ROYAL NAVY DEFENCE APTITUDE ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
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ROYAL NAVY DEFENCE APTITUDE ASSESSMENT: PRACTICE TESTS FOR THE ROYAL NAVY SELECTION PROCESS
Learn how to pass your Royal Navy DAA with this comprehensive NEW testing download guide. Packed full of sample questions, this ultimate guide will guarantee to improve your chances and enhance your performance.
✔ Mechanical Comprehension test questions and answers;
✔ Numerical Reasoning test questions and answers;
✔ Verbal Reasoning test questions and answers;
✔ Spatial Reasoning test questions and answers;
✔ Electrical Comprehension test questions and answers;
✔ Work Rate test questions and answers;
✔ Insider tips on how to easily pass the DAA.
The Royal Navy – What they are looking for during the selection
Before we tell you more about how our resource will help you to pass the Royal Navy DAA, let’s first recap on what the navy are looking for in successful candidates:
The selection tests to join the Armed Forces are carefully designed in order to assess the key skills, qualities and personality that is required for a challenging, yet deeply rewarding career. It takes a special person to show the correct determination, will-power, fortitude and charisma for a job in the Armed Forces. Ultimately, this career path is not just a profession, it is a life choice. A life choice that you will need to embed into your daily routine.
A job in the royal Navy comes with great responsibility. Responsibilities that not only effect you, but your fellow colleagues, your family, and even your country. You will be responsible for upholding and maintaining security, protection and assistance to:
- Protect and safeguarding procedures are carried out to guard our economy.
- Prevent conflict from arising, particularly overseas.
- Provide security for home and international waters to maintain stability and prosperities of British economy.
- Maintaining a ‘state of readiness’ to protect and fight for our country when required.
- Provides response when disaster strikes in order to aid humanitarian conditions.
In times of conflict, chaos and disruption, the Royal Navy plays a significant role in implementing safeguarding procedures that provides prosperity and stability for British economy. It takes a well-grounded person to understand the extent of challenges that come with a job in the Naval Service.
Considering a career in the Naval Service is the first step of changing your life forever. You need to fully grasp what is required for a person who wishes to pursue a career in the Armed Forces. You should not enter this decision lightly, you need to take the time to form a solid conclusion based on logical reasoning and thought processes.
In order to give you a better understanding of the type of person the Royal Navy is looking for, here are a list of some of the qualities and skills required to join the Armed Forces.
Remember, this list is not extensive. There are many other skills and qualities that recruiters look for in potential employees. Depending on the job position for which are applying, will depend on what skills are valued the most.
THE ROYAL NAVY DEFENCE APTITUDE ASSESSMENT (DAA) CONSISTS OF 6 TIMED MULTIPLE-CHOICE APTITUDE TESTS AS FOLLOWS:
VERBAL REASONING TEST
The VERBAL REASONING TEST will determine how effectively you can interpret written information. You will have to answer 20 questions in a 15-minute time period.
Numerical Test
During the NUMERICAL TEST, which assesses how well you interpret numerical data, you will be required to answer 12 questions in 4 minutes and also 15 questions in 11 minutes. This is because there are two parts to the test. The two tests include charts, graphs and tables and also fractions, decimals and percentages.
WORK RATE TEST
The WORK RATE TEST is utilised to see how fast you can work and also how accurate your work is. When working in the RAF you will be working with sophisticated equipment and it is essential that you can work quickly and safely. During this test you will have 4 minutes to answer 20 questions.
MECHANICAL COMPREHENSION
Mechanical Comprehension tests are an assessment that measures an individual’s ability to understand mechanical concepts. The tests are usually multiple-choice in nature and present simple, frequently encountered mechanisms and technical situations. The majority of Mechanical Comprehension tests require a working knowledge of basic mechanical operations and the application of physical laws.
