Numerical Reasoning Test Practice
Tables, charts and percentages against a one-minute clock. The maths is GCSE level. The time pressure is not.
Numerical Reasoning Practice Tests

Numerical Reasoning
Interpret financial tables and charts to answer data-driven questions. Mirrors the SHL Verify Numerical Reasoning test format.

scales numerical (Numerical Reasoning)
Find the right figures across tabbed tables and charts, then judge statements about them. Twelve minutes with negative marking, so knowing when to skip matters as much as calculating. Mirrors the Aon cut-e scales numerical test.

Numerical Analysis
Interpret revenue tables, budget charts, and business data to answer arithmetic and trend questions. Part of the Saville Swift Analysis battery.

Elements Numerical
Interpret tables of business data and answer questions from a long list of options, so guessing rarely helps. Each question is individually timed, with more time for the first question on a new table. Difficulty adapts to your performance. Mirrors the Talent Q Elements Numerical test.

Occupational Math
The maths part of the USA Hire battery: percentages, fractions, proportions, equations, geometry and probability as short word problems with five options. Five minutes per question; have your own calculator ready.

Arithmetic Reasoning (AR)
The CAT-ASVAB word-problem subtest: 15 adaptive questions in 55 minutes with US units and dollars, and no calculator. It counts towards your AFQT and the Army GT score; you get a standard score and what it would mean for your AFQT.

Mathematics Knowledge (MK)
The CAT-ASVAB mathematics subtest: 15 adaptive questions in 31 minutes on number facts, algebra, geometry with figures, and probability, with no calculator or formula sheet. It counts towards your AFQT.

Logiks Numerical
Rapid mental arithmetic, number series, percentages and short word problems. Mirrors the numerical section of the Cubiks Logiks General test - quick calculation, no data tables.

Numerical Reasoning
Interpret data tables and charts to answer arithmetic and trend questions within a contextualised job simulation. Select the correct answer from five options. Mirrors the numerical component included in many Cappfinity assessments.

Numerical Reasoning
Rapid mental arithmetic, number series and percentages mirroring the numerical items in the PI Cognitive Assessment (PICA). No data tables - quick calculation under time pressure.

CCAT Math & Logic
Basic algebra, proportions, word problems, number series and logic items from the math and logic third of the CCAT. No calculator, exactly as in the real test - the arithmetic is deliberately doable in your head if you spot the shortcut.

EEI Mathematical Usage
Mathematical Usage in its short form (18 questions in 7 minutes, CAST 2009, MASS and POSS) or long form (46 in 17 minutes, POSS version two): conversions, formulas, algebra and word problems from printed facts, with "N" for none of these.

EEI Graphic Arithmetic
Graphic Arithmetic from CAST and CAST-R: 16 questions in 30 minutes on two dimensioned drawings that are not to scale. Also runs as TECH Graphic Problem Solving, one small drawing per question.

digitChallenge (Numerical Agility)
Complete arithmetic equations by dropping in the missing digits, using each digit from 1 to 9 only once per equation. Six minutes of fast mental arithmetic and constraint tracking. Mirrors the Aon smartPredict digitChallenge.

Revelian Numerical Reasoning Test (RNRT)
Revelian’s separately sold numerical paper: 25 questions in 12 minutes. Number series, number matrices and word problems, with the answer typed rather than chosen, and no calculator.

Revelian Cognitive Ability Test (RCAT)
The full Revelian paper: 51 verbal, numerical and abstract questions in 20 minutes, rotating between the three types the way Revelian streams them. You can move backwards and forwards, nothing is deducted for a wrong answer, and most candidates do not finish.

GCAT Numerical Drill
The GCAT's numerical questions on their own: 20 in 10 minutes, adaptive, six options, no calculator. Number series, missing numbers, odd one out, number pairs and short word problems. A practice format, not a separate Podium test.

