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Ten question types graduate schemes actually use, with the method, the traps and a timed practice set for each.
Calculation
Speed and accuracy with arithmetic you already know: adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing whole numbers, decimals, fractions and percentages, and finding a missing number in a short equation.
12 questions, 10 min
Checking information
Whether you can compare two versions of the same detail, a name, a code, an address, a figure, and spot every difference quickly.
50 questions, 5 min
Deductive reasoning
Whether you can take a set of rules as given and work out what must follow from them, and only that.
18 questions, 20 min
Inductive reasoning
Whether you can find the rule behind a sequence of figures or numbers from the examples alone, and use it to say what comes next.
24 questions, 25 min
Numerical reasoning
Whether you can read a table or chart, pick out the figures a question needs, and do the right sum with them under time.
18 questions, 25 min
Personality questionnaire
How you typically prefer to work: with people, with ideas and with pressure.
104 questions, 35 min
Reading comprehension
Whether you can find, understand and use information in a piece of writing: what it says, what a word means where it is used, what the writer's reason or main point is.
18 questions, 25 min
Situational judgement
How you would handle realistic situations at work: whether you act on the actual problem, involve the right person, keep the relationship and stay honest.
20 questions, 30 min
Verbal reasoning
Whether you can judge a short statement against a passage using only what the passage says: true if it says so, false if it contradicts it, cannot say if it does not settle the matter.
30 questions, 19 min
Working with information
Whether you can take a written set of conditions and apply them to a table, row by row, without missing a condition or misreading a boundary.
20 questions, 10 min