{
  "assessmentTests": {
    "psychometric_test": {
      "name": "Psychometric Test",
      "desc": "Practice the ability side of a real psychometric screen: numerical reasoning from small data sets, verbal true/false/cannot-say reasoning, pattern recognition and error-checking, across 30 questions.",
      "recommendation": "Your psychometric ability score",
      "scope": {
        "title": "What this test measures — and what it does not",
        "measures": "The ability side of a typical employer psychometric screen: numerical reasoning read from small data sets, verbal critical reasoning in the classic True / False / Cannot Say format, inductive pattern recognition, and error-checking / data-accuracy — four question formats that commonly appear in employer ability screens.",
        "excludes": "A full psychometric battery in industry also includes a personality or work-style questionnaire. That half has no right or wrong answers and is not included or scored here — try one of the personality tests on this site for that side of the picture.",
        "standing": "This is a practice instrument for familiarisation, not an accredited assessment. It is not equivalent to a proctored, employer-administered psychometric battery, and no employer will accept this score as a substitute for their own testing. Use it to see what these question formats look like and where your instincts are strong or shaky, not to certify anything."
      },
      "questions": [
        {
          "question": "A small retailer recorded units sold by day: Monday 120, Tuesday 95, Wednesday 140, Thursday 110. On which day were the fewest units sold?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Monday"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Tuesday"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Wednesday"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Thursday"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "A café logged cups of coffee sold each hour: 8–9am 42, 9–10am 58, 10–11am 35, 11am–12pm 65. What is the average number of cups sold per hour across these four hours?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "58"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "50"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "45"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "55"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "A warehouse recorded pallet weights in kilograms: Pallet A 220, Pallet B 185, Pallet C 310, Pallet D 265. What is the combined weight of the two heaviest pallets?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "530"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "495"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "575"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "545"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "A survey of 200 employees asked which benefit they valued most: Extra holiday 70, Private healthcare 54, Flexible hours 46, Other 30. What percentage of employees chose flexible hours?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "23%"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "35%"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "27%"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "15%"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "A company's headcount by department is: Sales 45, Engineering 60, Support 30, Marketing 15. If Engineering grows by 20% and no other department changes, what will the new total headcount be?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "150"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "162"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "168"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "174"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "A business recorded quarterly revenue in £000s: Q1 80, Q2 92, Q3 106, Q4 122. If the amount of quarter-on-quarter growth (in £000s) stays the same as the Q3-to-Q4 increase, what will next year's Q1 revenue be?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "128"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "138"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "140"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "146"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Four investment funds reported returns over two years: Fund W +8% then +5%; Fund X +6% then +9%; Fund Y +12% then -1%; Fund Z +4% then +9%. Which fund had the highest combined total when both years' percentages are simply added together?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Fund W"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Fund X"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Fund Y"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Fund Z"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "A courier charges by weight band: up to 5kg £4.00, over 5kg and up to 10kg £6.50, over 10kg and up to 20kg £9.00, over 20kg £14.00. A customer ships four parcels weighing 4kg, 9kg, 12kg and 22kg. What is the total shipping cost for all four parcels?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "£28.50"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "£31.50"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "£33.50"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "£38.00"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "A warehouse switched to a new inventory system in March. Since then, picking errors have fallen by half, though average order processing time has not changed. Based only on this information, how should the following statement be judged? “The new inventory system has made order processing faster.”",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "True"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Cannot say"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "False"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Partly true"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "The finance team reviews expense claims every Thursday. Claims submitted after Wednesday at 5pm are held over to the following week's review. Based only on this information, how should the following statement be judged? “A claim submitted on Wednesday at 4pm will be reviewed the same week.”",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Cannot say"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Partly true"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "True"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "False"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Of the 40 applicants who applied for an analyst role, 25 were invited to a first interview. Of those 25, 9 were invited to a second interview, and 3 of those 9 were made an offer. Based only on this information, how should the following statement be judged? “More than half of the applicants who reached a second interview received an offer.”",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "False"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "True"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Partly true"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Cannot say"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "The Riverside branch has more customer-facing staff than the Docklands branch. Docklands processes a higher volume of transactions per employee than any other branch in the region, including Riverside. Based only on this information, how should the following statement be judged? “Riverside's customer-facing staff earn less than Docklands' customer-facing staff.”",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "True"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "False"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Cannot say"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Partly true"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "All employees who complete the safety certification receive a badge that must be renewed every two years. Priya renewed her badge in January 2024. Based only on this information, how should the following statement be judged? “Priya's badge is due for renewal no later than January 2026.”",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "False"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Cannot say"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "True"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Partly true"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "The customer support team answers phone calls only between 9am and 6pm on weekdays. Email tickets are answered within 24 hours on any day, including weekends. Based only on this information, how should the following statement be judged? “A phone call made at 7pm on a weekday will be answered the same evening.”",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Partly true"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "False"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "True"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Cannot say"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Team A closed 30% more support tickets this month than last month. Team B's ticket volume grew by 18 tickets, a 12% increase over last month. Based only on this information, how should the following statement be judged? “Team A closed more tickets in total this month than Team B.”",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "True"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Cannot say"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Partly true"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "False"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Every employee at the company is based at one of its two offices, London or Manchester. London employees receive 25 days of annual leave plus 8 public holidays each year. Manchester employees receive 28 days of annual leave plus 8 public holidays. Based only on this information, how should the following statement be judged? “Every employee at the company receives at least 33 total days off per year.”",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Cannot say"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "False"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Partly true"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "True"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "What number comes next in this sequence: 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, ?