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| | HR Director |      |      |      |  The test that I had was a mixture of numerical and verbal reasoning questions. the numerical questions were very complex and I left most of them to concentrate on the verbal ones. The numerical ones involved series of fractions and the answers were related to the largest / smallest, adding and subtracting etc. Although I had worked through all the numerical reasoning tests I was not up to speed on the methods used to work out the answers quickly and accurately. I therefore concentrated on the verbal reasoning aspects. The test was to look at two words then choose one word out of a further four that could be connnected to both the former two. Although I got the practice test wrong(!!) I did well on that aspect of the test and, overall, was marked in the 70 percentile against a graduate population. The assessor said my result equated to a 2.1 or 1st class degree level, which was good as I don't have a degree!). I also underwent Firo-B and three other comparatively short tests and, in total, four hours of psychological examination (the company carrying this out was YSC in London). Although the tests that you supplied were quite challenging, having not done that sort of thing for a long time, I am sure that my mind was better prepared for the real testing than it might otherwise have been if for no other reason that the practice enabled me not to get too worried about tests and also to practice the mental state to be in - concentrating, time awareness, careful. I enjoyed doing the inductive reasoning practice tests but, perhaps unfortunaelty, I didn't get a chance to have a real test in that area. I would certainly recommend your services which I consider to be good value for money. And... I got the job!! |
| ?? | Accountant |      |      | |  My tests were a great deal more complicated & much more time pressured |
| A large oil company | Engineer |      |      | |  My real tests were a bit longer than yours but I scored very high and I got the job. |
| ABC | EMBA |      |      |      | 
All these tests had option of going back - however during actual test - the institute did not give this option !! I suggest you should build in this feature of 'not going back' to earlier questions in few tests.
Inductive reasoning has too may problems with squares and pattern wtihin them with complex calculation mechanics. You should include more options whereby 'thinking pattern' is involved rather than counting of squares etc - I did not find inductive reasoning tests upto the mark |
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| Accounting and Management companies | graduate Project manager |      |      | |  Can we have a little more tough english. Also we need to have more of industry standard that is 20 q in 15 min. |
| acme | Analytics & Campaign Manager |      |      |      |  I got the job, so I'm glad.
But more specifically about your test, they're a bit tougher than the actual tests that I took - but that's a good thing... Because I was more confident about the *surprise* questions that may have popped up. |
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| Akzo Nobel | Graduate | | |      |  the inductive tests are not so similar and are a lot harder than the usual tests. SHL mostly. |
| Akzonobel | GMTP |      | | |  This was instrumental for me to make it through the next round of interviews! I don't want everyone to know how good assessmentday is until I land a job, as I consider it my secret weapon! :P |
| Almac | Depot Co-Ordinator |      |      |      |  Time very tight - cannot stress how important to get started and keep going... |
| American Express | I.T Masters Programme sponsership |      | |      |  I carried out a numerical reasoning, Inductive reasoning and verbal reasoning test all in one. These were nothing like the ones I practiced here. I feel like I've wasted hours of my time practicing for nothing. |
| amg.net | software engineer |      | | |  My test had:
a) all graphs/tables at the end of the testing sheet
b)questions were alternating considering different graph ( e.g. question on graph A, then one on graph B, considering C, once again A )
It was all different in the tests I have tried on your website. |
| Antwerp Mangement School | Master of Finance |      |      | | |
| Aon Hewitt | Graduate Scheme |      |      |      |  A very accurate recreation of the real thing. Ideal and necessary if you are applying for a serious graduate position. |
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| Arup | Graduate Engineer |      |      | |  Very useful, thank you. |
| Assessment Day | Banking and Finance |      | | |  The graphs in the first numberical reasoning tests are now clear and therefore makes answering the questions accurately very difficult and impossible in some examples. Can this be "cleaned up"? |
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| Atkins | Graduate Engineer Aeronautical |      |      |      | |
| Atkins | Graduate Engineer |      |      | |  The type of the questions and the level of difficulty were pretty much the same for both tests. The only difference was the time duration, as my tests lasted 20 minutes both (but it was also 20 questions) instead of 30. |
| atkins | graduate aerospace engineer |      |      | |  Atkins tests are really tougher than your practise test . |
| Atkins, Bank of America | Audit, Operations |      |      |      |  My test had more questions on percentages and currencies |
| Audit Commission | Auditor Trainee |      |      |      |  My numerical was based on a number of tabs in which I had to find the relevant material. We were also marked down when we got a question wrong which made guessing very difficult. |
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| bank of america | graduate risk analyst |      | | |  They included questions related to RPI, which caused a problem. |
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| Bank of America Merill Lynch | Summer Analyst Investment Banking |      | | | |
| banking | Reporting Analyst |      |      |      |  I felt the time to do the tests was insufficient. The recorded outcome then become severe and affects your records for 2 years. |
| Banks | Analyst |      |      |      |  The amount of information in many of the questions in the numerical tests is way more than in real life tests such as SHL. Therefore it becomes very difficult to perform well in your tests under time pressure. |
| Banks | Trader |      | |      |  Your numerical tests were too easy compared to the real ones |
| BarC | analyst |      | | |  I solved your 9 numerical tests (each test at least twice) and achieved high percentiles (even 100 percentile). My main problem was always having very high accuracy but taking too long to solve the questions. I improved a lot, but not enough for the real test. Today I did a real SHL numerical test. The test was 18 questions and 25 minutes, no back button and no option to return to a previous question, and it was much harder than your tests. I also did a practice SHL exam twice and got 92%, and the real test was harder. The questions were hard and took long to complete, and there were new questions that I did not encounter before, such as graphs with time and distance axes in which I needed to convert meters/second to miles/hour, and hard currency questions. I did not know the answer to 1 or 2 questions (that I spent too long on and moved on), and I only completed 14 out of 18 questions (about 66% correct total I think). I really wish I could solve more practice tests. Your tests were good and provided me with important practice but they were not enough to prepare me for the real test. Much more exams and questions are needed in order to keep improving numerical skills, especially being able to solve hard questions fast enough, in order to achieve 100% in a real test such as the one that I did. I would have solved 20 more tests at least if I could to be prepared for this exam. So my advice to you is to keep writing more tests, and have more variety of hard questions, because it is needed to be able to solve those questions much faster. Other than that, I\'m really glad with your service and the opportunity that your provided me to practice tests, and I will continue practicing your tests for the inductive reasoning exam that I will do. |
| Barcap | Trading Internship |      |      | |  These tests are good practice, but if your applying for investment banking, try and find tests that are harder. The barcap test is and shl test but it is a lot harder than the practice test offered on the shl website. |
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| BarCap | IB analyst |      | | |  The SHL numerical test I had seemed to be much more difficult - I suppose it was managerial level... I hope you will develop the advanced test ASAP |
| BarCap | Graduate |      | | |  My test was 18min. There we 5 possible answers to choose from. |
| BarCap; BNP Paribas; HSBC; Deutsche Bank; RBS; Credit Suisse | Sales, PWM & Quantitative Internships (Summer & Off-Cycle) |      |      |      |  Great practice tests!
On the whole, your tests are a bit more difficult (in terms of time constraints) than the ones I've taken so far. I don't regret subscribing to your services and I'd strongly recommend to anyone seriously considering joining a financial services firm to subscribe ASAP if they haven't done so yet! |
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| Barclays | Private Bank |      | | |  Good Practice for the Barclays wealth test which is operated by SHL. |
| Barclays | HR Graduate Programme |      | | |  My test was with SHL - 18 questions in 25 minutes. The SHL questions were about the same difficulty as the ones on your website and very similar in style and format. The best bit was that I had practised doing 30 questions in 25 minutes so I had got very fast! When I did the real SHL test it felt like I had loads of time. I didn't panic, as I had done on previous tests, and I had time to check my answers thoroughly (though I couldn't go backwards on the SHL test so I had to check each answer before submitting). I just found out that I passed the test and can move on to the verbal one, which I will also be practising on your website - thank you so much Assessment Day! |
| Barclays Bank | Graduate role |      |      | |  Verbal questions (i.e. texts they provide) are much shorter by SHL. And ask more questions that are related to the text. |
| Barclays Capital | One year Industrial Placement |      | | |  My numeracy reasoning test was 25 minutes long with 18 questions to answer.
AssessmentDay.com should allow the user to do test without a time limit. |
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| barclays capital | investment banking division |      | | |  These tests are terrific. Better than the competitors- with some help from my engineering Dad I managed to up my score from 30% to around the 65% mark and sometimes higher. He showed me how to think properly on these qs using these tests and they are perfect- just the right format and amount of difficulty..wording of qs etc.
