easyJet's cadet pipeline, long branded Generation easyJet, is one of Europe's most applied-to routes into the flight deck: a structured path through partner academies into a large, growing short-haul fleet. High application volume means an efficient, standardized filter at the front, and the trainable part of that filter is exactly what this site covers. This guide maps the reported stages for cadet and experienced-entry routes and the preparation each rewards.
What is the easyJet Pilot Assessment?
easyJet recruits cadets through its Generation easyJet programme, delivered with partner training organizations, historically CAE among them, and hires experienced pilots directly through its own selection. Cadet candidates commonly report a staged process: an online application, online aptitude and psychometric testing, and an assessment day combining interview, group exercise and further testing, with a simulator stage for experienced entries.
The reported aptitude instruments belong to the modern short-scale family: brief, timed, often adaptive tests of memory, arithmetic, reasoning, attention and multitasking of the kind described in our Aon cut-e guide, with configurations varying by intake and academy partner. Personality questionnaires and situational judgment items appear alongside the cognitive scales.
Aviation Aptitude is an independent training platform with no affiliation to easyJet or its training partners; stage descriptions are candidate-reported and the airline revises its programmes and partners over time.
Which Skills Does the Assessment Test?
The reported formats map onto our modules:
- Memory: sequence recall under time, as in the digit span test and visual memory test
- Numerical fluency: fast arithmetic and applied items, as in the mental arithmetic test and speed distance time test
- Reasoning: inductive and deductive scales, as in the number series test and logic and reasoning test
- Attention and multitasking: filtering and stacked tasks, as in the perceptual speed test and divided attention test
- Spatial ability: orientation items, as in the spatial orientation test
- Behavior: personality and situational judgment questionnaires, as discussed in our personality test guide, plus an observed group exercise on assessment day
How the Selection Runs
The funnel is front-loaded: online testing cuts the pool before human assessors get involved, so the remote sitting is effectively the entrance exam. Survivors are invited to an assessment day where the airline looks at the person behind the scores: a competency interview built around teamwork, decision-making and customer-mindset examples, a group planning task with observers, and in some intakes further supervised testing. Experienced-entry candidates add a simulator profile flown to standard operating procedures. Offers connect cadets to a partner academy slot, with medical certification in parallel.
The online sitting is the real exam; the assessment day is the airline checking the person behind the scores.
How to Prepare: Strategies That Actually Work
- Prepare before applying. The aptitude invitation often arrives quickly after application, and the short-scale format punishes cold sittings hardest. The 6 week study plan is the right shape; compress it rather than skip it.
- Train the sprint format. Instant starts, tight pacing, composure through the adaptive difficulty climb; the specifics are in our cut-e guide.
- Keep a daily arithmetic habit. Ten timed minutes daily moves the numerical scales more than any other single investment.
- Collect your stories in advance. The competency interview wants specific examples: a conflict resolved, a plan changed under pressure, a customer situation handled. Write six stories down before the day.
- Practice group-exercise behavior. Contribute early, build on others' ideas, watch the clock aloud; assessors score collaboration, not the brilliance of the plan.
- Answer questionnaires honestly. Situational judgment and personality items carry consistency logic, exactly as described in our personality guide.
Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Sitting the online tests unprepared "to see the format" when the format is documented and trainable.
- Rehearsing interview answers into scripts that collapse under one follow-up question.
- Dominating the group exercise; airlines staff crews, not contests.
- Ignoring the situational judgment component because it has no right answers; it has wrong patterns.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does the Generation easyJet programme cost?
The cadet route is typically self-funded through partner academies, with financing options varying by intake; treat any specific figure as time-limited and confirm with the academy.
What tests does easyJet use?
Candidates commonly report online batteries of the short-scale family, memory, arithmetic, reasoning, attention and multitasking, plus situational judgment and personality questionnaires, with configurations varying by intake.
How long does easyJet cadet selection take?
Reports typically describe a fast funnel: online tests shortly after application, then an assessment day, with outcomes within weeks rather than months.
Practice This Skill
Every cognitive format above has a timed module in the Aviation Aptitude app, with a free diagnostic to find your weak scales before easyJet does. Pair the training with our mistakes guide to keep the preparation efficient.