Free verbal reasoning practice test
A verbal reasoning test checks whether you can judge what a short passage actually supports. In the True / False / Cannot Say format, True means the passage states or directly implies it, False means the passage contradicts it, and Cannot Say means the passage alone does not settle it, whatever you know from outside.
8 questions and an advisory 8-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, 8 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 8Stated versus implied
Passage A — a hybrid-work policy
From January, staff in the Pune office may work from home on up to two days a week. Team leads must approve the days in advance, and the arrangement does not apply during the first three months of employment. The policy will be reviewed after six months.
Statement: a new joiner in Pune can work from home in their second month.
- Question 2 of 8Outside knowledge
Passage A — a hybrid-work policy
From January, staff in the Pune office may work from home on up to two days a week. Team leads must approve the days in advance, and the arrangement does not apply during the first three months of employment. The policy will be reviewed after six months.
Statement: the policy was introduced to cut office costs.
- Question 3 of 8Quantifier precision
Passage A — a hybrid-work policy
From January, staff in the Pune office may work from home on up to two days a week. Team leads must approve the days in advance, and the arrangement does not apply during the first three months of employment. The policy will be reviewed after six months.
Statement: eligible Pune staff may work from home on two days a week without asking anyone.
- Question 4 of 8Comparisons the passage does not make
Passage B — a supplier survey
In a survey of 240 suppliers, 62% said late payment was their biggest problem with large customers. Among suppliers with fewer than ten employees, the figure rose to 78%. The survey did not ask about customers with fewer than 250 employees.
Statement: small suppliers are more likely than larger ones to name late payment as their biggest problem with large customers.
- Question 5 of 8Scope of the evidence
Passage B — a supplier survey
In a survey of 240 suppliers, 62% said late payment was their biggest problem with large customers. Among suppliers with fewer than ten employees, the figure rose to 78%. The survey did not ask about customers with fewer than 250 employees.
Statement: most suppliers say small customers also pay late.
- Question 6 of 8Causation from correlation
Passage C — a training pilot
Branches that ran the new customer-service course in March recorded 14% fewer complaints in April than in February. Branches that did not run the course recorded 9% fewer. April is usually a quieter month than February for complaints.
Statement: the course caused a 14% fall in complaints.
- Question 7 of 8Weak inference
Passage C — a training pilot
Branches that ran the new customer-service course in March recorded 14% fewer complaints in April than in February. Branches that did not run the course recorded 9% fewer. April is usually a quieter month than February for complaints.
Statement: complaints fell in April in branches that did not run the course.
- Question 8 of 8Usual versus always
Passage C — a training pilot
Branches that ran the new customer-service course in March recorded 14% fewer complaints in April than in February. Branches that did not run the course recorded 9% fewer. April is usually a quieter month than February for complaints.
Statement: complaints are always lower in April than in February.
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 20-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 0.69.
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.
- 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 verbal reasoning practice test 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.
What is the difference between False and Cannot Say?
False means the passage contradicts the statement: if the passage is true, the statement cannot be. Cannot Say means the passage does not contain enough to decide either way. The most common mistake is answering False to a statement that is merely unsupported; unsupported is Cannot Say.
Should I use my own knowledge to answer?
No. Judge each statement only against the passage, even when you know the statement is true or false in the real world. These tests measure whether you can keep what a text says separate from what you already believe.
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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- Standard error of measurement
Why the band around a short-test score is so wide.
Sources
- 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.
- Brown, W. (1910) / Spearman, C. (1910), British Journal of Psychology 3, 271–295 / 296–322 — The prophecy formula, run backwards to estimate the reliability of a shortened form.