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Numerical Reasoning Test Guide

This guide will help you develop the skills, knowledge and strategies you need to demonstrate your strengths when taking numerical tests. It's a competitive job market out there and employers are increasingly turning to numerical tests to help them make choices about who to invite to interview. To maximise your chances of success in the hunt for a job you need to give yourself an edge by ensuring that your numerical test performance does not let you down. You should use this guide alongside the practice test questions on the AssessmentDay website to take your numerical test performance to its highest level.

This guide has been written by a charted occupational psychologist who is a director of a leading psychometric test publisher. By taking on- board the advice contained within this guide you will be getting expert coaching from a leading voice of the psychometric testing industry.

Part 1: Know what you're up against

  • How a numerical test works
  • What maths do I need to know?
  • What is high-level critical reasoning?
  • The top-five professional level numerical tests used by employers
  • Part 2: Become a test-taking black belt

  • How strategies make the difference to your score
  • Preparing for your test
  • Focus, nerves and concentration
  • Effective test session behaviours
  • Online testing vs. paper and pencil tests
  • Why not cheat?
  • Part 3: Developing your numerical ability

  • Key numerical abilities to develop
  • Moving your score upwards
  • Where else to practice
  • Part 4: Your rights as a test-taker

  • What the employer should tell you up front about the test
  • Should your test be adjusted?
  • What to do if the test session goes badly?
  • What happens to your test score
  • What to do about test score feedback
  • A final word
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