Plus, they are cheaper than competitors and have unlimited access..unlike wikijobs.
I am VERY pleased with my tests. ~I would reccommend this comapny. I also managed to pass PwC stage 2 with these.
Thanks. |
| Barclays, BNPP, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America | Graduate Programs in Investment Banking |      | | |  The practical tests are a bit longer than the typical ones. They are of similar difficulty but I never succeeded to complete all the questions in time whereas I have no problems to achieve the real tests. Practicing these tests helped not to be impressed by the complexity of the charts and table and to pay attention at the measures (millions, hours/year,...).
Exercises on percentages and examples of tables with share prices and basic financial statements (sales, costs, profits) often come on the real numerical tests.
It is a pity though, that the solution handbook just gives the answers but no tips to improve your speed. And there is no FX question in these practice tests whereas they often come on numerical tests for positions in banking.
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| Barclays, PwC | Intern |      | | |  The tests provided are easier than the tests which are given for jobs. |
| Barclays, RBS | Graduate Programmes (full-time) |      | | |  The tests were very helpful,though the real ones felt a bit harder towards the end. I didn't finish them but still passed. |
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| BAT | Management Trainee in Marketing | |      | |  the ones i actually had to take had much more answer options than true ,untrue or cannot tell. and they were all quite big sentences. |
| BCG | Associate |      | | |  The BCG test is much harder than any of the tests present on assessmentday.co.uk. However, your tests are among the best available on the web, and they still include very similar types of exercises. Although I was surprised by the difficulty of BCG test, I managed to pass it with a relatively high score. |
| Big 4 | Grad scheme |      |      | |  Hi,
I've found your numerical and verbal reasoning tests very useful. One small complaint with the numerical tests: some of the writing on the charts is illegible. Apart from that, they've been great.
Just one more thing: PwC have diagrammatical (logic) tests as part of their psychometric testing. This might be an area you want to expand into in the future as there don't seem to be many practice tests for these on the internet.
Thanks. |
| Big four | Accounting +Auditing |      |      |      |  Very good practices. Extremly helpful with clear and well structured answers and explainations. Very Good! Highly recommended. |
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| bms | director |      |      |      |  i ve done tests before with success, but never scored that high |
| bms | director |      |      |      |  i ve done tests before with success, but never scored that high |
| bms | director |      |      |      |  i ve done tests before with success, but never scored that high |
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| BP | Graduate role |      |      | |  Tests for numerical and verbal were shorter. Did not have inductive tests, but had another type of picture based test.
Verbal texts were much shorter. |
| British Airports Authority | Interim Facilities Manager | |      | |  The tests were very much like those used by BAA and were very helpful. |
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| British Airways | Pilot | |      | |  The VR test consists of shorter questions and are more ambiguous than the assessmentday tests although I found the assessmentday tests to give a very good grounding in techniques. |
| BT | Fast Track Leadership |      |      |      |  The Verbal reasoning test was very different from the test given at BT, The questions were multiple choice questions rather than true, false, not known asnwers. Passed the Numerical with flying colours but just missed out on Verbal |
| Bupa | Graduate |      |      | |  SHL Numerical and Verbal |
| Business School - Peking University - BiMBA | None |      | | |  Very good tool to practice especially with the detailed answer given.
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| Buying Team | Category Specialist IT |      | | |  My numerical test was 26 questions in 40 minutes with more sudoku like puzzles and some questions about TCO (total cost of ownership) or whole life costing
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| Buyingteam | Procurement Specialist |      | | |  Buyingteam look like they have developed thier own test which consists of 25 questions in 40 minutes. A mix of logic questions and statistical analysis. The Assessment Day test really got my brain working in the correct way. Highly Recommended and great value - what's £8 if you land a £60k job? |
| Capgemini | Consultant | |      | |  It is a good practice but no where close to the real deal. the passages are lengthier and change after every two questions and is more difficult. |
| capital one | graduate statistics | |      | |  Good preperation, I can now identify how to answer the questions. I passed my exams. |
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| Capital One | Director of Business Development Mobile Payments |      |      |      |  Your test preparation was not helpful at all. I scored off the charts (literally an 800 / 800) in math on my SAT's and didn't pass your tests. If I can geenerate $344M+ in returns for my employers isn't that what should matter not my ability to pass a ridiculous test! |
| Capital One Bank | Operations Analysis Manager |      |      |      |  My Numerical Reasoning test gave me an average of 1 minute and 23 seconds per question. Yours gave less than a minute. As a result, I started the test very nervous about finishing but did better than most and got to, but didn't finish, the last question.
I kept putting off doing the test because, based on your test I didn't think I was ready. I was upset at first but now I'm glad yours was harder. |
| Cathay Pacific Airways | Inflight Service and Standards Manager |      |      | |  I found the tests that I took were the same as the SHL's NMG and VMG. Your tests wre not similiar in that one chart/graph addresses four Q's simultaneously. In SHL's NMG2, the questions and charts were scattered. and it takes practice to do each Q's fast. It felt it was all about speed. |
| Catlin Underwriting | Actuarial analyst |      |      | | |
| CBS | MBA |      |      | |  My Numerical Reasoning Test was 25 min (with 18 (6x3) questions) and questins was in avarage more difficult.
My Verbal Reasoning Test was 19 min for 30 questions (10x3) |
| centrica, ce electric uk | Graduate Electrical Engineer |      |      | |  The numerical reasoning was good but I would like it if its a bit more complex. the way the answers are explained are very good as it helps me to correct myself the next time and even short cuts which cuts a lot of my time which I would have otherwise wasted.
Verbal reasoning is very good but the time limit set is a bit more as in the real test the time limit is like for 30 questions I was given only 19 minutes. But the standard of your tests were very good which helped me a lot. I am still awaiting my results but I did very well. Thanks to your team |
| centrica, ce electric uk | Graduate Electrical Engineer |      |      | |  The numerical reasoning was good but I would like it if its a bit more complex. the way the answers are explained are very good as it helps me to correct myself the next time and even short cuts which cuts a lot of my time which I would have otherwise wasted.
Verbal reasoning is very good but the time limit set is a bit more as in the real test the time limit is like for 30 questions I was given only 19 minutes. But the standard of your tests were very good which helped me a lot. I am still awaiting my results but I did very well. Thanks to your team |
| Citi | Wealth Management |      | | |  Completely different format and questions varied. TBH the citi tests was very different to any others I have taken. The tables are poorly designed making it more difficult to extract the information and the answers are selected on a scrolling menu, with about 20+ diff answers. There is no clock timer and the time limit is set per question 60-75 seconds. |
| Citi | Graduate Analyst |      | | |  Good prep for citi :) |
| Citibank | Summer Internship Corporate Banking Zurich |      | | |  The citibank numeracy test was nothing like any of the numerical practice test found on this website.
First, it is not a multiple choice test with 5 options but it has a drop down menu with 30 to 50 answers possible.
Second there are 12 questions in all. Divided in 4 tables of 3 questions. You are allowed a maximum of 90 seconds for the first of the three questions and 75 seconds for the next 2.
Third, there are a lot more information on their table than in any of the tables in the practice tests found on this website.
Their numeracy test has nothing to do with the "classic" SHL tests other banks such as Barclays Capital and UBS use. |
| Citigroup, Ernst & Young ((Investment banking, Corporate Finance) respectively) | Industrial Placement Applicant |      |      | |  RE Numerical Reasoning Tests
The numerical test I did comprised of 19 questions in 24 minutes. They start of quite easy and then get progressively harder. It is not so much the difficulty but the time factor.
I would advise making some longer questions, although I have found the tests on this site of great use.
For the second numerical test, it was very easy and your numerical tests are hard in comparison. |
| City Council | General Manager |      | |      |  Well I completely bombed both Maths and Inductive reasoning on SHL - just ran out of time and found on screen really hard to do let alone conversion of currency. So I did more work and then the next test which wasn't SHL had basic maths which I hadn't practised - basis equations, ratios and time conversions so not as bad but not practised - they did though let me have a paper copy! I think you need more variety as your stuff is very SHL like. Also I think you could add value to the site by adding some how to videos- people have different learning styles and sometimes visual and oral explanations would have been so helpful! I will keep practising but despite managing big companies, emergencies and large staff numbers at a CE level - plus I have a Masters degree which included economics and stats - these tests still send me into anxiety attacks. I do not believe they accurately reflect ability and it saddens me when I see them used as a sole predictor of ability!
I would however recommend your site - you are the only really helpful people out there!