GCAT General Reasoning (NZ Police Ability Assessment)
The full Podium GCAT as NZ Police sets it: 60 six-option questions in 30 minutes, verbal, numerical and abstract mixed in one sequence, adaptive, with one clock, no per-question limit and no going back.

GIA Number Speed & Accuracy
Three numbers appear. Find the highest and the lowest, decide which of the two is further from the third, and click it. Mental arithmetic only, no calculator.

Kenexa Numerical Reasoning
Interpret tables and charts to answer 20 five-option questions in 20 minutes. Business finance, percentages and ratios at GCSE level, with a calculator allowed. Mirrors the Kenexa / IBM numerical reasoning test (NRT).

DAA Numerical Reasoning
Two separately timed parts, no calculator: 12 fraction, decimal and equation questions in 4 minutes, then 15 graph and table questions in 11 minutes. Mirrors the Numerical Reasoning section of the Defence Aptitude Assessment.

Q1000 Capaciteiten
The Dutch Assessio Bloom capacity battery, sold as eelloo until 2024: four timed subtests back to back, each question on its own clock of twenty-five to seventy seconds, with no going back. Diagrammen gives you twenty-five seconds a question, the tightest budget of any test on this site.

Bridge Numeriek (Numerical)
Dense multi-column business tables and charts with five options, where "None of the above" is a standing fifth option on every question rather than an occasional one. 25 questions on one 17-minute clock, calculator allowed, skip and return. Mirrors the Bridge Numeriek subtest of The Bridge Ability Suite.

Bridge Ability Online (korte capaciteitentest)
TestGroup's 18-minute unproctored screener, sent to large groups early in a process. Numerical, verbal and abstract blocks on a single clock, scored per domain as well as overall. A separate product from the full Bridge Ability Suite, not a section of it, and TestGroup's own report recommends re-testing on the supervised Suite when the decision matters.

Cijferreeksen (Numerical Reasoning)
Ixly number series with a 45-second clock on every item and no way back. The row follows a rule: a constant step, a changing multiplier, or two series interleaved so the pattern skips a cell. An unanswered item is marked wrong.

Insights Numerical Reasoning
Five question sets, each a chart or table with three questions and one shared three-minute budget. Ten near-miss options per question and a calculator expected, matching the Test Partnership Insights numerical test.

MindmetriQ Net the Numbers
Move a net across a grid of numbers to capture the highest possible total. The grid contains negatives, so the tile that looks biggest is often the wrong place to land.

Numerical Reasoning
Read a table or chart of business data and calculate the answer. No clock on screen, but Sova records how long each correct answer takes and scores it alongside accuracy. A calculator is expected.

ACER Numeracy
Applied adult maths in Australian contexts with an onscreen calculator, the only ACER component that provides one. 30 questions in 35 minutes, answered by multiple choice, by typing a number that carries a unit, or by judging several true or false statements at once. Rounding is tolerated the way ACER tolerates it.

Redrock Analysis
Growth rates, ratios, proportions and weighted means from the data you collected, using a calculator that logs every result at full precision so you can reuse it instead of retyping it. The questions chain, so one wrong intermediate poisons everything after it.

Redrock Cases
Six independent data mini-cases under one shared clock: word problems, formula identification, verbal reasoning and chart choice. There is no per-case timer, so one case you overrun is paid for by the cases you never reach.

Redrock Report
Fill the blanks in a research summary, choose the chart type that fits the data, and populate it. Graded on accuracy, not prose. Choosing a line chart where the data compares categories is a common and entirely avoidable loss.

Numerosity
Pick the numbers that combine to the target under a stated operation, climbing a level ladder against a three-minute clock.

Cijferpatronen (Number Patterns)
The number part of the Dutch police cognitietest: series, two-number tiles and small tables with one number missing, which you type in. No options to work back from and no calculator. Adaptive, with more time on harder items.

Numerical Scenarios
Twenty prison numeracy questions in 15 minutes: count the people in a picture, total a roll, work out money left, fractions, staffing ratios, tables and 24-hour clock faces. Four options, a calculator allowed, no going back.

