review only — no new material this close to test day.
Adjusting the plan to your own schedule
This template spans fourteen days with rest or light-review days built in. If your own timeline, service or availability is different, the preparation plan builder generates a personalized version of this automatically -- pick your assessment, your test date and how much time you have, and it builds a phase-by-phase plan immediately, no account required. Account Settings' training-schedule panel and the dashboard's "Today's training" panel use the same inputs to keep a signed-in account's plan up to date automatically.
Printable practice log and error-review checklist
Use one line per day to record the exercise, difficulty, time and correct answers out of attempts. Keep settings comparable when checking progress. The log is free and can be printed or saved as a PDF using your browser; no account is needed.
Open the printable 14-day practice log
- Name the error: for example, a missed sign, a missed table label, incorrect instrument reading or late response.
- Write a correction you can act on: “anchor the row before moving to the column” is more useful than “concentrate harder”.
- Choose the next drill: repeat a short block that uses that skill, then check whether the same error appears again.
Example entry: Table Reading, easy, 5 minutes, 8 correct out of 10 attempts. Error: missed a minus sign. Next drill: six untimed lookups, checking both labels and the sign of the answer. These illustrative numbers are not a readiness target.
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.