PS Perhaps you need a psychologist online as well to reassure people!
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| Civil service fast stream | Graduate fast stream / European Fast strem |      |      | |  Your tests provided an extremely helpful practise resource. I would only ask that there be more tests! The numerical test which was visual rather than mathematical (Estimating the percentages from the pie chart) was the least useful, however the rest were spot on. Many thanks, more tests please!!! |
| Civil Service Faststream | Graduate Faststream |      |      | |  Numerical reasoning tests very close to Faststream stuff, an incredibly useful learning tool. Their test was 20 questions in 25 minutes and was actually a little easier than some of the harder AD tests (no bad thing).
The verbal reasoning was a little more difficult (I think): there seemed to be far more questions where the answer, frustratingly, seemed to be "Cannot say".
Great product, well worth the subscription. Thanks! |
| Civil Service Faststream | Faststream Entrant |      | | |  Your online tests were longer than my actual test but this was quite helpful as it made the test process seem a little easier. |
| Civil Service/NHS | Graduate Management training |      |      | |  If anything, the practice tests were more difficult than the actual tests, which is the right way around. Well worth the money. |
| Clifford Chance LLP | Trainee Solicitor | |      | |  My verbal reasoning test was 15 minutes for 30 questions. Your's, however, allows longer. |
| CMS Cameron McKenna LLP | Training Contract | |      | |  I think the 11 tests provide a good range of exercises. Some of them are quite easy and some are more challenging. The verbal reasoning subscription is suitable for both beginner and advance level candidates. I highly recommend it to all have to undertake verbal reasoning test as part of their job assessment. It's good practice. Definitely much better than those verbal reasoning books. |
| confidential | pilot |      |      | |  Some of the numerical questions required more steps to reach the answer than yours. Otherwise they were closely representative.
The answers to verbal reasoning tests seemed to be based on a more general interpretation of the passage or a particular sentence than recognition of the impact of a certain key word within the passage. i.e. theirs - broad meaning, yours - attention to detail within the passage.
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| Consulting | Undergraduate |      | | |  Actual test was 45 min. And questions longer (2 minutes or so per question) not one minute.
Practice test questions too easy-short. |
| Council of Europe | Lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights |      | | |  The on line test was provided by SHL company from UK. My numerical test was 25 minutes for 18 items. I tought I did 5 answers correct but I scored only 1. They didn't tell me how the scores were calculated.
With regard to your practice test I have to say that was very useful, but I think the solutions should be better explained. I have never done this kind of tests before.
Thank You |
| Credit Suisse | Non Technical Analyst |      |      |      |  My numerical test was somewhat easier than your tests and it was 20 minutes. However, your tests definitely helped me to work on my speed of solving the problems. |
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| Credit Suisse | risk | |      | |  Q5 Even in tough economic times, ESA directors wish to maintain a high level of work
flowing through to the space industries of member states.
True False Cannot say
This is not explicitly stated. However, the passage states that ESA directors wish to
keep their funding high even in times of global economic downtown. Elsewhere, ESA
funding is stated as being directly related to the volume of work that passes back to
member states' space industries. Under the funding structure described in the
passage, work flowing through to member states can only happen if the ESA’s budget
is maintained. The statement is therefore true by way of reasoning.
This statement is not true by way of reasoning. It would be like arguing, I wish to drive my car, driving my car erodes the road surface, therefore it follows that it is my wish to erode the road surface. (Obviously false). Just because I wish a thing that has consequences, does not mean that I wish those consequences. clearly a failure of logic here by the question setter. |
| Credit Suisse | Technology graduate programme | |      | |  I felt the PSL tests that credit suisse used was significantly harder than the ones I practiced from assessment day. |
| Credit Suisse | Technology |      |      |      |  All real tests are much harder than the ones provided by assessment day. |
| credit suisse, deutsche bank | wealth management |      |      | |  most of your numerical reasoning tests are too easy |
| Deloitte | Actuarial |      | | |  The test was SHL and 25 minutes long with 18 questions. Most of the questions I answered were using tables. They all required some grasp of economics/finance or business. The level of difficulty was greaster than the average difficulty of the tests here.
The same applies for one I did a few weeks ago for Towers Watson but that was much more difficult than the Deloitte test even. Some more 18 question tests which are more focused on tasbles and business knowledge would be appreciated. |
| Deloitte | Technology Integration |      |      |      |  Very constructive tests. |
| Deloitte | Graduate Position |      | | |  I successfully reached the numerical test stage. There were 8 practice questions which were really tough, but I managed to get 7 correct. Then there were 2 further practice questions which were easier. The actual 18 test questions (24 minutes) were easier than the 8 practice questions. The AssessmentDay numerical tests were very good practice for the numerical test. I passed and have been invited to take the verbal reasoning test. I have just subscribed to AssessmentDay to practise for that test also. |
| Deloitte | Graduate Consultant |      | | |  Good and helpful although the real tests are slightly harder. Good investment. |
| Deloitte | Accoutancy |      | | |  Main problem is that they're not hard enough -
the SHL ones are far more 'wordy' - using double negatives and unnecessary information to obscure the question.
Maybe this is just because the accountancy ones are more tricky specifically.
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| Deloitte | consultant 1 |      | | |  Deloitte has changed the structure of the tests so it wasnt similar to your numerical reasoning test - but (!) it gives to me a self-confidence so I have passed it and got the job in Deloitte. |
| Deloitte | Audit Graduate programme |      | | |  The tests were good and great to practise before the real thing however I compared to the SHL numerical reasoning test that I had to complete for the job the assessment day tests were easier. It would be good to have some harder tests in terms of business related questions and unusual wording that other test companies such as SHL use. |
| deloitte | vacation scheme |      | | |  it didnt work for me i failed the test |
| Deloitte | Consulting |      | | |  Assessment day tests are good in order to get an idea of the kind of reasoning, however SHL numerical tests are slightly different insomuch that they require one to calculate with much larger numbers (this can be a deal braker for people not used to working in thousands multiplied by millions or are not used to calculating with less zero's etc.)
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| Deloitte | Internship in consultancy |      | | |  The numerical reasoning test was 25 minutes for 20 questions and yet it was much harder than your reasoning tests. They did not prepare me well enough and I failed. So they should be harder with more conversions to do or more complicated reasoning for example. |
| Deloitte, IBM | Consulting |      |      |      |  Some of the numerical reasoning tests were slightly easier than the real ones, but definitely practising Assessment Day tests helped! |
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| Deloitte/ BDO/ Mazars | Trainee Accountant |      | | |  In general the tests are good quality and better value for money than many others offered on the web. Two slight criticisms. 1) The tests are a touch easier than the shl tests (which many of the companies I have applied for use) and 2)The graphs are sometimes difficult to read because too small or the colours chosen are too similar to one another. |
| department of corrections | probation officer | |      | |  I am still practicing your tests and am very grateful for the opportunity. |
| Deutsche Bank | Risk Management |      | | |  I thought it was pretty similar to your own tests. Great news! I practise one this morning and my brain was just out of gear, so I deferred the test and things were working a lot better tonight. One form of question that they had which I haven't seen so far in your tests is of the form. One column with an absolute number, one column with a rate. And then to recalculate an absolute number based on an alteration to both. Say for instance you are given the absolute number of accidents at work, and the rate of accidents at work. In the following five years the number of employees doubles, and the rate declines by 10. Calculate the new absolute number of injuries. Cheers |
| diageo | Sales and marketing grad scheme | |      | |  On Verbal test number 3 I have to query one of the answers you've given. Q 10, asks about are the majority of developing countries within 50km of the equator. The passage states that most are within 100km. You've said the answer should be true but surely you cannot say as there may be many more developing countries between 50 - 100km making the majority outside 50km? This is strictly speaking as it would be a basic assumption to say 100km is within 1 country around the equator but the passage does not tell you this. The basic assumption would say its true but the passage doesn't strictly tell you that information. |
| dont know yet | graduate scheme |      |      |      |  A couple of other features that would be useful (thanks for putting the tick/cross symbols at end of the test, much better!):
1. A record of past tests taken and scores achieved
2. Better explanation of how percentile scores are calculated - is "time taken to answer question" factored in? If not, some tests may be too easy as getting 100% puts you in 65th percentile (ie. too many people getting 100% = test too easy)
3. People who take the same test more than once, are their subsequent scores factored in? The effect of learning and practice on the same test will also throw the percentile calculation off.
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| Drivers Jonas Deloitte | Graduate, General Practice | |      | |  The verbal reasoning test was 19 minutes, with the same number of questions, making it slightly difficult to adjust to the different amount of time given per answer.
