Verbal Reasoning Test Practice

Read short passages and decide whether statements are True, False, or Cannot Say. Mirrors the SHL Verify Verbal Reasoning test format.

Six short passages with three questions each, one question per screen and the passage alongside: the main point, a stated detail, an inference and the problem the author wants solved. Fifteen minutes, forward only.

Switch between tabbed workplace documents to judge statements as True, False, or Cannot Say. Twelve minutes, more items than anyone finishes, and wrong answers subtract marks. Mirrors the Aon cut-e scales verbal test.

Read passages of text and judge whether statements are True, False, or Cannot Say. Part of the Saville Swift Analysis battery used in financial services and government roles.

Read a business passage, then answer three questions on it from six options each. There is no overall time limit - each question has its own clock, and the first question on a passage gets longer because it includes reading time. Difficulty adapts as you go. Mirrors the Talent Q Elements Verbal test.

The reading comprehension part of the USA Hire battery: short government notices, policies and tables, each with one question and four options. Five minutes per question, and it adapts to your answers.

The CAT-ASVAB vocabulary subtest: 15 adaptive questions in 9 minutes, some on a word alone and some on a word in a sentence, in American English. Half of your verbal score, which counts twice in the AFQT.

The CAT-ASVAB reading subtest: 10 adaptive questions in 27 minutes, each on its own short passage, asking for facts, sequence, conclusions, the main idea and the author’s purpose. The other half of your verbal score.

Fast-paced word analogies, synonyms, antonyms, odd-one-out and sentence completion. Mirrors the verbal section of the Cubiks Logiks General test - pure language, no reading passages.

Read a short passage and judge whether each statement is True, False, or Cannot Say based only on the text. Mirrors the verbal and critical-thinking component included in many Cappfinity assessments.

Fast word analogies, synonyms, antonyms and sentence completion mirroring the verbal items in the PI Cognitive Assessment (PICA). Pure language, tight timing.

Antonyms, synonyms, analogies, sentence completion and word-in-context items from the verbal third of the CCAT. Five options each, one clock for the whole set, and nothing deducted for a wrong answer.

Reading Comprehension as CAST (32 questions in 30 minutes), MASS and POSS (36 in 30) or SO/PD II (26 in 22) runs it: passages like power plant training and safety manuals, four options, answered strictly from the passage.

Revelian’s separately sold verbal paper: 35 questions in 10 minutes, the tightest clock in the family. Odd-two-out of six words, synonyms and antonyms, analogies and short deductions.

The GCAT's verbal questions on their own: 20 in 10 minutes at the real test's 30 seconds each, adaptive, six options. Synonyms, word meanings, opposites, odd one out, analogies and word groups. A practice format, not a separate Podium test.

Three words, two of them related by similar or opposite meaning. Click the odd one out. The only GIA task whose items cannot be generated from a rule.

Read a short business passage and judge whether a statement is True, False or Cannot Say. 24 questions on one 20-minute clock, so slow items eat the time for later ones. Mirrors the Kenexa / IBM Infinity Series verbal reasoning test (VRT).

Four short scenarios, 20 questions, 15 minutes. Not passage comprehension: match people or things to requirements, work out preferences, apply a table of rules with exceptions, and deduce who is where, with "Cannot tell" a live answer. Mirrors the first section of the Defence Aptitude Assessment used by the RAF, Royal Navy and Royal Marines.

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.

Read a fragment of a company annual report and judge each statement Correct, Incorrect or Insufficient information, which is Goed / Onjuist / Niet te beoordelen on the Dutch test. 25 questions on one 17-minute clock, and you can skip a question and come back to it. Mirrors the Bridge Verbaal subtest of The Bridge Ability Suite.

Two words are shown in a square and you pick the TWO words from six that are linked the same way. One mark for the pair, 15 possible answers, 45 seconds. Unlike anything else in the library.

Five passages, four statements each, judged on the five-point Definitely True to Definitely False scale. Three minutes covers reading the passage and all four statements.

Classify each pair of words as synonyms, antonyms or neither, against a short per-item clock. Swipe on a phone or tap on any device.

Judge statements against a short business passage as True, False or Cannot Say. Untimed on screen, timed in the score. Sold by Sova at a foundation and an advanced level.

ACER's off-the-shelf verbal reasoning test, sold to employers rather than run for a police or fire service: 34 questions in 15 minutes mixing analogies, synonyms, antonyms, vocabulary, odd two out and a deductive proof where you pick the two statements that together prove a claim. Two of the six question types need two answers, not one.

Six texts of different kinds, including tables, charts, maps and procedures, with 30 questions in 35 minutes. Most questions are multiple choice and some are answered true or false, or yes or no. One clock for the section, no penalty for a wrong answer, and you can move backwards. Mirrors the literacy component of the Victoria Police, Queensland Police and Fire Rescue Victoria entrance exams.

The verbal part of the Dutch police cognitietest: analogies where you choose one word, or one pair of words, from five to complete the relation. The empty slot can be in any position. English items here; the real part is in Dutch.

