Sample Questions

PERSONAL

• Why do you want to become a pilot?
• Have you discussed your decision to join the ADF with your family? How do they feel?
• What would your parents say about you?
• What kind of person are you?
• Who do you admire most (someone you would use as a role model)? What do you admire most about them?
• What would your partner/spouse say is your greatest fault?

GENERAL ADF QUESTIONS

• What do you have to offer to the ADF?
• Why do you want to join the ADF?
• What can you tell us about the ADF?
• What do you find appealing about becoming an officer?
• If you are not successful, what will you do?

AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE ACADEMY

• What and where is ADFA?
• What degree would you undertake and why?
• What is Common military training?
• What is Single service training?
• Explain a typical day at ADFA?

 

DOWNLOADABLE SAMPLES

• 2 day ADF recruitment process
• ADF General Aptitude guidelines
• Airline Testing Examples

These tests provides a measure of your general reasoning and problem solving ability. It contains questions covering arithmetic problems, number series, word meanings and verbal classification, coding tasks, and patterns. A brief introduction is given below. Far more examples are provided under Aptitude Tests Link.

 

ARITHMETIC QUESTIONS

1. What is the value of X and Y in the following addition problem:

36 + 9X = 1Y2

Answer 1: 36+96=132, X=6, Y=3

2. How many apples, each costing 25 cents, can you buy for four dollars and twenty five cents?

Answer 2: 17