ABF Officer Recruit Cognify case studies
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The ABF Officer Recruit Cognify is the game-based cognitive assessment battery used as part of the Australian Border Force's recruitment screening for officer recruits. It is not a knowledge test about customs, immigration or maritime law; it is an aptitude battery designed to estimate how quickly and accurately you process information, reason with numbers and words, hold and manipulate details in memory, spot patterns, and sustain attention on detailed visual material under mild time pressure. The ABF Officer Recruit Cognify case studies are 5 cases and about 3,111 words.
1Fuel Reserve on a Two-Leg Patrol
Your vessel must transit 90 nautical miles from base to a surveillance box, patrol on station, and return to base. Fuel capacity is 1,600 L.
615 words, about 3 min2Reading the Body-Worn Camera Instruction
Detachment standing instruction 4.2 reads: 'Recording shall be activated before arrival at any pre-planned tasking, and at the outset of any enforcement action. Recording may be paused only during an interruption in contact with the public during which no enforcement action is anticipated; any pause and resumption must be announced on camera.
604 words, about 3 min3Rotating a Search Pattern to Match the Drone's Heading
A search pattern for a small uncrewed aerial vehicle is stored as offsets in the aircraft's own frame, written as (forward, left) in metres from the launch point: W0 (0, 0); W1 (0, 6); W2 (8, 6); W3 (8, 0). The aircraft flies the waypoints in order and returns to W0, sweeping the rectangle they enclose.
561 words, about 3 min4Reconciling a Hand-Copied Boarding Log
You are the duty watchkeeper on a night shift. At 05:40 you must reconcile the boarding log, which an officer copied by hand onto paper after the tablet battery failed, against the electronic watchlist before handover at 06:00.
568 words, about 3 min5Two Units, Four Incidents
At 02:15 you command the overnight watch. Two units are available and no relief exists before the 06:00 handover.
763 words, about 4 min