Comparative Study of Basic Cognitive Ability Tests for Student Pilots between High School and College Students

Objective:To compare the difference between high school students and college students on basic ability tests of Air force pilots selection.Methods:Using completely random design to compare the difference,720 pilots selection candidates were tested by 6 kinds of different basic ability tests,including Test of remembering meaningless graphics,Test of attention span,Test of attention convertion,Test of pattern recognition,Test of spatial cognitive ability,Test of range estimation ability.Results:In these tests of remembering meaningless graphics,attention span,attention convertion,pattern recognition,range estimation ability,high school students' score were better than college students',the difference was statistically significant(P0.05);but in the test of spatial cognitive ability,scores were not statistically significant(P0.05).Conclusions:In the basic cognitive level of memory,attention and observation,college students is better than high school students.But they are the same in three-dimensional space cognitive ability.The enrollment of college students could be expanded in the future.