Free situational judgement test practice
A situational judgement test presents realistic work dilemmas and asks which response is most effective. It measures practical judgement: dealing with conflicting priorities, colleagues, customers and mistakes. Answers are keyed to what experienced practitioners judge effective, so the best response is usually the one that solves the problem and protects the relationship, not the most cautious one.
8 questions and an advisory 10-minute clock, scored the moment you press the button. There is no account, no email field and no paywall: the questions, the key and the reasoning load with the page, and the scoring happens in your browser, so nothing you do here is sent to AssessAll or stored.
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The practice set: 8 questions, 10 minutes
Answer as many as you like and press Score my answers. Unanswered items count as wrong. You can restart as often as you want.
- Question 1 of 8Conflicting priorities
Two deadlines, one afternoon
Your manager asked for a client report by 5 pm. At 2 pm a senior colleague from another team asks you to drop everything and help fix a pricing error in a proposal due tomorrow morning. You cannot do both well.
What is the most effective response?
- Question 2 of 8Owning a mistake
An error already sent
You notice that a figure in a report you sent to a client yesterday is wrong. Nobody has noticed yet, and the error makes your team look slightly better than it is.
What is the most effective response?
- Question 3 of 8Customer handling
An angry customer on a call
A customer calls, angry that a refund promised a week ago has not arrived. You check and see it was approved but stuck because of a missing bank detail nobody asked them for.
What is the most effective response?
- Question 4 of 8Working with a difficult colleague
A teammate who misses handovers
A teammate on the next shift has twice missed items you put in the handover notes, and a customer was let down as a result. You get on reasonably well otherwise.
What is the most effective first step?
- Question 5 of 8Acting within your authority
A request outside the rules
A long-standing client asks you to extend their payment terms from 30 to 60 days, just this once. Your company's policy says only the finance manager can agree terms over 30 days.
What is the most effective response?
- Question 6 of 8Learning when stuck
A task you do not know how to do
You have been asked to build a pivot-table summary for a meeting in two days. You have never made one, and everyone seems busy.
What is the most effective response?
- Question 7 of 8Confidentiality
Overheard information
In the lift you overhear two managers discussing a planned restructuring that will affect your friend's team. Nothing has been announced.
What is the most effective response?
- Question 8 of 8Speaking up about safety or risk
A shortcut in a process
A senior colleague regularly skips a two-person check on outgoing bank payments because 'it slows everything down'. Nothing has gone wrong so far.
What is the most effective response?
How much is an 8-question score worth?
Less than it looks. On 8 items, 6 correct carries a 95% confidence interval from 40.9% to 92.9% — a band 52 percentage points wide, computed with the Wilson interval. And if a full 16-item form had a reliability of 0.85 (a typical published figure, used here as an illustration, not an AssessAll measurement), the Spearman–Brown formula puts a 8-item version at about 0.74.
That is why the result above is printed with its interval, why there is no percentile or pass mark, and why the value of a short practice set is the reasoning behind each answer rather than the score.
What this page is not
- This is not a selection test and no result from it is used, stored or seen by anyone. The scoring runs entirely in your browser.
- Eight items cannot produce a reliable individual score. The result is printed with its 95% confidence interval, which on eight items is very wide.
- No percentile and no pass mark are offered, because both need a comparison group and there is none here.
- These items were written for this page. They are not taken from any AssessAll form, and a score here predicts nothing about a score on one.
- The keyed answers reflect common practice in office and service workplaces. Real SJTs are keyed to a specific organisation and role, and a different employer may value a different response.
- AssessAll publishes no reliability coefficient, norm or benchmark for its own instruments yet, because none has passed its internal research-readiness gate. The 0.85 used in the shortened-form arithmetic is a typical published figure, quoted as an illustration.
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Is this situational judgement test practice really free, with no signup?
Yes. There is no account, no email field and no paywall. The items, the key, the working and the score all load with the page and are scored in your browser. Nothing you do here is sent to AssessAll or stored, which is also why the result disappears when you close the tab.
Is there one right answer in a situational judgement test?
Each test has a key, usually set by experienced practitioners or by how high performers answered. Several options can be reasonable; the key marks the most effective. That is why the reasoning for every option matters more than the score on a practice set.
Can you practise for a situational judgement test?
You can learn the format and the patterns many keys share — surface trade-offs to whoever owns them, fix errors early, act within your authority, speak up about risk. What practice cannot do is change your judgement overnight, and employers key their tests to their own culture.
Are these the same questions AssessAll uses in its real assessments?
No. Every item here was written for this page. Publishing live items would weaken the real assessment for every organisation that uses it. The trade-off is that these items show the format rather than being calibrated against it.
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- What is a situational judgement test?
How SJTs are built, keyed and scored.
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Eight first-time-manager scenarios in the same format.
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Sources
- McDaniel, M. A., Hartman, N. S., Whetzel, D. L. & Grubb, W. L. (2007), Personnel Psychology 60(1), 63–91 — Meta-analysis of SJT validity and how response instructions change what the test measures.
- Wilson, E. B. (1927), Journal of the American Statistical Association 22(158), 209–212 — The score interval used for the confidence band on the result.
- Agresti, A. & Coull, B. (1998), The American Statistician 52(2), 119–126 — Why the textbook Wald interval is the wrong tool at n = 8.