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After lowering the standards so that 95% of people who took the test would pass.

Do you think that makes someone 5 times more likely to be a good ATC than having served as an ATC in the military, which would get you 3 points? Or infinitely better than being an …

The ATC academy can only handle ~1800 students per year. The issue is high failure rates at the academy and then at the facilities graduates are sent after graduation; increasing t…

Across 2023 and 2024 the en route academy pass rate was ~66% and terminal pass rate was ~73%. Of that, ~25% of en route trainees fail at their facility and ~15-20% of terminal trai…

> I.e the aptitude test battery is WORSE than the biodata scale. You're mistaken, it's the opposite. The first one found that AT-SAT performance was the best measure, with the biod…

> Performance on the AT-SAT is not job performance. No, but it was the best predictor of job performance and academy pass rate there was. https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA566825.p…

They decided that at least some amount was acceptable - the minimum score on the AT-SAT was changed so that 95% of test takers would pass because the original threshold where 60% p…