Most importantly, DJD's verbal reasoning tests are much much much more difficult! The passages are focussed on legal texts predominantly, or some impenetrable scientific reports. The logical passages required are more, and mostly, the level of English vocabulary required is definitely higher.
Having said that, I did not encounter the same level of complexity in other grad schemes' online verbal tests - this might be an exception particular to this real estate firm, where large part of a graduate's work is reading, analysing and reporting on legal documents. |
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| E.oN | graduate engineer |      |      |      |  Hi,
Well the practice tests are good but I felt they are insuffient in number. I was expecting that there would be several test when i logged in. i hope that more tests can be added into our members area in the future. |
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| EasyJet | Cabincrew |      |      |      |  These tests were too hard for this Company. The maths actually put me off applying as they were too complicated for Easyjet. More basic tests would be better in the Match section. The verbal reasoning was very good. We did have a group test which was to put some reasoning cards in logical order - nobody could do this so maybe something like that would have helped. |
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| EFG | derivate seller |      | | |  I had to do currency calculation. I wasn't prepared for that at all and did not pass!! so you please integrated these aswell |
| Emirates | Engineering |      |      |      |  The assessment day helped me alot,it was very useful to me(Inductive Reasoning Test).Thank you |
| Enterprise PLC | Graduate Engineer |      |      |      |  Way more difficult compared to your tests... Take a look into Kenexa tests, I ran out of time for almost all the sections. |
| Eon | Trading Traineeship |      | | |  Matches numerical tests provided by SHL very well. |
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| ernst and young | direct tax |      | | |  the content of the questions was different, more business/economic focussed.
These tests are easier, perhaps should be designed with a tapered difficulty?
Overall very helpful at training your mind and method for the real thing however |
| ESCP | Master in Management |      |      |      |  Great tests:-) |
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| European Commission | AD 7 |      |      |      |  I had the impression that in some cases verbal reasoning questions have solutions based on arbitrary speculations, lacking consistence from one question to another.
E.g in two different questions similar situations are explained using totally different set of arguments.
Adjustable time frame would be also useful. |
| European Personnel Selection Office | Auditor |      |      |      | |
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| european union institution | administrator |      |      |      |  your reasoning tests are too easy - i was very good at your tests - and strugle realy hard with eu tests. Same with verbal |
| Experian | Programme Manager |      |      | |  Experian used SHL tests and I found the numerical reasoning ones more difficult than yours. The techniques required were similar to yours and therefore your tests were good practice. What was different was the sheer grunt work required on the SHL tests. For instance, excluding some of answers given was often not just a question of looking at the numbers because the answers were often too similar. |
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| Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP | Trainee Solicitor | | |      |  The layout of the tests is very helpful - online tests or print out the PDF documents. My only criticism is that there were not enough "difficult" tests, many of them were too easy. |
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| Financial Service Authority | Graduate Program |      |      | |  The test was supossed to be numerical but in the same question they combined verbal and numerical reasoning. In your test I did not find any kind of this exercise. |
| Financial Services Authority | Graduate Development Programme |      | | |  The numerical reasoning tests I took at the FSA took the format of 22 questions in 35 minutes, so slightly different to Assessment Day format. However, the types of questions used for the Assessment Day numerical tests were very similar to the ones I had to do at the FSA assessment centre so they were a big help. |
| Ford | Graduate Finance | | |      |  Your test were good prep material only that your time limit is bit on the high side |
| Ford | Graduate Finance | | |      |  Your test were good prep material only that your time limit is bit on the high side |
| FOS | Adjudicator | |      | |  practise test 6, question 30 is not the same as the question stated in the answer. |
| FSA | Supervisory role |      | | |  The FSA test is 22 questions in 35 mins and is more focused on financial reasoning than answering 4 or 5 questions related to a graph or chart of numbers. All your tests have a similar format and should be mixed up with different time limits and types of questions.
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| FSA | Senior Associate |      | | |  FSA asked us to complete 22 questions in 35 minutes.FSA tests were slightly different because it was less of diagrams and more of verbal reasoning on which the calculations/numerical reasoning was based.
I passed my test and the results remain valid for an year .
Your course was the nearest match to the real thing ! So a big thank you indeed . |
| FSA | Graduate Development Program |      | | |  The FSA's financial reasoning test is 35 minutes for 22 questions. However, those questions are somewhat more difficult, in large due to the necessary information being placed more in comparatively dense blocks of text than in graphs and tables. |
| Futex | Futures Trader | | |      |  The assesment was for Graduate position for scholarship training as futures trader. The Inductive reasoning test was 100% TEST 3. |
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| General Medical Council | Fitness to Practise Panellist |      |      |      |  Calculators were not allowed in actual numerical reasoning tests. Time schedules were tighter. Inductive reasoning tests were slightly different, more concerned with shape recognition. Overall your tests provided useful practice and were comparatively good value. Thanks. |
| government | operations | |      | |  I found the test questions interesting and cahllenging enough however I was struck by the inconsistency of the solutions. Sometimes a passage neither says one thing or another and the \"correct\" answer is \"cannot say\" whilst at other like instances the correct option is \"false\". A case of damned if you do, damned if you don\'t. Frustratingly this only occurs some of the time but it does make it difficult to learn from practice and/or ascertain why I get the results I do most of the time without any sign of improvement.
In short what I am trying to say is that in one test you get marked wrong in a question for saying \"cannot say\" whilst in the next test that would be the correct answer.
All that said I am glad to have paid for the privilege of your practice tests and rue the fact there were only seven. |
| Government | Website Adviser | |      | |  Your verbal reasoning test was very similar to the one I took. It was definitely useful and I was more confident given the extra preparation I did.
I practised from other websites too, like http://www.shldirect.com/practice_tests.html
On the real test I had to take, I achieved 93% and didn't have time to complete the final question. So did pretty well! |
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| Grant Thornton | Audit AAT School Leaver | |      | |  Very good. Practise made perfect! |
| Grant Thornton | Audit AAT School Leaver | |      | |  Very good. Practise made perfect! |
| grant thornton | graduate tax trainee |      |      | |  my numerical and verbal tests were harder then the practise tests. |
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| gsk | management trainee |      |      |      |  thank you so much! i have never passed a job test like i did this..out of almost 4000 people that wrote the test we were like 70 that made the test..i was inclusive! i recommend this assesment site to anybody who doesnt believe, he or she can make a job test..i have taken the interview buti didnt really perform like i would love to! But i put it in prayer bcos i really studied hard and i belive i deserve the job! |
| HAT Groups of Accountants | AAT Trainee |      | | |  These tests were exactly like the one I had to sit for this company. If anything they were a little bit harder, so when it come to sitting the tests, I felt fairly confident! Excellent package to invest in! |
| Hays, Robert Walters | HR, Recruitment |      |      |      | |
| Herbert Smith LLP | Training Contract | |      | |  Assessment Day offers very helpful verbal reasoning tests. They are great preparation for the real test! |
| Hertfordshire County Council | Human Resources Trainee manager |      |      | |  My Numerical Reasoning test was 25 minutes long and had a large amount of ratio questions and fractions- perhaps include more practice on this. |
| HMRC | Tax Inspector |      |      |      |  I just wanted to thank you for your superb practice tests. It turned out to be the best £11.99 I\'ve ever spent. Going through the process of doing the tests under timed conditions and being able to understand the solutions when I went wrong was invaluable. It increased my confidence and helped me approach the tests in a confident manner. I got through them and progressed to an assessment centre. Just heard this week that I got the job! Thanks so much. I wouldn\'t hesitate to recommend you to anyone else out there who\'s facing graduate level tests. |
| Hmrc | Senior leader |      |      | |  Taking the time to work my way through these in advance was really worthwhile - very similar level to those I faced on the day |
| HSBC | graduate program |      | | |  the level of difficulty of my numerical tests was higher than those I experienced with Assessment Day |
| HSBC | International Management Programme |      |      | |  My test was numerical reasoning test was 20 minutes and my verbal reasoning test was 15 minutes. I passed both at HSBC. Unfortunately I could not find any personality questionnaires on your site. That would have been useful too. |
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| HSBC | International Management |      |      | |  The entire practice test package was extremely useful in preparing for the actual tests. However, the verbal reasoning practice tests were more complex than the actual test in terms of the length of the paragraphs which turned out to be beneficial at the end.
