Passing numerical and verbal reasoning tests!

Can someone recommend a good (and preferably, but not essentially, free) source where there are practice questions for such tests? The kind of tests that you get on graduate job on-line tests and stuff. Thanks

Try SHL, you have to register your details but it's all free.

http://www.shldirect.com/practice_tests.html

Can someone recommend a good (and preferably, but not essentially, free) source where there are practice questions for such tests? The kind of tests that you get on graduate job on-line tests and stuff. Thanks

yeah, i know that feeling, you feeling all confident and then you get to the actual exam questions, you feel like you dont have enough time and they ask questions that requires you to convert two or three times to get the answer or distance, time, speed questions. it sucks.

I just have to say, that I've looked at numericaltesthelp and did their practice test, and it was fairly simple. Scored 16/20 without really breaking much of a sweat and answered all the questions. I think that's highly unrealistic considering that in most of the SHL tests I have done, I ran out of time and answered about 15 questions out of 20.

Assessment Day pretty much paints the same picture. I've been looking through their example questions/answers and they're pretty simple. By simple, I mean that there's usually a question about percentages and you get the exact answer.

In ACTUAL SHL tests, I normally end up with an answer that looks roughly similar, eg I obtain 675.334582 and the options are:

a) 552.78
b) 850.35
c) 678.56
d) 320.22
e) 438.91

Now in this scenario, I'd probably pick c, but I'd be so annoyed at the fact that it's not even the same general area... 675 and 678 are so off that I'd think that I'd made a mistake. Now, I don't know whether I got that right or wrong, but giving me an easy question where I obtain 675.334582 on my calculator and where my options are

a) 952.78
b) 150.35
c) 675.33
d) 20.21
e) Don't know.

Then CLEARLY the answer has to be c. However, it's a ridiculously simple question and real tests are nothing like that.

Sorry, just wanted to rant about the lack of practice facilities. The 10 minute practice before the actual test has harder questions than Assessment Day/Numericaltesthelp.

If anyone can point to anywhere that gives us questions that are actually like the SHL tests for finance/analytical grad schemes I'd appreciate it.

I just have to say, that I've looked at numericaltesthelp and did their practice test, and it was fairly simple. Scored 16/20 without really breaking much of a sweat and answered all the questions. I think that's highly unrealistic considering that in most of the SHL tests I have done, I ran out of time and answered about 15 questions out of 20.

Assessment Day pretty much paints the same picture. I've been looking through their example questions/answers and they're pretty simple. By simple, I mean that there's usually a question about percentages and you get the exact answer.

In ACTUAL SHL tests, I normally end up with an answer that looks roughly similar, eg I obtain 675.334582 and the options are:

a) 552.78
b) 850.35
c) 678.56
d) 320.22
e) 438.91

Now in this scenario, I'd probably pick c, but I'd be so annoyed at the fact that it's not even the same general area... 675 and 678 are so off that I'd think that I'd made a mistake. Now, I don't know whether I got that right or wrong, but giving me an easy question where I obtain 675.334582 on my calculator and where my options are

a) 952.78
b) 150.35
c) 675.33
d) 20.21
e) Don't know.

Then CLEARLY the answer has to be c. However, it's a ridiculously simple question and real tests are nothing like that.

Sorry, just wanted to rant about the lack of practice facilities. The 10 minute practice before the actual test has harder questions than Assessment Day/Numericaltesthelp.

If anyone can point to anywhere that gives us questions that are actually like the SHL tests for finance/analytical grad schemes I'd appreciate it.

You were not along. You try to get things right and get stuck on 1-2 questions, start panicking and mess things up...How did you get on with your applications? do you feel like getting through not all questions (say 17 out of 20) is a almost certainly a non-pass?