Can You Cheat AMCAT? Each Answer Sets the Next
AMCAT picks each question from your last answer, so no two candidates sit the same paper and a list of last week's questions does not describe yours.
Each answer decides the next question, prohibited behaviour brings warnings and then an automatic shutdown, and one score goes to every company hiring through AMCAT.
Each answer sets the next question
AMCAT is adaptive. A correct answer brings a tougher question and a wrong one an easier question, and AMCAT says your score depends on the level of the questions you get right. That makes every sitting different. Two candidates in the same hall on the same day see different questions after the first one, because they answered the first one differently.
It also means the familiar shortcut, a list of “AMCAT questions asked last week” passed around a college group, does not do what it promises. It describes the path someone else took through the test, not yours.
What the rules say
The clock leaves no room for a lookup
The modules are short and tight: 12 Logical Ability questions in 15 minutes, 18 English questions in 18, and 14 or 16 quantitative questions in 20. A search or a message to a friend that takes two minutes is two questions you never reach, and questions left at the end are lost. On an adaptive test, a rushed guess after a lookup can also send the difficulty down, which lowers what every later right answer is worth.
One score, many companies
AMCAT is not a single employer's test. AMCAT says your score is valid for the other companies recruiting through it, and after a retake each company chooses whether to use your latest, best or average score. A sitting that is shut down for prohibited behaviour, or a weak score from a rushed attempt, is not something you leave behind with one application. The next retake is 45 days away and paid for again.
The preparation that does raise a score
You can practise AMCAT's English, quantitative, Logical Ability and Information Gathering modules on an adaptive engine at the syllabus clocks, with your accuracy broken down by topic.