Military preparation pathway finder
Find the right official source and free preparation steps for your chosen role, stage and priority, with a source-linked, printable and downloadable local checklist.
Find your route ↗ A practical, independent preparation toolkit Free military preparation
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Learn, calculate and explore. Practise reasoning, interpret test results, understand running splits and investigate official recruitment data—entirely free, with original functionality rather than another downloadable PDF.
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No email gate, no paid upgrade required, no misleading "chance of selection" score. Choose what you genuinely need to practise or understand.
Military preparation action board
Track official-source reading, independent general practice and administrative next steps by military route. Check off actions, save only on your device if you opt in, or download a file.
Build my action board ↗AOSB planning exercise practice
Work through original civilian planning scenarios, check arithmetic and structure aims, factors, options and a contingency.
Practise planning ↗AOSB interview and lecturette rehearsal
Practise authentic stories and civilian public-speaking exercises with optional two- and five-minute timers, private notes and an offline worksheet.
Rehearse interview skills ↗Military fitness requirements by role
Explore verified individual fitness components, including Army officer MSFT, strength and medicine-ball assessments.
Explore requirements ↗Army Cognitive Test practice
27 original numerical, verbal, logical and pattern questions, plus fresh generated arithmetic drills, instant explanations and review.
Practise Army reasoning ↗RAF DAA practice
Six publicly named RAF aptitude areas, with independent examples covering verbal, numerical, work rate, spatial, electrical and mechanical reasoning.
Practise RAF aptitude ↗7-, 14- or 28-day aptitude revision planner
Build an independent ACT or DAA-focused study timetable, rotate general reasoning topics, revisit explanations and keep progress privately on your device.
Build revision plan ↗Army 2km run pace calculator
Convert an entered 2km time into even 200m/400m splits, minutes per km, speed and selected role-specific official reference comparisons.
Calculate running splits ↗Bleep test level calculator
Correctly interpret 6.6, 6.10 and 7.10 as level-and-shuttle values and compare a self-reported score against appropriate published benchmarks.
Compare a bleep result ↗UK Armed Forces recruitment data
Explore published 2025–26 Regular and Volunteer Reserve personnel, view Army/RAF/Navy applications separately and download clearly labelled official-data CSV.
Explore official data ↗New: Build a military aptitude revision timetable ↗ or practise AOSB communication with 20 original prompts ↗. Both work in-browser, without recording voices or sending applicant answers.
Also free: Create a personal preparation action board ↗ for your chosen route. It is free, browser-only and requires no registration.
Research: Explore the Military Recruitment Intelligence Library ↗ for the 2000–2023 official historical annual-mean series, separate 2017–2026 July strength snapshots, seven annual recruitment/voluntary-outflow windows, source revisions and downloadable MOD research.
Why these tools are independent
Military recruitment is not a video-game high score. Different Armed Forces roles have different assessments, and published test formats change. Our free fitness and aptitude tools are designed to make a narrow comparison or practise an ordinary thinking skill—not issue a military recruitment decision or copy protected official exams.
The Army describes the official ACT (Verifier) as five computer-based tests; the RAF publishes its own DAA familiarisation covering six aptitude areas. Our practice problems are independently written and do not imitate an official scoring scale. The exercises and your answers remain in your browser during the session.
Our fitness calculators use transparent arithmetic and role-specific published references; they deliberately avoid generating a false 20m bleep-test distance from unverified audio protocols. The recruitment statistics explorer uses dated MoD public data, with caveats against treating applications as unique applicants or acceptance rates.
For official decisions, always follow current recruitment instructions and appropriate professional safety advice. Read our editorial and data verification policy.
Want to explore a military pathway?
Start with the Army, Navy, RAF or Royal Marines route comparison to establish which assessment actually applies, then use the appropriate tool. A soldier 2km run and an officer bleep-test requirement are not interchangeable.