Connector Ability: Number Series
The third part of Connector Ability (Cijferreeksen). A row of numbers with one hidden, at the end or in the middle, and four options. The arithmetic is basic and the rule is the hard part. No calculator, adaptive, 90 seconds an item.

Connector Ability (Full Test)
The whole Connector Ability in one sitting: Figure Series, Matrices and Number Series in GITP’s order, each adaptive with its own clock on every item and an untimed break between parts. Your overall result is estimated from every answer together, as GITP’s G-factor is.

Civil Service Numerical Test
A table of data, with the chart a tap away, and a question with five answers. Adaptive and untimed like the real test, calculator expected, and every wrong option built from a common slip.

ACT Number Fluency
Work out one calculation, then a second, then say which result was greater: First, Last or Same. You never see both at once, and there is no calculator.

Technical Selection Test (TST)
A 55-question GCSE-level maths paper in 45 minutes for technical trades: number, ratio, algebra, geometry, data and word problems. Five options, no negative marking, and you move freely between questions.

Rechnen (Arithmetic)
Short calculations and word problems on proportions, percentages, fractions, units, averages, areas and speed, with four options, pencil and paper and no calculator. Adaptive over five levels, written with German number conventions.

PSET Numbers
The numbers element of the Police Scotland Entrance Test: 20 policing word problems in 24 minutes covering speed and distance, crowd ratios, money, percentages, times, durations in years and months, and averages. Every answer is a figure you type, with no options and no calculator.

PSET Information Handling
The information handling element of the Police Scotland Entrance Test: three tables and grouped bar charts with 16 questions in 20 minutes. Find figures, work out differences, totals and percentages, and name the largest or smallest category. The charts have gridlines and no values on the bars, as the real ones do.

Email Inbox Reasoning
The Applied Intellect items from Amberjack’s blended assessment: emails from colleagues in an inbox, each ending in a query. Verbal emails give you three replies to choose from; numerical ones carry a table and a chart and four answers, with a calculator expected. Ten emails in three inbox runs, no clock.

Clevry Numerical Reasoning (Enhanced)
The mid level, once sold as B2C: shop and small business figures, four questions a page, five options with Cannot say on some, 18 minutes. The largest numerical comparison group Clevry publishes.

Clevry Numerical Reasoning (Essential)
Work arithmetic for operatives, apprentices and team leaders: rotas, pay rates, production counts. Four questions a page, five options, 15 minutes.

Clevry Numerical Reasoning (Expert)
The graduate level, once sold as Utopia: four data sets from a magazine publisher, four questions each, five options with Cannot say on some. 20 minutes, and you bring your own calculator.

TMA Logisch Cijfermatig Inzicht (Number Series)
Twenty-six number series on one 20-minute clock: choose the next number from four. TMA builds every rule from adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing, sometimes two at once. The most language-free part of the TMA Capaciteitenanalyse.

TMA Rekenvaardigheid (Arithmetic)
Thirty-nine sums with five answers each in 8 minutes, about 12 seconds a sum, with no calculator. They start easy and get harder, and TMA says speed and accuracy both count.

Cijferreeksen test
LTP’s number series test: twenty-eight series in fifteen minutes, about thirty-two seconds each, choosing the next number from five with no calculator. It is also the number series part of the G-test and the retest LTP uses for numerical ability.

Numerieke Vaardigheden test (NIT)
LTP’s numerical test, also called the Numerieke Inzichttest: eight tables and graphs with five questions on each, forty questions in twenty-five minutes. A calculator is allowed, and some questions cannot be answered from the data at all.

G-test
LTP’s general ability test: fifty non-verbal items with matrices, number series, number analogies, figure analogies, figure series and pattern folding mixed through one paper. LTP does not publish the time limit; this uses the twenty minutes preparation sites report, and nobody is expected to finish.