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "18"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "16"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "17"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "20"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "What letter comes next in this sequence: C, D, F, G, I, J, ?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "K"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "M"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "N"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "L"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "What number comes next in this sequence: 4, 7, 13, 25, 49, ?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "91"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "95"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "97"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "98"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Which of these numbers does not belong with the others: 16, 27, 36, 49?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "16"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "36"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "49"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "27"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "If CAT is coded as 3-1-20 (each letter's position in the alphabet), how is DOG coded using the same rule?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "4-14-7"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "5-15-7"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "4-15-6"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "4-15-7"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "What number comes next in this sequence: 5, 6, 9, 14, 21, ?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "30"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "28"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "29"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "32"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "What number comes next in this sequence: 5, 8, 7, 10, 9, 12, 11, ?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "13"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "15"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "16"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "14"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Which of these four codes is an EXACT match to the reference code 4471-XQ-19?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "4471-QX-19"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "4471-XQ-19"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "4417-XQ-19"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "4471-XQ-91"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "How many characters differ between these two strings: 'B4S9-22TR' and 'B4S9-23TR'?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "0"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "2"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "3"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "1"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "A clerk is copying the reference code RQ-7734-KL onto four forms. Which form contains an error?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Form 1 — RQ-7734-K1"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Form 2 — RQ-7734-KL"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Form 3 — RQ-7734-KL"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "Form 4 — RQ-7734-KL"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Compare these two batch reference numbers character by character: JC-2024-0917-QA and JC-2024-0971-QA. How many characters differ between them?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "2"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "1"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "3"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "4"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "A stock clerk is checking four SKUs against the master price list: SKU 1042 is listed at £18.50, SKU 1043 at £22.00, SKU 1044 at £22.00, SKU 1045 at £19.75. The master price list shows SKU 1045 should be priced at £24.00. Which SKU currently has an incorrect listed price?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "SKU 1045"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "SKU 1042"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "SKU 1043"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "SKU 1044"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "An invoice lists four line items: 4 units @ £6.25 = £26.00; 3 units @ £12.00 = £36.00; 5 units @ £8.50 = £42.50; 2 units @ £15.00 = £30.00. One line total does not match its unit price × quantity. Which line contains the error?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "3 units @ £12.00 = £36.00"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "5 units @ £8.50 = £42.50"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "2 units @ £15.00 = £30.00"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "4 units @ £6.25 = £26.00"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "question": "Which of these four IDs is an EXACT match to the reference ID GBX-6903-88Q-TN02?",
          "options": [
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "GBX-6903-88Q-TN02"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "GBX-6903-8BQ-TN02"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "GBX-6930-88Q-TN02"
            },
            {
              "icon": "🧠",
              "label": "GBX-6903-88Q-TN20"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "results": {
        "developing": {
          "name": "Getting Familiar",
          "desc": "The formats did more damage than the difficulty. True / False / Cannot Say punishes anyone who answers from general knowledge instead of strictly from the passage, and error-checking punishes reading at normal speed. Neither is a reasoning problem. They are rules of the game that nobody explains before your first real screen.",
          "recommendation": "Redo the verbal section with one rule: if the passage does not state it, the answer is Cannot Say, however obviously true it seems. That single habit fixes most of the misses in that block, and the same discipline carries into the data questions."
        },
        "average": {
          "name": "Screen-Ready Basics",
          "desc": "You are handling the standard items and losing points on the ones that hide a step: a percentage change of a percentage, a passage where the answer turns on one qualifying word, a table where two rows nearly match. That is the band most first-time takers reach. It is usually enough for an unweighted screen but not a competitive one.",
          "recommendation": "Slow down deliberately on the data questions and write the intermediate number down instead of holding it in your head. Most misses in this band are arithmetic slips under self-imposed speed, not gaps in method."
        },
        "above_average": {
          "name": "Comfortable With the Format",
          "desc": "You read data carefully, resist the tempting but unsupported inference in the verbal items, and catch most transcription errors. That combination is what employer screens are filtering for, and you are on the right side of it. What remains are the deliberately fine distinctions: False versus Cannot Say, and error-checking items where the difference is a single character.",
          "recommendation": "Add a clock. Real screens allow roughly a minute per numerical item and less for error-checking, and accuracy at this level drops noticeably once timed. Practise at pace until that gap closes."
        },
        "superior": {
          "name": "Strong Screen Performance",
          "desc": "You handled the hard end of all four formats, including items built so that the obvious answer is wrong. Scoring here suggests you already separate what a passage states from what it implies, and that you read data rather than skim it. Those are the two failure modes that cost most candidates their score.",
          "recommendation": "The remaining risk is the half of a real battery this test does not cover: the personality or work-style questionnaire. It has no right answers, but it does have consistency checks. Take one of the personality tests here so the format is not new on the day."
        },
        "exceptional": {
          "name": "Top-Band Ability",
          "desc": "You cleared the difficult items across data reasoning, critical verbal reasoning, pattern recognition and error-checking. That spread is unusual, because the four formats reward different habits and most people are strong in two of them. Under time pressure this profile tends to hold up, since your accuracy is not coming from slow deliberation on every item.",
          "recommendation": "Practice is no longer your constraint. Find out which battery your target employer uses and rehearse its timing and section weighting, then put the rest of the effort into the personality half, where an inconsistent answer profile is a real risk and preparation is different in kind."
        }
      },
      "retakePrompt": {
        "lastResult": "Your last result:",
        "evolvedHint": "These formats get easier once they stop being unfamiliar. Try again after some practice.",
        "retakeButton": "Retake this test"
      },
      "optionOrderVersion": "e39dd34921d6a0e8"
    }
  },
  "testNames": {
    "psychometric-test": "Psychometric Test"
  }
}