Many thanks to the AssesmentDay team. |
| HSBC Bank | Graduate development program |      |      |      | |
| HSBS, BoA/Meryll | Graduate analyst |      | | |  Not enough questions on indices(i.e finacial index , FUTSE index and currency index). Also not enough on currency conversions. everything else was spot on. |
| I-banks | Ibank's Graduate Technology program |      |      | |  I think the tests are good but can we have them in the format of 20 questions in 18 min. Since most of the I-banks use this format. short and fast exams. |
| IBD | intern |      | | |  Excellent preparation, but a little more trick "cannot say" questions could also help. |
| IBM | Graduate Engineer |      |      |      |  Would be great if IBM-IPATO type practice tests were available too - Matrices (5 Columns X 5Rows) |
| IBM | Technology Consultant |      |      |      |  Needs number sequences for preparing for IPAT test.
Also, SHL numerical tests don't get you to do the same amount of calculator work as yours do; SHL has more mental arithmetic style questions.
The verbal reasoning was very good and accurate. The same applies to the inductive reasoning tests. |
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| ICAP | Graduate in HR |      | | |  Sometimes I find that the question you pose are too long when it comes to working the answer out. Some of the company tests have shorter questions. Also, the test itself, from my experience of taking around 5 numerical reasoning tests, have only 20 questions with 20 minutes to answer those question. Maybe you could shortern the tests.
Also, I do actually like the fact that your tests are more difficult than the actual company numerical tests that I have experienced. |
| interal job tests were SHL test | Finance Analyst |      | | |  I like the option of being able to look at how the answers are done. It may be seem a bit too much though it would be good to have a why somethings are done so the candidate can apply the knowledge to the brain so we can apply this to other questions as well as seeing why the answer relates to a specific question. Also though your test are the same level as the ones I did, the ones I did had more segments to the questions, e.g. find A then find b then find c.
thanks for putting this up though it's still has helped. Ali |
| interal job tests were SHL test | Finance Analyst |      | | |  I like the option of being able to look at how the answers are done. It may be seem a bit too much though it would be good to have a why somethings are done so the candidate can apply the knowledge to the brain so we can apply this to other questions as well as seeing why the answer relates to a specific question. Also though your test are the same level as the ones I did, the ones I did had more segments to the questions, e.g. find A then find b then find c.
thanks for putting this up though it's still has helped. Ali |
| Internal Company Senior ExecutiveAssessment | Senior Manangement Team position |      |      | |  Verbal reasoning test was extremely accurate in terms of content, length and difficulty, scored in the 95th percentile.
Numerical reasoning exam was more straightforward than your tests but practising with your test gave me the confidence I needed and I managed to achieve the 99th percntile
All in all a great resource for these type of tests.
regards |
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| Jaguar Land Rover | Graduate Product Development Engineer |      |      | |  Great practice questions, really felt like they prepared me well.
Good length / quantity of questions.
The main difference was not being able to go back through questions on the real test; though being able to do this is a great feature for practise purposes, so not a negative point.
Fingers crossed the practice means I can secure my dream job at JLR. |
| Kellogg's, Morrison, DS Smith Industry, Cooper Industry, Kimberley-Clarck, UB | Graduate Jobs, Management positions |      | | |  these tests are similar to SHL tests and they are up to date with current information and data. I would recommend them to people applying for graduate jobs. I like the tests, the more I am practising the better I have become. |
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| KPMG | Graduate |      |      | |  Numerical tests were of very high difficulty to complete in such short time |
| KPMG | Graduate Audit |      |      | |  Verbal Reasoning: The Cubik tests are much harder. They use generally shorter but extremely confusing passages and cram 40 questions into 20 mins, which provides a much higher 'load' on the brain, which can cause panic (and did with me, even though I received good marks on your practice tests).
Numerical Reasoning: The Cubik tests were harder as they required more manipulation steps to reach the answer, hence, more opportunity to go wrong. There are 24 questions in 20 mins, which is again a very high 'load' though having already messed up the VR test, I didn't panic as I considered there was nothing to lose anyway. I actually only completed about 13 questions, whereas I've been able to complete your tests in the time available. |
| KPMG | Consulting | |      | |  Verbal reasoning test I took was 10 times harder, I had to answer 40 questions in 20 minutes. All the topics were from economics, business strategy and planning. None from social sciences. |
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| KPMG | Manager |      |      | |  I did 3 tests each for Numeric and Verbal reasoning. While it improved my confidence, but it did not increase my score at the percentile level.
What should I do to increase my performance at a percentile level. |
| KPMG | Senior Manager - Projects |      |      | |  I did NOT pass the test as the KPMG tests were quite different in content and speed expectations. |
| KPMG | Consulting | |      | |  Verbal reasoning test I took was 10 times harder, I had to answer 40 questions in 20 minutes. All the topics were from economics, business strategy and planning. None from social sciences. |
| KPMG | Consulting | |      | |  Verbal reasoning test I took was 10 times harder, I had to answer 40 questions in 20 minutes. All the topics were from economics, business strategy and planning. None from social sciences. |
| kpmg | accounting |      |      |      |  These tests really helped me prepare to the best of my ability for the online assessments i had undertaken. I felt that the inductive reasoning tests could have incorporated more variety of questions. |
| KPMG | Graduate Trainee |      |      |      |  the numerical reasoning exercises are a little bit simple than the real tests, and the structure of exercises are also simple and have no any diversify compare with each questions. |
| KPMG | Tax Graduate Scheme |      |      | |  Overall very good. Slightly more difficulty in the Numerical Reasoning Tests would be beneficial, particularly regarding ratios and currency conversion. |
| KPMG | P&T Banking Advisory |      |      | |  These tests are no way near as hard as what I did with KPMG. Their test had 8 possible answers and the time restrictions were completely different. The tests helped me prepare but in now way gave a good indication of what you will face with KPMG. |
| KPMG | Performance and Technology |      |      | |  Great way to prepare for the real thing! |
| KPMG | Audit |      | | | |
| KPMG | Graduate consulting |      |      |      |  All of the 3 practice questions give me very good practices for the real one. I got the interview invitation from them today :) |
| KPMG, FSA | Audit, Graduate Scheme |      |      |      | |
| KPMG, PwC | Graduate Assurance |      |      |      |  The inductive reasoning tests lack variability to cover different employers type of tests. |
| KPMG, PwC | Advisory for KPMG, Management Consulting for PwC |      |      |      |  Thanks to assessmentday, I passed the tess for KPMG (though fail for the PwC).
But all these practice tests gave me a good familiarity with the kind of problems they gave me.
I found numerical test of KPMG was a lot more difficult than the tests here. But doing this tests gave me an experiences to solve the proble.
The PwC was much less similar. I was actually more confident after finishing the PwC test. But maybe its just not my luck :) |
| Kraft Foods | Finance Graduate |      |      | | |
| Law firm | Trainee solicitor | |      | |  the style of the questions of my test provider differed a bit; there were 33 questions for 18 minutes |
| Lazard | Summer Analyst Investment Banking |      | | | |
| Lion | MEX Manager |      |      | |  Verbal Reasoning was very similar however a lot of currency exchange questions on my Numerical reasoning real assessment which I did not find any on the test ones, may have been there but not on the ones I selected (6-8). The test questions were of a simlar level of difficulty though and certainly helped my preperation for a succesful on line assessment. |
| Lion Nathan National Foods | Accounts Payable Executive |      |      | |  The practice tests ended up being harder than the actual test, which helped me greatly. I passed the test and I got the job, many thanks! |
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| Local Authority | Customer Service Advisor |      |      |      |  All three are excellent products - particularly the way they explain the answers. |
| Local government | Accountant |      | | |  These were totally spot on - the best £7.50 I have spent. Although I didn't think I was improving much as I went through the papers it did highlight a major weakness, not acurately reading the questions, so I spent a little extra time on this during the actual test. My feedbackcame back as 'extremely good results' and was subsequently offered a job.
Thank you. |
| Logica | Graduate Schemes |      |      |      |  Unfortunately the tests were below the level expected by the employer's assessments. |
| London council | Finance |      |      | |  Hard work to get through all the practice tests, but it was really worth the money and effort. The SHL test was of the same standard, or maybe even slightly easier. The practice enabled me to finish both tests with time to spare. Brilliant! |
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| Macquarie Capital (Sydney, Australia) | Analyst, Investment Bank | |      |      |  Verbal Test had 30 questions to be completed in 15 min. The passages were shorter and applied to more than 4 questions each, so it was not very hard to complete all 30 questions. The AssessmentDay Verbal practice tests provided good practice in terms of logic and speed.