Arithmetic (Rekenen)
Bare sums with one value missing, whole numbers and decimals, no word problems and no calculator. 30 items in 5 minutes: ten seconds each, the fastest clock in the battery. Mirrors the Rekenvaardigheid subtest of the NOA MCT-M and MCT-H.

Number Series (Logisch nadenken met cijfers)
Find the next number in a row built on a rule: constant steps, multipliers, alternating steps and operations, series woven together. 30 items in 15 minutes, five options each. Mirrors the Cijferreeksen subtest of the NOA capaciteitentest, and Harver’s Numerical Reasoning (Number Sequences).

MCT-A Adaptive Capacity Test
NOA’s adaptive capaciteitentest: six parts, word relations, word analogies, arithmetic, number series, exclusion and components, with one minute on every question and the next question harder or easier depending on the last. An unanswered question brings an easier one. Ten questions a part.

Numerical Reasoning (Number Sequences)
A row of numbers follows a rule: find the one that comes next. 30 items in 15 minutes, five options each, from constant steps to alternating operations. Mirrors the Numerical Reasoning (Number Sequences) subtest of Harver’s NOA Cognitive Ability module.

EPSO Numerical Reasoning
Ten questions on EU-style tables and charts in 20 minutes, five options each, with "None of the above" standing as option E on many of them. The options sit close together, so an on-screen calculator is provided, and it ignores Enter the way EPSO tells you to. No pass mark of its own: EPSO adds it to abstract reasoning and needs 10 out of 20 across the two.

Master ACE (Adaptive Reasoning)
The adaptive Adjustable Competence Evaluation: 12 questions in 30 minutes mixing number problems, figure matrices, word analogies and logic grids. Each answer sets the difficulty of the next, a calculator is allowed, and a skipped question counts as a wrong one.

General Competency Test: Level 2 Abridged (GCT-2A)
The GCT-2A-324 that replaced the GCT2-314 in July 2025: number and letter series, office numerical problems and analytical reasoning sets, 50 questions in 120 minutes with a calculator. Free navigation, Mark for Review and a question list as on the Candidate Assessment Tool, scored against the real pass mark of 31 out of 50. Half paper option.

General Competency Test: Level 1 (GCT-1)
The GCT-1-207 used in place of a secondary school diploma: short memos, practical numerical problems and rules to apply, including the A only, B only, Both or Neither questions. 50 questions in 85 minutes with a calculator, scored against the real pass mark of 28 out of 50. Half paper option.

TestGorilla Numerical Reasoning
Twelve questions in 10 minutes across TestGorilla's four skill areas: number patterns, fractions and percentages, text and tables, and charts and graphs. One question per screen, no going back, and a skip counts as wrong. Four options each and no penalty for a wrong answer, so always guess.

TestGorilla Basic Double-Digit Math
15 questions in 10 minutes, four options each: a missing number in a sum, multiples and products, the minutes between two clock times, and rounding. TestGorilla's basic maths screen for retail, hospitality and warehouse roles, generated fresh every sitting.

TestGorilla Basic Triple-Digit Math
The harder sibling of Double-Digit: three-digit sums with terms on both sides, 'not a multiple of' questions, primes, simple fractions and durations in hours, minutes and seconds. 15 questions in 10 minutes, four options each, generated fresh every sitting.

TestGorilla Intermediate Math
Half fractions and decimals, half percentages, rates, ratios and durations in days, hours and minutes, with fractions drawn stacked as TestGorilla draws them. 15 questions in 10 minutes, four options each, generated fresh every sitting.

TestGorilla Basic Math Calculations
Three-digit addition, subtraction, multiplication and division set as equations with a blank anywhere, such as 432 − ? = 187, with every answer typed and no options to guess from. 15 questions in 10 minutes (TestGorilla does not publish the count, so 15 is ours).

