What the reasoning tests are
Cappfinity measures cognitive skills alongside behavioural ones, and typically works with employers to assess critical, numerical, verbal and diagrammatic reasoning. It also offers a coding potential test that needs no programming knowledge. You will not necessarily sit all of these: the mix depends on the role.
The numerical questions present a range of job-related situations that involve calculations, and Cappfinity’s advice is to have a calculator at hand, plus a pen and paper for notes. The verbal questions assess how you work with verbal information and critically evaluate passages, and Cappfinity says there are many different question types, so do not expect a single format throughout.
Cappfinity’s preparation hub has free practice questions, which it describes as a preview of the types of question you may meet in your assessment.
Timing and scoring
Timing is set per assessment. Cappfinity says some have no time limit, while others have one for the whole assessment or per question, and you will be told in the instructions and on screen. Its cognitive assessments are sometimes time recorded, meaning the time you take may be considered when your score is calculated. You will be told if so, and the advice in that case is to work as quickly and accurately as possible.
EDF’s 2023 guide, which pointed candidates to Cappfinity’s hub for practice, gives one published example. Its numerical test had 12 questions on interpreting workplace information and data, allowed a calculator, let candidates spend as long as they liked on each question, and had to be completed in one sitting. Cappfinity does not publish its scoring method beyond the time-recording rule above.
How our practice version works
Our numerical game gives you 10 questions drawn from a pool of 20, each with business data as a table, chart or graph and five options, sometimes including "Cannot determine". Each question has its own 60-second clock. There is no calculator on screen, so keep your own beside you, as Cappfinity advises.
Our verbal game gives you 12 statements drawn from a pool of 24. Each follows a short passage and you mark it True, False or Cannot Say, with 50 seconds per statement. That is one verbal format; Cappfinity says its verbal tests use several, so expect others on the day.
Both games are timed per question and deduct nothing for wrong answers. The real tests may be untimed or timed differently, so check your invitation and treat our clock as practice at working briskly rather than as Cappfinity’s limit.