GITP’s optional verbal test, taken alongside Connector Ability. See a pair of words and pick the pair related in the same way, in the same direction. Adaptive, four options, 90 seconds an item. The real test is in Dutch; this one practises the relation types in English.

A passage and one statement at a time: True, False or Cannot say, from the passage alone. Adaptive and untimed like the real test, with no going back and two unscored trial items hidden in the sitting.

Three categories, then three words, then count how many words matched the category in their own position, 0 to 3, with everything gone from the screen.

A is to B as C is to which of four words? Name the relation between the first pair, then find the word that stands to C the same way. Adaptive over five levels, with the option that merely goes with C as the usual trap.

The language element of the Police Scotland Entrance Test: two short passages and 13 questions in 16 minutes. Judge statements as true, false or not possible to say, and answer questions in a word or a short phrase taken from the passage. A drill of one element of the real 49-question paper.

The clarity sub-test of California POST's PELLETB: 16 pairs of sentences in 12 minutes, and you pick the one that is more clearly written. The faults are the ones POST names: unclear pronouns, misplaced describing phrases, fragments, run-ons and unfinished comparisons.

The vocabulary sub-test of the PELLETB: 16 sentences in 10 minutes, each with one word underlined, and you choose the closest meaning from four. Common words that come up in police work, with the opposite-meaning and fits-the-sentence traps POST's own examples use.

The spelling sub-test of the PELLETB: 16 sentences in 8 minutes, each with a blank and four spellings of the same report-writing word. American spelling, with no word that is spelt differently in British English, so nothing marks a British spelling wrong.

The reading sub-test of the PELLETB: 22 questions on 10 passages in 55 minutes, from one-paragraph rules to page-long policies and general articles, with the passage beside the question as on the online test. Reading is half the total, so each question here counts more than a writing one.

The whole PELLETB as POST runs it online in 2026: clarity, vocabulary, spelling and reading, 70 questions on one 1 hour 45 minute clock, with the item list, flags, dashboard and section warnings of the real platform. Results split into writing and reading, as POST reports them.

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.

The level for customer service, sales and admin roles, once sold as B2C: business documents such as policies and applications, four statements a page, and 9 minutes, the tightest verbal clock Clevry sets.

The graduate and managerial level, once sold as Utopia: four pages of one article and four True, False or Cannot Say statements, 11 minutes on one clock. Every statement on a page must be answered before Next, and there is no way back.

The level for production, manufacturing and engineering roles, once part of the Criterion Workforce Series: safety notices and staff notices, four statements a page, 10 minutes.

Twenty word analogies in 7 minutes, about 21 seconds each: A is to B as C is to what? TMA keeps the words simple on purpose, so the marks are in seeing the relation, not in knowing rare words.

LTP’s verbal reasoning test, the TVRA: forty double analogies in twenty-six minutes. Each reads "... relates to X as Y relates to ...", and you choose one word from each of two columns of five. Both words must be right for the item to count.

Four words: two of them mean roughly the same, or the opposite, and you are not told which. Tick the pair. 45 items in 9 minutes, twelve seconds each. Mirrors the Woordrelaties subtest of the NOA capaciteitentest.

A - B = C - ?: find the word that relates to C the way B relates to A. Everyday words, so the difficulty is in the relationship. 30 items in 9 minutes. Mirrors the Woordanalogieën subtest of the NOA capaciteitentest, and Harver’s Verbal Reasoning (Word Analogies).

Word analogies shown the way Harver prints them, "A - B // C - ?": find the word that completes the second pair. 30 items in 9 minutes, five options each. Mirrors the Verbal Reasoning subtest of Harver’s NOA Cognitive Ability module.

Twenty passages, each with four statements, and one question every time: which statement is correct on the basis of the passage alone. 35 minutes on one clock with free navigation and bookmarks, at AD or AST level. The pass mark is 10 out of 20, and in the AD5 graduate competition this is the one reasoning score that counts toward the ranking.

Two statements with the same facts: choose the one that says who did what, to whom, where and when without leaving anything open. Two options per item, so 50% is the chance level.

Hear a word, a sentence using it, then the word again, and type it spelled for that meaning: brakes or breaks, patients or patience. Marked in American spelling, as the real test is.

Word analogies first, then short texts with a statement to mark True, False or Cannot be determined on the text alone. 15 questions in 10 minutes, one per screen, with no way back to a question once you press Next.

One workplace passage and one question per screen: what the passage implies, what it refers to, or which statement is true. 12 questions in 13 minutes (TestGorilla does not publish the count, so 12 is ours), the longest clock in its cognitive library.

Workplace policies and procedures to follow to the letter, some with select-all answers marked all or nothing, and drawn workers and shelves to check against rules. 15 questions in 10 minutes. The real test's spoken briefings are not included yet.

Twenty-five questions in 30 minutes on six short documents: memos, notices, safety leaflets, newsletters and manual extracts. Find what the document says, spot the false statement or the one not mentioned, and pick the best summary, using the document alone.