Is it the cog or the knowledge test that guys are getting hung up on? Or are they both looked at combined?

 

I was wondering the same thing. I'm sure they are all looked at combined but those guys probably know what they struggled with.

 

would be interested to know as well

 

I know of a few pilots (one of whom I know well, and he's a smart dude who prepped hard) who have failed the cog and a couple others who have failed on knowledge.

IMO, the cog test is a less-controllable variable. The one guy I know well who failed the cog test thinks he knows exactly when it went downhill - he just got flustered and wasn't able to recover. He'll pass next time, I'm sure, but 6 months of seniority is 500 numbers! That's going to take a lot of banana peels to recover from.

The knowledge test is something you can prep for much more quantitatively. There are definitely "discriminator" questions out there, some of which I'm convinced are placed to be time sucks, to give you the opportunity to make the poor decision to spend 5 minutes on that question instead of skipping it and driving on. Yet though just about everybody studies their posteriors off, everybody also seems to walk out thinking there will be a semi-canine offspring around a few months later who looks vaguely like the guy they saw that morning in the mirror shaving.

Prep or stay home. Say what you want to about the interview process, but if nothing else it probably does a good job of screening out the lazy folk.

 

And my last 91/135 gig had zero days off per month (that is hard days off). You were to be on call 24/7 the only way you'd be guranteed a day off would be to take vacation - which you'd get after a year. This is also the same place that wanted me to sign a 4 year 40k contract for a Challanger 600 Initial. This comany has falsified records, offered to bribe the Feds, vandalized peoples aircraft, etc. to this day I have no idea how they're still in business.

 

Mr. Kraby said that there is a minimum score on all tests and a minimum score on the interview. If you pass them all, they will hire you. If you fail one, they will not offer you the job. The knowledge test question bank is 800 questions large, and some of the questions are harder than others. They know this, and the grading takes into account whether you missed a hard question or an easy question.

I could see how getting flustered would make the cognitive test snowball. I put the stylus down in between sections and made it a point to take a few deep breaths and try to relax before beginning the next section.

 

were those interns hired?

 

Does AK go by "Captain" or "Mr." or just ol' Arnie? Give him credit.. during one of the last great kurfluffles he was a ramp rat.

 

had a friend interview and get hired yesterday (3/11). They went 8/11. The 3 busts were one for COG, one for Knowledge test, and the other for HR and Testing.

 

I had no information on interns. It wasn't mentioned while we were there.