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Originally Posted by pilot4500  I interviewed yesterday and I thought it was overall a dissapointing experience. I did not get hired. I took Wonderlic test as well as the Instrument test. I thought I did pretty well on both of them.
When they started doing the panel interviews they called me in and said that my interview was being discontinued because I did not score high enough on the Wonderlic test. It is a 50 question test and they give you 12 minutes to complete it. It is almost impossible to complete all of the questions in 12 minutes. I answered 35 questions total. They did not tell me what the minimum passing score was, or which ones I got wrong.
They suggested that I go online and try to take some practice Wonderlic tests. They then thanked me for taking the time to come to Indianapolis to interview and said that I could reapply in 6 months.
There were 7 of us that interviewed that day, and I know of at least 3 who did not score high enough on the Wonderlic test and were sent home.
The guy who went in ahead of me was an American Eagle FO, and he was also sent home because he did not do well enough on the Wonderlic test.
Republic seems like a great company to work for, but I think that sending someone home because they didn't score high enough on a test that has absolutely nothing to do with fly airplanes is rediculous!
There are other regionals out there and I will keep looking. For anyone that is planning to interview with Republic, I would strongly suggest that you do a google search on the Wonderlic test and become very familiar with it. People say that you can't study for it, but you can if you do some research. |
Sorry to hear that man. There is a trick to passing the Wonderlic test. Its basically an IQ test, and if you've ever taken a timed IQ test, then the objective is to move swiftly and answer only the questions that you know the answer to. Skip any question that requires you to take more then a few seconds to answer, or just quickly guess the answer.
For example, some of the questions require long division math. Unless you are a math genius, you'll end up wasting time doing the division when you could have been answering 5-6 of the easy questions. I forget how many questions you have to answer correctly, but you definitely have to move fast.
It isn't an aviation related test, but it tests critical thinking skills under pressure. Just another way they filter candidates. The best way to prepare for these is to take timed IQ tests. Goodluck getting on somewhere else, but I encourage you to reapply in 6 months and if offered a second interview, get some practice at those types of tests.