Kreston Reeves Assessment Practice
Preparation guide for Kreston Reeves's assessment process, covering what the evidence shows and what it does not
What the evidence actually shows
Kreston Reeves is a UK accountancy and business advisory firm. Its entry is one of the most useful in this cluster because the testimonial, attributed to Sasha Dickerson, actually names the tests: "Critical Thinking, verbal reasoning and Psychometric", used to sift graduate and school leaver apprenticeship applicants. Kreston Reeves also appears on Test Partnership's homepage logo wall.
Three named formats is unusually specific for a testimonial, and it is still marketing copy from the vendor rather than a dated case study or a statement on the firm's own careers site. Treat it as a strong indication of what to practise rather than as a guarantee of what you will sit this cycle.
Where the assessment sits in the process
- An online application through the Kreston Reeves careers site
- A critical thinking test, published by Test Partnership
- A verbal reasoning test
- A personality questionnaire
- Interviews, and for some routes an assessment day
Kreston Reeves Roles With This Process
Graduate & Early Careers
- Graduate trainee: audit, tax and business advisory
- School leaver apprenticeship
- Placement and summer roles
Experienced Hire
- Qualified accountants across audit, tax and advisory
- Corporate finance and restructuring
- Business services and client support
Top Tips
The critical thinking test is four skills, not one
Test Partnership's Concepts critical thinking test mixes constraint deduction, conclusion evaluation, argument strength and inference in a single sitting, each on its own response scale, with the clock attached to the block rather than the question. Practise all four: candidates are rarely equally good at them.
Verbal reasoning here is the five-point inference scale
Not True / False / Cannot Say. Test Partnership uses Definitely True, Probably True, Insufficient Information, Probably False, Definitely False. The line between "Definitely" and "Probably" is whether the passage puts it beyond reasonable doubt, and calibrating that is most of the skill.
The personality questionnaire has nothing to beat
If it is TPAQ, it is a profile across nine global factors with no overall score, untimed and adaptive. Answer it as you generally are rather than as you think an accountancy firm wants, and use the whole scale: a profile made of neutral answers tells the firm nothing.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which tests does Kreston Reeves use?
Its testimonial on Test Partnership's site names critical thinking, verbal reasoning and a psychometric questionnaire, used for graduate and school leaver apprenticeship sifting. That is the vendor publishing a customer quote, so it is first-party evidence about its own customer but it is undated marketing.
Is the critical thinking test the same as Watson Glaser?
No. Both are critical thinking appraisals and they share some item types, but the scales and the timing model differ. Test Partnership clocks each block of questions rather than the whole paper, and its argument evaluation runs on six points rather than strong or weak.
Do school leavers sit the same tests as graduates?
The testimonial covers both routes together and does not separate them. Test Partnership does sell shorter early-stage versions of several of its products, so the configuration may differ even if the formats do not.