Train dispatcher multitasking
Route decisions under rules combined with fast, rule-bound reactions
Set routes for trains at a junction while warning lamps flash up, each needing the right reaction within three seconds, faster as the test goes on. The rules stay on screen; lamp tones are described in text. Ten minutes. German dispatcher selection is described as a battery of attention, reaction and multitasking tasks, but its content is not published; this practises route decisions and quick reactions together.
Free run: the first 20 questions
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Before you start
- 122 seconds, no breaks. Events arrive faster as the test goes on.
- Each card has a time bar. Answer it by the rules before the bar runs out; a wrong decision and a time-out cost the same mark.
- Click an option, or use the keys: 1 2 3 4 answer the oldest card in Panel; Q W E answer the oldest card in Alarms & calls.
- The rules stay on screen throughout - you do not need to learn them first.
- Leaving this tab voids the attempt.