Abstract Test has 28 questions to be completed in 14 min. I felt there is a large percentage of easier questions than hard ones, which again made it not very hard to complete all 28 questions in the given time limit. The AssessmentDay Inductive Reasoning practice tests provided good practice in terms of speed and interpreting the sequence. |
| Maersk | Trade Analyst |      |      |      |  Your tests were far more advanced than the problem solving C from Cubiks. Nevertheless, your tests are a great preparation for the assessement centers. |
| Maersk | Manager |      |      |      |  I think your tests are good practice examples, but the questions in the tests i had were simpler..e.g. ment to be managed without calculator and the verbal teats was for example 5 words and you need to find the one that differs. Maybe you could have dirrente levels and speed required.. Your tests are good. |
| many | consulting |      | | |  The answers provided are useless as they describe the time-consuming common solution method that does not take into consideration the time constrain. The point of the answers should be to provide shortcuts to solve as many problems as possible within the limited time frame. This is what these tests are testing.
The questions though are pretty good. |
| many | analyst |      | | |  hi, can u double check if the answer to question 30 of practice test 4 (numerical one) is correct?
the answer u give is can't not say from the data. but i think u can calculate from the data. the anwer is around 154?
thanks |
| Marks and Spencer | E-commerce Business Placement Scheme |      |      |      | |
| Mazars, Grant Thornton | Graduate Accountant |      |      | |  These tests have been very helpful; I haven't failed any tests since I used them for practice. |
| MBA | MBA |      |      |      |  Your tests were harder and more time restricted, but for me this was fine because this made the real test seem easier. |
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| Mercuri Urval | GM |      |      |      |  Hi Oliver / to whom etc
To be honest, your practice tests were of quite limited use. Not that they were poor quality, but rather it was a question of relevance. Though the tests I took covered each of the three usual areas, the nature of the tests I took were very different in approach to your practice tests - hence the mismatch.
Cheers
Mark
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| Morgan Stanley | Finance |      | |      |  The inductive reasoning tests are very similar, however in the numerical reasoning part you missed the exponential growth problems. |
| Morgan Stanley | Analyst |      |      | |  I found the tests similar to the ones that you provided. Unfortunately, my test technique was not good and subsequently I did not pass the numerical part of the test and need to retake it. I have difficulty with time management and will now work on the techniques that will allow me to improve and pass the test |
| Morgan Stanley | Internship |      |      |      |  In a few of the pie-charts used in the Numerical Tests, it is very difficult to differentiate between shades of the same colour -- light blue, dark blue and purple. As a result, time is lost trying to figure this out, and sometimes the wrong interpretation is made.
The same applies to a few of the line charts; when a number of lines cross over each other it can be very difficult to differentiate between light green and orange.
Many thanks
Alex |
| Morgan stanley | Summer Analyst |      |      |      |  Very similar test(a little more than actual test) and I am so glad I scribed it! |
| n/a | Team based | |      | |  My verbal reasoning was 36 questions in 25 mins as opposed to 30 in 20. The answer options were indivdually worded sas opposed to just having 1 question and then chosing from A,B,C or D; this made my test much more tricky because you had to read and clearly understand 4 statements/variations on the same theme. |
| N/A | Investigations Officer | |      | |  My numerical test also included a question asking what the main idea of the whole passage was.
Also, I felt I had a lot less time in it. |
| N/A | Commercial Planning Analyst | |      | |  The practice tests were great. I scored 96%. The only complaint I have is the practice tests were 25 min but my actual test was only 19. So I ran out of time. Other than that, great. Now time to study for Numerical. |
| NA | NA | |      | |  In verbal practice test 5, at question 20, I think the correct answer is false and not cannot say, as the quoteed words do not appear in the text. Quoting means specifically reproducting one's words which have not been reproduced here. |
| National Audit Office | Senior Analyst |      | | |  Test was slightly shorter (20mins) but that was fine because the stress of taking the test slows you slightly. Basically I have taken a similar test in the passed and struggled to get through more than 50% of the questions. After training consistenly with these tests I got through all questions and this was a key component in getting the position! In terms of look and feel, this was a great simulator in which to train, and it made a huge difference. |
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| Newlon Housing Association | Deputy Finance Director |      |      | |  Your test are slightly harder than those I took at the assessment centre.
I found the assessment day verbal reasoning an easier paper as it included "find another word that means the same" type options which I always can answer fairly speedily.
Although the actual questions on the numeric tests were a little easier. The tables and graphs relating to the questions were all on the back flap of the test and the questions jumped from one chart to another, which did not match with the one chart at a time plus 3 related questions approach in your tests. |
| NHS | Graduate Scheme |      |      |      |  I would definitely recommend these tests as they build your confidence and give a taste of what the actual tests will be like. The tests were a little longer than the actual tests, however it still helped with the preparation and it was not a complete shock when it came to the real tests. All the tests were very helpful and the fact that the solutions are included are a bonus as they allow you to see where you went wrong. Very happy that I bought the package...it really did help!!! |
| NHS | Graduate Management in Finance |      | | |  Your tests were easier but still very useful. |
| Nigerian Breweries | Sales Executive |      |      | |  The test of nigerian breweries which I bought the practise aptitude test is coming up this weekend. But as a matter of fact, I have benefitted a lot from practices with the questions and solutions. I tried contacting Nigerian breweries asking them the type of test they use so I can also visit the test publisher website but I didn't get any response. But I am confident that assesment day practice aptitude test will give me the edge I need. Thank You |
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| Nomura | Graduate |      | | |  your tests were harder making the real thing easier |
| Nomura | IB Analysr | |      | |  There were 30 verbal reasoning questions to be completed within 19 minutes.
There was no back button, so you had no way to review your answers, which really sucks.
It would be great if you guys could incorporate these features into your practice tests. |
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| Not allowed to say | Management |      |      | |  My tests related to advancement within my current employment.
My numerical test was very similar in questions to assessment day however it was 30 questions in 20 minutes which was extremely challenging!!!
The verbal reasoning tests were again 30 questions in 20 minutes. For each set of questions (possibly 4) I was provided with two passages each very different it style. The questions tested my understanding of content and differences, replacement words and my interpretation of the language used. Whilst i found assessment day useful practice the actual tests were very different.
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| Not applicable | Not applicable | |      | |  I have completed three of your verbal reasoning tests so far. The first two seemed quite well constructed, however the third is rife with illogicalities and inconsistent presuppositions. I wonder whether it was authored by a different person to tests 1 and 2? If you are interested in discussing this, please email me at john@sas.vc
Best wishes,
John. |
| Not disclosed | Options Trader |      | |      |  Your tests were harder than the SHL tests (which was good). I passed both Numerical and inductive tests for an options trading firm. Thank you so much. |
| Novartis | National Oncologu Policy Lead |      |      | |  The numerical reasoning tests were a lot harder and although I had practised a fair bit I did not do well. I did get the job though... |
| Npower | Business Markets Business Analyst |      | | | |
| NZTA | Project Manager |      |      | |  The actual test was very similar to the ones in your examples. I do not know if the test was successful as I am still awaiting an offer from New Zealand although the recent earthquake in Christchurch has delayed matters somewhat as the authorities deal with urgent matters at home |
| OCBC | Graduate Role | |      | |  Your verbal reasoning test is more difficult and complex compare to the one tested on SHL. Some of them are also local bounded, probably U.K. bias. Nevertheless, it made me want to practice more and more. Additionally, sometimes I don't agree with the solution provided, again, this is probably due to variation of English language in both sentence construction and word usage. |
| OCBC Bank | Management Associate Programme |      | | |  The real test was 25 minutes for 25 questions. It is more difficult to plan for real test because 1) the system does not allow users to go back to earlier questions- which means you have to answer it immediately 2) the time clock for the real test does not include the seconds, so when i was at the last one minute, i was not sure the exact time i have and i missed the chance to answer the last questions.
However, this test is helpful to prepare me for the exam - the nature of questions are more of less the same with the real one. It's about getting more practice and to prepare yourself mentally for the real one. |
| Oil and Gas Related. | Engineer |      |      |      |  Your questions over prepared me for the tests. As i felt more than capable to answer most questions even without using a calculator in the analytical stages. This website is truly a gift to exam testers. I would like to recommend you to keep updating the questions on this website as this will keep members coming back for more challenges. |
| One Harvest | Graduate Accountant |      |      |      |  The Sample numerical tests are far-fetched from the tests that I had to go through and likewise, the verbal reasoning tests. |
| Personal | CFO | |      | |  I've just completed Verbal Reasoning Test 1 which I thought was excellent. I don't think that you're answer to question 14 is correct. I agree that the reports may be true or false. However, the final sentence states, "The studies also show, however, that change is happening slowly and that the cracks are small". Albeit happening slowly and the cracks being small,positive change is still happening. Hence, I believe the answer is "True" not "Cannot say". Too sneaky a question and delayed me because of the many permutations to balance! |
| Pertamina | Manager prmotion |      |      |      |  The company use SHL assessment tools and ways for manager selection and placement. Can you help me find the most similiar test material |
| Philips | Commercial Graduate Scheme |      | | |  The numerical reasoning tests for Philips that I had were by SHL. I would say that tests 2 & 3 were harder than the test by SHL. I would say that it was close to test 4 in terms of difficulty.
