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CFAT lets you know that Bloggins isn't good at math and has difficulty with patter matching, so probably shouldn't be a MMT. Remember, most of the folks you have met in the CAF were filtered through the CFAT; the folks who couldn't get through that gate you didn't see.

I think our more academic trades and occupations may need it, the CFAT. But I suspect most of what we do in the CAF can be learned with some formal training and then an OJT period. Without needing a CFAT level.

If that was the only issue (its never is the only issue, there is almost always more to the story) they could have gotten a waiver. I've done it multiple times for that exact same situation.

CFAT is predictive, not perfect. But properly employed it helps steer people to fields where, statistically speaking, they are more likely to succeed.

I mean if the CFAT was too terrifying a life in a military probably isn't for you. I am sure the world needs more scented candle entrepreneurs for the our weekend artisanal markets.

PSOs and TDOs did not decided to rush PRs through the system. PSOs and TDOs did not decide to remove the CFAT. PSOs and TDSOs executed orders from people at much higher ranks. MCpls whose original CFAT does not qualify for their desired officer occupation being told to redo the test is a...

My understanding is that an online, remote proctored CFAT was under development when the direction came from on high to cease.

My issue with CFAT is I have met someone who did a trade for a decade successfully (pre CFAT), but got out and when they went to go back in couldn’t get in the same trade because their CFAT score was too low. It could be leading to good potential troops being kept out of the military. Same...

Abandoning CFAT and other choices or open up recruitment to PRs... but not both. Both is now a perfect storm of shit.

Sounds like a new aptitude test will happen during BMQ from what i have read. I cant help but feel like we are wasting a lot of time, and money by doing fitness tests, CFATs etc now Basic instead of at recruiting. This isnt alleviating the bottle neck, its just moving it around

If the bins are empty... ;) No, but I get it. Also math is overrated. We all have calculators on our hips 24/7 now. Which incidentally fly's in the face of what I was told in school in the 80s and 90s. lol I am not sure that's always a glowing endorsement of the CFAT.

I will quibble that CFAT had run its course. If applicants were terrified of a test, well, then scaring them off was a net positive to the CAF.

Wasting thousands of dollars and precious time to train failures? CFAT is simple, short... And not the problem.

...infrastructure isn't as important as it once was. We barely do in person interviews anymore and the medical part 1 (of 2) is done in person. CFAT is still written after enrollment during basic training. It was killed as it was a barrier to entry for many people (and by barrier I mean...

Bullshit on PSOs and TDOs trying to water down the CAF. Direction to abandon CFAT and other dubious choices were made at rank levels well above them.

CFAT was only killed for certain applicants i thought? Any way we always have loss so increasing throughput will still increase the amount who get qualified proportionately

...push people through the recruiting system if it means meeting their targets instead of addressing anything else. Like making MCpls redo the CFAT when attempting to transfer to in demand officer positions. I have also seen TDOs read through the answer block verbatim as well as let people...

What's really needed is a specific type of CFAT to the trades you're applying.

The dangerous thing is we look at CFAT and forget that education requirements also create issues. For several years, and maybe even to this day, I didn't meet the requirements to be in my occupation. The idiots in charge back in the mid-00's decided that grade 12 math was a minimum requirement...

...makes it worth the cost, effort and time. Especially as now we are paying applicants for their mileage to come to in person meetings. I like CFAT because we got to talk to applicants before their interview and help them fix their paperwork or completely bonkers trade selection. But our...