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Numerical reasoning tests

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MK Shrimper

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Folks,

Have an interview for a job next Tuesday, but before that I have to do a Verbal Reasoning and Numerical Reasoning tests.

I've done a few online practice papers - the verbal is no bother, finished before time and score 80%+, however the numerical one is doing my head in - I can't finish the paper in time, and last one I did I got just 25% which is not good!

Has anyone had the misfortune to have to do one of these tests before, and if so, any websites that will provide the answers (sorry, help)?
 
MK Shrimper said:
Folks,

Have an interview for a job next Tuesday, but before that I have to do a Verbal Reasoning and Numerical Reasoning tests.

I've done a few online practice papers - the verbal is no bother, finished before time and score 80%+, however the numerical one is doing my head in - I can't finish the paper in time, and last one I did I got just 25% which is not good!

Has anyone had the misfortune to have to do one of these tests before, and if so, any websites that will provide the answers (sorry, help)?
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send us a link, i've never had to do one. I'd guess that you'd need to be comfortable using percentages.
 
One of my students in Year 11 done it and passed both of them. Apparantly you've gotta do this now if you want to get into the Navy.
 
as usual, the trick is to read the question carefully, and make sure you are clear what the data shows.

Numerical test 1.

Q1. 10,000, you're looking for the greatest difference between chairs and stools
Q2. you're given the total expenditure, so you can work out how much is spent on chairs from the given information. that leaves you with the amount spend producing stools. you know how many stools are produced from the graph so just divide this to get the price per stool
Q3. add up the total for chairs and stools. then add together the two totals to give total 6 year production. divide the chair total by the overal total to get the percentage
Q4. this is more involved. you are given percentage information so first you want to convert this into units. so take the total percentage for under a fiver for supermarket A (46%) and times it by the total (0.46x10600). so now you have the number of items under a fiver for SupA. do this for B as well.
now you want to increase it by 10% for three years. take your number of units and times it by 1.1 (110%) three times. for SupB do this for 1.06 (106%) three times. then find the difference between the two final amounts

Q5. Just take the total percentage for under£20 for each supermarket and work out the number (as before). add these together and add the total amounts for both supermarkets together and find the percentage.

Q6. you can't say, because the range is 0-1.99 but you don't know how items are distributed in this range and so you can't say if all prices increased by 50p how many would move up to over £2. (i.e. all the items in the price range 0-1.99 could be priced at £1, so they would all just increase to £1.50). we don't know, therefore we can't answer

As I said, you need to be happy moving numbers into percentage form and vice versa. other than that it's just important to understand the information that is given to you because it's not difficult, the good thing about maths is that there is an answer, you just need to know how to manipulate the information
 
That one wasn't too bad - but when you've got 30 to answer in 45 mins it's a different story.

Either that or I'm not as good at maths as I though....
 
MK Shrimper said:
That one wasn't too bad - but when you've got 30 to answer in 45 mins it's a different story.

Either that or I'm not as good at maths as I though....
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no i feel your pain mate, i'm definitely a lot more comfortable doing maths questions than verbal/english tests.
 
MK Shrimper said:
Folks,

Have an interview for a job next Tuesday, but before that I have to do a Verbal Reasoning and Numerical Reasoning tests.

I've done a few online practice papers - the verbal is no bother, finished before time and score 80%+, however the numerical one is doing my head in - I can't finish the paper in time, and last one I did I got just 25% which is not good!

Has anyone had the misfortune to have to do one of these tests before, and if so, any websites that will provide the answers (sorry, help)?
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MK Shrimper said:
That one wasn't too bad - but when you've got 30 to answer in 45 mins it's a different story.

Either that or I'm not as good at maths as I though....
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Really?

:D
 
MK Shrimper said:
Folks,

Have an interview for a job next Tuesday, but before that I have to do a Verbal Reasoning and Numerical Reasoning tests.

I've done a few online practice papers - the verbal is no bother, finished before time and score 80%+, however the numerical one is doing my head in - I can't finish the paper in time, and last one I did I got just 25% which is not good!

Has anyone had the misfortune to have to do one of these tests before, and if so, any websites that will provide the answers (sorry, help)?
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What position are you interviewing for?
 
Often you don't need a calculator - some of the answers are obviously wrong. This can save time, rather than taking a while working out exact answer look at the question, do a rough back of stamp calculation in your head and then select closest answer. For example in q5 - store A has 68% and store B has 70% - so answer is between 68 and 70 - only 1 answer is.
 
MattE said:
Often you don't need a calculator - some of the answers are obviously wrong. This can save time, rather than taking a while working out exact answer look at the question, do a rough back of stamp calculation in your head and then select closest answer. For example in q5 - store A has 68% and store B has 70% - so answer is between 68 and 70 - only 1 answer is.
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Yes, you've obviously never done one mate. They're a little bit more complicated than that.
 
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