Kind regards,
Andy |
| Philips | Senior Marketing Manager |      |      | |  thanks for helping me to suceed! :) |
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| PHSO | Caseworker SEO | |      |      |  The tests and practising certainly helped but unfortunately I didn't pass the tests. There was no feedback available so I do not know where I went wrong or how close (or otherwise) I came to passing |
| Police Job | Police Job | | |      |  I complete the written exercises and the situational judgement tests. I thought the packages were extremely good. I do think you should offer tests for higher management though as they were not strategic enough from the position I went for. |
| PriceWaterhouseCoopers | Graduate Position in Audit |      | |      |  Timings weren't the same but the questions were very similar. It is more about being able to practice under timed conditions than replicating the test exactly! |
| Procter & Gamble | Product Supply - Manufacturing Engineer |      |      |      |  Beat the competition with ease with theses tests....no other practice test comes near for the simple reasons that theses tests are exactly same standard and you get to see the explanation of the answers and then you know your fuck-up for real. Its amazing.....i use the skills in inductive reason to crush a test that previously embarrassed me. My confident has greatly quadrupled. Am currently hoarding it, you won't believe it, and for ONLY that price and a life time access, it is simply best! I know what am taking about. |
| procter&gamble | finance entrance position |      |      |      |  it was very useful to practice the tests before the real test in P&G. i passed it and i am invited for an interview. |
| professional services firm | managing director |      | | |  Never taken such tests before - found the notes very useful in understanding how to deal with the questions put forward - the questions in the test appeared harder than your examples but that might have been nerves! |
| professional testing | Portfolio manager |      |      |      |  Thanks for giving the opportunity to study for real test! |
| PwC | Director |      |      | |  Really helpful site, many thanks. My first attempts were not brilliant but the practice really helped and I ended up scoring \"Strong\" on both the official tests I sat. The questions were very similar in style and structure. |
| PwC | Graduate Assurance |      | |      |  Dear Sir/Ma'am
The numerical test were almost the same but the time required to complete the questions was not enough. They were designed by SHL. In the inductive reasoning tests, the diagrams of your websites match those of SHL to a very limited extent. The good news is that Assessment Day has been very helpful in preparing for these tests and I have passed the stage.
Thank you |
| PWC | Audit industrial placement |      | |      |  in all the real tests you were not allowed to scroll back to previous questions, there was 12 questions to be completed in 17 minutes and was very challenging questions! |
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| PwC | Graduate programme for Audit |      |      |      |  I passed my tests. The tests on the website were not quite the same as the ones I did on the day but they helped me get my brain thinking the right way. |
| PwC | Graduate Actuarial Trainee | | |      |  Assessment day inductive reasoning tests were WAYYYYY harder than the tests I took at PwC(which was SHL test, 20min 40 question, only required usually 1 'pattern' to solve the question as contrasted with your test that required 2 or even 3). However, it is good practice and I achieved 97th percentile for the actual test. |
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| PwC | Audit Placement |      | | |  Excellent tests, helped me considerably. Thank you |
| PwC | experienced hire |      | | |  I took a Kenexa test. Get a good internet connection for that one and don't use Mac! A lot of percentages for which Assessment Day prepared me well. I would have appreciated more currency conversions. |
| PwC | Assurance |      | |      |  These tests are slightly more difficult than those at PwC. It is better this way because when you become good at these tests (after much practice), the PwC ones seem much easier! |
| PwC | Intern |      |      |      |  The tests at the assessment centre were a lot more wordy, perhaps this could be incorporated into some of the tests.
Otherwise, they were extremely useful and definitely helped in securing my internship. |
| pwc | assurance |      | |      |  i think i had wasted my money by purchasing the e-book from your website ? because the online that i had taken for the PWC company is totaly different from the samples provided by you. esp. the numerical part? rubbish samples provided by you |
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| PwC | Senior Associate (Insolvency) |      | | |  Probably doubled my score with these tests just because lots of attempts increased my speed and improved my strategy. Offered the job, so well worth a weekend of test practice. |
| PwC | internship |      | | |  The tests were very helpful. I started from not understanding numerical tests to passing my assessments and getting a summer internship at PwC.
Possible ways you could improve the tests is by constantly updating them and offering newer versions, which people would buy additionally (also increasing your sales). Also numerical tests for consultancy and banks are pretty different so maybe you could have specialised tests for banks i.e. more inflation- based and exchange rate- based questions. |
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| PwC | Consultancy |      | | |  There were 17 questions and they were a lot harder than the questions I got given with your tests. Hence I failed. But that may have been on other sections as well. But numeracy was so much harder. |
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| PwC | Internship |      | |      |  Really Good tests, even though the format was different. The skills I needed were there.
However some of the explanations can be done better
I would suggest an option of seeing answers and explanations in the pop up window instead of comparing to the PDF
Also a section of general tips, such as quick ratio divisions etc. |
| PwC | Internship UK |      | |      |  The numerical reasoning tests was so much harder and the time is far more tight. Im not happy at all of these tests... |
| PwC, Deloitte, KPMG | Graduate scheme, audit |      |      |      |  Thank you for providing this service - it was invaluable in preparing for the online tests of the three companies above.
I have a few suggestions for how you could improve on the numerical reasoning test. This is my weakest area, and was the reason I signed up to the site for practice.
I found that with all 3 tests I was asked to sit, I was unable to change an answer I had submitted. This significantly increases the pressure of the test, and also changes exam technique - if no 'back' option is available it's not possible to return to more difficult questions. Perhaps you could provide a 'run in exam mode' option for the tests to simulate this?
I found the standard of your questions similar to the questions I was asked to do for Deloitte and PwC (SHL). However, KPMG's online test (Cubiks) was more difficult than yours. There was only 50 seconds allocated per question, and the questions were structured and presented to be deliberately awkward and easy to make mistakes on. For example, a large proportion of them were about differences between two values that required calucation using ratios/percentages/conversion multipliers (or a combination!) - a mistake in either calculation would result in the wrong answer. One question concerned male and female visitors to various shops, and the bar chart was colour-coded 'inversely', i.e. pink for males and light blue for females.
I would also like to say that the quality of the interface and graphics on your website is significantly better than that of the assessments I sat!
I hope this feedback is helpful in your continued improvement of this site.
Many thanks again,
Jonathan |
| PwC, Deloitte, KPMG, Grant Thornton, Baker Tilly | Graduate Trainee (Accountancy) |      |      |      |  Excellent practice for all three types of tests. A worthwhile investment. Tests were extremely similar to the actual ones, especially close to SHL tets. Level of difficulty perhaps a little harder than the actual tests I encountered, which meant I could work quickly and accurately in them. |
| PwC, KPMG | Graduate |      |      |      |  Thank you very much for this useful resources. I really found these test helpful for my application.
Numerical- of all the numerical tests that I have encountered, Asessmenday's tests were the easiest and simplest in terms of providing data and the questions you get asked. I think the difficulty level should be pushed up a bit more
Verbal- Couldn't be better
Inductive Resoning- as opposed to numerical, Assessmentday's inductive reasoning tests were the hardest, and this greatly helped me to prepare and relax for the actual ones. |
| RBS | Graduate Role- Retail Leadership |      | | | |
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| RBS,JPM,UBS,HSBC,DUETSHE,CREDIT SUSSIE, BARCAP | INVESTMENT BANK |      |      |      |  I have attend the UBS tests, its nothing similar from here !!! I have an upcoming test in RBS, have you got any investment bank numerical tests?!! urgent!!
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| Reed | Graduate Scheme |      | | |  I had 25 minutes to answer 18 questions, so there was far less time pressure than in the practice tests. The real thing being less stressful was a real bonus! |
| Reynolds Porter Chamberlain | Vaction Scheme | |      | |  Excellent tests. The explanations for the answers given in the answer papers was particularly helpful. The tests were easier than the actual one I took with SHL, but the reasoning behind the correct answers helped me to learn the skills required. Well worth the money. I got through to the next stage of the application process as a result of my success in the verbal reasoning test. |
| Rothschild | Investment Banking Analyst |      | | |  Superb product - helped me to pass the test on the day! Just like the SHL tests and if anything, slightly harder. Many thanks - only way to improve this is to add more practice tests. |
| Royal Navy | Logistics Officer |      |      |      |  Excellent! Such a big help. |
| Santander | Audit |      |      | |  Fantastic tests, found the real ones easier as a result.