NFA Working with Numbers
Thirty-two questions in 45 minutes across six fire service scenarios: read gauges, stock tables, breathing apparatus air times, hose plans and incident charts, then add, subtract, multiply, divide, round up and work across the hour. No calculator, as in the real paper test.
What Numerical Reasoning Measures
Data interpretation
Finding the two or three figures that actually answer the question and ignoring the rest of the table. Most items include distractor columns that look relevant and are not.
Speed with accuracy
Typical tests allow 60 to 90 seconds per question. Employers care about the combination: a fast candidate who makes errors scores no better than a slow careful one.
Estimation and judgement
Answer options are usually spaced far enough apart that a sound estimate identifies the right one. Recognising when an estimate is safe is a large part of the skill.
Question Formats
Percentage change
Given a figure in two periods, express the movement as a percentage. This is the single most common question type in graduate numerical testing, and it is where reversing the base value costs the most marks.
Ratios and proportions
Split a total in a given ratio, or compare ratios across categories. Frequently combined with a currency conversion or a per-head figure in the same question.
Tables and charts
A single data set feeds three or four questions. Reading the units, the footnotes and the year headings correctly matters more than the arithmetic does.
Number sequences
Identify the rule linking a series and give the next term. Used by Criteria, Wonderlic and Predictive Index rather than by the classic data-table providers.
Mental arithmetic at speed
Chains of simple sums against a shrinking clock, as in the Aon digitChallenge. No data to interpret, just sustained accuracy under time pressure.
How to Prepare
Drill the four calculations that cover most questions
Percentage change, percentage of a total, ratio splits and simple averages account for the large majority of items. Rehearse them until you no longer think about the method.
Read the question before the table
Absorbing a data set you never use is the most common way to lose 20 seconds. Find out what is being asked, then go and get only those numbers.
Check the units every time
Thousands against millions, and the wrong year column, cause more wrong answers on these tests than the arithmetic does.
Never leave a question blank
Most numerical tests do not penalise wrong answers, so an educated guess is strictly better than a skip. Mark it, guess, move on.
Practise under the calculator rules you will face
SHL and Saville normally allow one. The Criteria CCAT and the Wonderlic normally do not. Practising with a calculator for a test that bans it builds the wrong habit.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a numerical reasoning test?
It is a timed test of how well you interpret numerical data and reach a correct conclusion from it. You are given tables, charts or figures and a multiple-choice question, and you have roughly a minute to answer. It is not a maths exam: no algebra, no formulas to recall, just accurate interpretation under time pressure.
How long is a numerical reasoning test?
Most sit between 15 and 35 minutes. SHL Verify numerical is commonly 18 minutes for 18 questions. Saville Numerical Analysis is typically 24 minutes. Aon scales numerical is shorter but adaptive, so the difficulty rises as you get items right.
Can you use a calculator in a numerical reasoning test?
It depends on the provider. SHL, Saville, Korn Ferry and Cubiks tests normally permit a basic calculator and are written on the assumption you have one. The Criteria CCAT, the Wonderlic and the Predictive Index Cognitive Assessment do not allow one. Always check the invitation email, because it will say.
What is a good score on a numerical reasoning test?
Scores are reported as percentiles against a comparison group rather than as a raw mark, so a good score depends on who you are compared against. For competitive graduate schemes, the pass mark commonly sits somewhere around the 50th to 70th percentile of a graduate norm group, which usually means answering most questions correctly.
How do I get faster at numerical reasoning?
Practise the calculation types rather than doing whole tests repeatedly. Percentage change, ratio splits and averages should be automatic before you worry about pacing. Then practise with a timer running, because the skill you actually need is deciding quickly when an estimate is good enough.
Which employers use numerical reasoning tests?
Nearly all large graduate employers in finance, consulting, law, engineering and the public sector. Barclays, HSBC and Santander screen with them, the Big 4 firms use them, and the Civil Service uses a numerical test supplied by Talogy. The vendor differs but the underlying format is very similar.
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