THE TESTS AND COMPLETION TIMES
Verbal Reasoning
(20 questions, to be completed in 15 minutes)
Numerical Reasoning
(27 questions, to be completed in 15 minutes)
Spatial Reasoning
(10 questions, to be completed in 4 minutes)
Mechanical Comprehension
(20 questions, to be completed in 10 minutes)
Electrical Comprehension
(21 questions, to be completed in 11 minutes)
Work Rate Test
(20 questions, to be completed in 4 minutes)
The only way to prepare for your Royal Navy Defence Aptitude Assessment is simply through practising. We have provided you with the ultimate guide that will allow you to practice 100s of sample questions in each specific area of the assessment.
Below, we have illustrated the types of questions that can be found in our guide, which will be similar to those found on your DAA assessment. Take the time to look at these examples.
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- Up-to-date and relevant for the 2025 selection tests.
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Sample Royal Navy DAA Questions
To help you get a better understanding of the Royal Navy recruiting test, let’s take a quick look at a few sample questions.
NUMERICAL REASONING
Numerical reasoning skills are assessed to determine a candidate’s ability to process numbers and data and perform mathematical calculations.
EXAMPLE
If a woman walks for 6 hours at a pace of 4km/h, how far will she have walked?
A. 20km
B. 21km
C. 22km
D. 23km
E. 24km
EXPLANATION
ANSWER = E, 24km. To work this answer out all you need to do is multiply the 6 hours by the 4 km/h to reach the total of 24 km. Remember that she is walking at a pace of 4 km per hour for a total of 6 hours.
VERBAL REASONING
Verbal Reasoning is the ability to analyse and comprehend information. The Navy selection process uses this form of aptitude test as a way of measuring candidates’ ability to read through information and ‘pick out’ key information.
EXAMPLE
Read the following passage and answer the related question.
Although there is not a clear cause for abdominal pain in children, it may be a symptom of emotional disturbance, especially where it appears in conjunction with phobias or sleep disorders such as nightmares or sleep- walking.
It may also be linked to eating habits: a study carried out in the USA found that children with pain tended to be fussier about what and how much they ate, and to have over-anxious parents who spent a considerable amount of time trying to persuade them to eat.
Although abdominal pain had previously been linked to excessive milk-drinking, this research found that children with pain drank rather less milk than those in the control group.
Question 1: Abdominal pain in children is caused by eating too much?
A. True
B. False
C. Impossible to Say
ANSWER = C = Impossible to Say
EXPLANATION
The passage does not state whether or not abdominal pain is caused by eating too much, therefore this must be considered ‘Impossible to Say’
SPATIAL REASONING
The Spatial Reasoning part of your Royal Navy DAA is to assess a candidate’s ability to visualise movement or rotation of shapes and visual images:
EXAMPLE
EXPLANATION: If you stack the shapes correctly as per letters on the middle shape, the shape on the right hand side will sit directly on top of the middle shape, whereas the triangular shape on the left hand side will sit up against the ‘B’ side of the middle shape, this forms the answer B.
ANSWER: B is the correct answer.
MECHANICAL COMPREHENSION
Mechanical Comprehension tests are an assessment that measures an individual’s ability to understand mechanical concepts. The tests are usually multiple-choice in nature and present simple, frequently encountered mechanisms and technical situations. The majority of Mechanical Comprehension tests require a working knowledge of basic mechanical operations and the application of physical laws.
EXAMPLE
A lever consists of a bar which is balanced on a fixed point, known as the fulcrum. If you needed to lift the weight, you need to work out how to calculate the force needed.
EXPLANATION
F = (weight x distance from fulcrum to weight) ÷ distance from fulcrum to point where force is being applied.
F = (80 x 9) ÷ 12
F = 720 ÷ 12
F = 60 lbs
ANSWER = 60 lbs
ELECTRICAL COMPREHENSION
What is the voltage across the battery?
A. 3.5V
B. 12.25V
C. 7V
D. 1.25V
C = 7V
The circuit contains two elements that share the voltage. Therefore, the overall voltage of the battery is as follows: 3.5 + 3.5 = 7V.
WORK RATE TEST
During the DAA, you will be required to undertake a Work Rate Test. This form of test assesses your ability to work quickly and accurately whilst carrying out routine tasks;
QUESTION 1: Which of the answers below is an alternative to the code 4H9?
ANSWER: D is the correct answer. (Red square original code. Green circle alternate code from same column.
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