Originally Posted by
Half wing
I remember someone saying to me the hogan was set, until a year or two ago, to eliminate 40% of the applicants. This person then said it has been changed to eliminate only 10% now. Don't now how true this is. I know you are essentially graded on or fall into a bell curve. The outliers get chopped and if you are in the middle you're good. With that in mind, and this goes against all sound advice on here, you should answer the questions like you think the average applicant will answer them. It worked for me. I think answering the questions honestly is a big mistake, especially if you are very polarized one way or another. They don't want the life of the party and they don't want a complete slam clicker. Just be somewhere in the middle. When they ask the questions about, "do you think the world or the government or the company are out to get you?", answer no.
I seriously doubt that they set any hard cut off requirements. The goal of these tests are to identify certain personality traits and job fitness characteristics.
I am sure that those are being fine tuned as they get more experience with what personality traits they see.
But I seriously doubt that they relax on the desirable traits as the talent pool shallows out. I suspect most airlines will rather go low time / ab-initio with desirable traits than getting experience with undesirable traits.