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The AOSB planning exercise asks for routes and timings, and the timings in your plan rest on arithmetic. The calculations any timed plan rests on, with worked examples and a back-planning calculator.

AOSB Planning Exercise Maths: Time, Speed and Distance

The AOSB Main Board is a four-day residential assessment at Westbury: tests, essay, interview, lecture, planning exercise and command tasks. The Army's programme, and the Main Board (Short) for PQOs.

AOSB Main Board: The Four Days, Test by Test

For regular officer candidates, AOSB Briefing is two days at Westbury: physical and practical exercises, and how to prepare for Main Board. For Army Reserve officer candidates it is a 24 hour session.

AOSB Briefing: What Happens Over the Two Days at Westbury

The AOSB planning exercise is a solo written paper, then a group discussion. What the Army's own candidate answer sheet asks for in each box, and how to fill it under time pressure.

AOSB Planning Exercise: The Official Answer Sheet, Box by Box

The Army Officer Selection Board (AOSB) is the assessment British Army officer applicants must pass before they can go to Sandhurst. It takes place at Westbury, Wiltshire, in two parts: AOSB Briefing and AOSB Main Board. For regular officer candidates, the Briefing lasts two days, over which candidates are assessed on physical and practical exercises and learn how to prepare for the Main Board; its programme includes psychometric tests, a group discussion, a practice planning exercise, an interview, practical and leaderless tasks and physical tests. For regular officer candidates, the Main Board, a residential assessment, lasts four days: psychometric tests, a short essay on current affairs, the multi-stage fitness test, outdoor group tasks, an interview, a five-minute lecture, a planning exercise (a solo written assessment followed by a group discussion; the open answer sheet covers aims, factors, options and your plan, which you are then asked to justify), command tasks in which candidates take turns to lead, an individual task course and a final group command task. Army Reserve officer candidates attend a 24 hour Briefing and are tested over 3 1/2 days at the Main Board. Professionally Qualified Officers (PQOs) will not normally attend Briefing; they attend a three-day Main Board (Short), which includes the preparation covered at Briefing. To join as an officer, the Army asks applicants to be between 18 and 29; higher age limits apply for specialists.

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Four planning exercises, worked to the minute

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Four AOSB planning exercises, worked to the minute

Four original scenarios in the shape the Army describes, each with a map, focused questions and a full model answer covering all six parts of the Army's answer sheet.

AOSB planning exercise practice: four original British Army officer selection planning exercises with maps and focused questions, and full model answers covering the answer sheet's six parts (problems, aims, resources and transport, options, plan, justification), plus a Briefing and Main Board reference.

The British Army officer selection planning exercise, practised on paper: the answer sheet method, four original scenarios with maps and focused questions, and full model answers worked to the minute, plus a one-page Briefing and Main Board reference.

AOSB Planning Exercise Practice — four exercises with model answers

The planning exercise is one AOSB test you can practise at home

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