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| SAUDI ARAMCO | R&D Lead Research |      |      |      |  I think the time was a big factor specially with the both Numerical Reasoning and Inductive Reasoning Tests but nevertheless, I think it was really helpful and fair. |
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| Secrate | Director |      |      |      |  Especially inductive reasoning was key for me to be prepared for the assesssment. It was very useful, however the test I had to complete was more complicated.
Otter test were not very beneficial because I am not native English speaker. It help to understand the Structure.
I was successful and got the Job.
Kind regards
Irene |
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| SHL | Accounting/Investment Bank |      | | |  I find the tests in this website are way easier than SHL level of problems.
Waste of my money |
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| StateStreet | Fund Accountant |      |      |      |  Great way to become perfect in numerical reasoning. I passed my test and got the job. Practice makes the Master !!!
Thanks,
Monika |
| Synovate | Graduate Market Research Executive |      |      | |  Your practice tests accurately reflected the timing and difficulty of the real tests. They were indispensable to passing. |
| Target | Consultant Intern |      |      | |  This is exactly what I needed before I tool the exam. Thank you for putting this together! |
| Tesco Graduate scheme | Finance graduate scheme |      | | |  My test was 20 minutes and more sophisticated than the sample tests I practiced. |
| Thames Water | Operational and Asset Management |      | | |  I passed this test. It was 18 questions in 25 min. The questions were hard and were similar to the numerical reasoning tests offered on Assessmentcentre.co.uk. Overall, the tests were very helpful.
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| tkk | engineer |      | | |  Sorry for my previous feedback! I couldnt open the pdf files, nothing worked until i got it, its the stupid google chrome web browser what's not working, you can only open pdfs with IE browser! |
| TOC | DSM |      |      | |  Its really really helpful and you tend to get a feeling of whats going to come in the assessment. |
| Total | Project engineer |      | | |  The practice tests were excellent for preparing for my tests and provided some new and quicker techniques in the explanations for tackling problems.I passed my tests! |
| Total E&P UK | Graduate Engineer! |      | |      |  The tests in the assessment day were numerical and abstract reasoning. Questions in the numerical reasoning were completely different from the one included in this website as the questions over there were very simple and no calculators were allowed. But it dosnt mean that these tests are not helpfull i have done some other tests as well in which the questions were very similar to the one on the website. It only depends what comes in your assessment. The other test was abstract reasoning which was also a bit different from indctive reasoning. Overall th tests on this site are very usefull and very competative and help a lot to improve the skills, but unfortunately for the assessment day which I had it didnt worked so well as type of questions were different. |
| Towers Watson | Analyst |      |      | |  Your tests appear to have fewer amounts of exchange rate /currency based questions and it it those that i stuggled with the most. i found that shl tests often had these sorts of questions. |
| Training scheme | Public Health |      |      |      |  Would be useful to have tests where calculators are not allowed. Your tests relied heavily on graphs, which was not useful for me. Would be useful to have more basic maths such as fractions and long division without using a calculator. |
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| Tubelines | Graduate Scheme |      |      | |  I think the tests are nice and hoping to take my test during the weekend, but I have some problems with the verbal reasoning. Sometimes when the writer likes, he uses time to suit his needs.
Let me explain, as in some passages, he tells us that "we don't know when the passage was written we can't for sure ascertain some facts" then other instances when faces with similar scenarios, he then uses a different approach as if the passage was written for the present day and answers the questions based on that. I think we should all assume that any passage we are reading represents the present day unless their are dates attached, so he doesn't go back and forth choosing when or not the passage is present or not.
Aside from that it's been a nice and educative experience which should greatly assist me in my quest to finally conquer the world of phycometric tests. |
| TUI Travel | Graduate Business Development Manager |      | | |  I passed the tests fine, but they were NOTHING like the practice tests suggested. TUI's tests were multiple choice but there were a drop down menu of MANY options, not the a,b,c,d as these practice tests suggest. Also there is a timed limit on each question, not just the whole test. |
| UBS | Sales and Trading Associate |      | | |  The UBS numerical reasoning test was 20minutes with 20 questions. The difficulty of the questions was roughly the same as your tests only your tests had more questions in a shorter time period. I found that practicing with more questions in a tighter time using your tests helped me to feel more relaxed when taking the actual test for UBS |
| Ubs | Dealer role |      | | |  The test was 21 questions in 21 minutes. With the help of your teats, I achieved 90 percent on the exam. Thanks |
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| UBS | Graduate Tranee |      | | |  Numerical tests helped for certain types of questions however didn't cover the variety that appeared on the real test. |
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| UBS | Graduate Training Program |      | | |  The actual numerical test though differ from the Assessmentday package in terms of presentation, i think the practice is nevertheless very useful. |
| UBS | Financial markets |      | |      |  The numerical was practically the same. The assesmentday test are a great practice for the real test.
however, the inductive tests have different rules than the real tests but it is a great practive as well |
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| UBS | Investment Banking Analyst |      | | |  Numerical Reasoning Tests were 20mins. |
| UK Civil Service Fast Stream | Parliamentary Clerk |      | | |  Good, hard tests - probably more difficult than the one I was practising for. Also very good customer service. One useful feature would be an ability to track your progress and see which tests you have already taken. But overall I am very satisfied. |
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| Various (including RBS, Lloyds TSB, HSBC) | GBM Technology |      | |      |  I think the practice tests need to be harder! I have failed all the real tests so far despite doing ok on the practice tests on here. The style of the tests match but the difficulty is very different. |
| VESTAS | Graduate scheme |      | |      |  The tests were very good and it did help me to improve my results |
| Vlerick Leuven-Ghent management school (Belgium) | Masters in general management |      | | |  The test I had to take was about 30 minutes long and about 40 questions to answer, so pretty similar. The questions I had to solve though were relatively easy compared to the tests you offer, because of the extra time pressure.
I have to say it's definitely worth £ 7,99, real good preparation. |
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| vodafone | director |      |      | | |
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| Vodafone and Henkel | MBA program and Corporate Internal Auditor | | |      |  Cleared both the tests.
Vodafone was an inductive reasoning test and Henkel was a verbal and numerical reasoning test.
I only used the inductive reasoning tests from you site and they were very helpful. Though the form of the questions were different, it helped build my speed and the results were very favorable. :-)
Now next steps!! |
| Vodfone | Head of Marketing Projects |      |      |      |  The SHL manager tests were far harder than the practice tests here. Saying that, without the preparation using these tests they would have been even more difficult. |
| Volvo | Business Administrator |      |      |      |  Great training tool |
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| Westpac | Graduate Position |      |      |      |  All of my tests were 20 minutes, the inductive reasoning was kind of different but I think they are special in the way they don't do SHL tests. I actually found the numerical and verbal easier on the actual test than on your practice tests! But that was a nice surprise. |
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| Witheld | Sales Manager |      |      |      |  I was advised that I would have to sit a psychometric test for the position of Sales Manager. As with any application the motto is ‘Be Prepared’. Your suite of products were invaluable. The first few tests I completed my scores were not very good but after practicing my test scores started to increase, I was amazed at the difference in the space of a week. Having now sat the test for real, I can happily say that I passed with flying colours. |
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| xx | Chemical engineering |      |      | |  Had always struggled with numerical and verbal reasoning tests and was having problems progressing in applications because of it. After some practice on the website and reading the guidance brochure I have been sucessful and been offered a graduate job |
| xyz | xyz |      |      |      |  Hi
I find the numeracy tests difficult one as my maths skills are not great and two because on some of the graphs it is hard to differentiate the blue colours when printed out. But worse still there is one answer that i think you have wrong please check practice test 9 question2 - I think the answer is C not A as the final calculation is 70,500 not 61,250. If you look back at your answer sheet you will see someone has typed the wrong number. It is also wrong online I think.For a duffer like me this is quite distressful as no matter what I didn't I couldn't get you answer! otherwise - thanks it is helping I think... I hope. |
| Zurich, Siemens | Life insurance, Project management |      |      | |  Verbal tests for Zurich were 30 questions for 15 minutes but there were short passages with few questions. Both companies tests were not difficult in my view. I am currently waiting for an answer from Siemens. |