Numerical Reasoning — GraduateCompound or additive? Discount on which base? Numeracy where every distractor is a real mistake.
Twenty-five graduate-level numerical items — percentages, ratios, profit and loss, interest, averages, work rates, speed-distance-time and growth — in 22 minutes without a calculator. Scored on Numerical Reasoning and Cognitive Speed & Agility, with every calculation written out in the report.
Graduate numeracy that separates number sense from shortcuts
The items are the ones graduate rounds are made of: a town growing by a fixed percentage for two years, a train of stated length passing a pole at a stated speed, a percentage of a percentage of a workforce, a discount applied to an already-reduced price. Each has a clean method and at least one seductive shortcut. Add successive percentages and you land on a distractor; compound them and you land on the key. Twenty-two minutes for 25 items rewards a candidate who has the method fluently rather than one who reconstructs it each time.
The bank is original and keyed to graduate numerical-reasoning conventions used by leading international publishers, without reproducing any of their content. Every distractor is anchored to a documented miscalculation — simple-versus-compound growth, percentage-base errors, additive discount errors — so the score reflects whether the candidate holds the right model, not whether they can eliminate silly options. All numbers are chosen to be workable on paper. The bank is not affiliated with or equivalent to any third-party instrument.
The report scores Numerical Reasoning and Cognitive Speed & Agility from their own tagged items and bands each with a coaching interpretation. All 25 items are reviewed with the full working and the slip each distractor represents, so a candidate who keeps adding percentages sees that habit named three times rather than losing three anonymous marks. Strengths and development areas are drawn from that pattern and the growth plan targets the weaker competency, sized for a few evenings before a placement drive.
What you walk away with
An overall 0–100 score with an Emerging, Developing, Strong or Exceptional band, produced by items whose distractors catch the standard shortcuts. A Strong band means the methods are held, not pattern-matched — which is what a hiring team is actually asking.
Numerical Reasoning and Cognitive Speed & Agility appear as separate banded bars with coaching interpretations. Twenty-two minutes is calibrated to be brisk, and the report distinguishes a candidate who was right but slow from one who was quick and wrong.
Each item comes back with your choice, the key, the calculation and the named miscalculation behind each distractor. It doubles as a revision set on compounding, bases, rates and averages that a candidate can study before the next round.
Because misses are reviewed by type, the plan can target the recurring error — additive growth, say — rather than prescribe generic practice. It is generated from your own responses and the lower of the two competencies.
What comes back
Illustrative sample — your report is generated from your own responses.
Band edges at 40, 60 and 80. Each band carries its own coaching interpretation for that competency.
Assembled from your lowest competencies, in order — not a generic checklist.
One number, one band, and a two-sentence summary of what the band means for you — then the breakdown that explains it.
Built for
- Final-year students and recent graduates preparing for numerical reasoning rounds
- Hiring teams screening graduate applicants for analyst, finance, operations and consulting tracks
- Early-career professionals re-benchmarking core numeracy before a job move
- Anyone who wants to know which numerical shortcut keeps costing them marks
Adding two growth rates feels right and is wrong; the test knows the difference.
Twenty-five items in 22 minutes, with the correct working written out for each.
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Frequently asked questions
Percentages, ratios, profit and loss, simple and compound interest, averages, rates of work, speed-distance-time and percentage growth — the standard graduate numerical syllabus — across 25 multiple-choice items in 22 minutes. It scores Numerical Reasoning and Cognitive Speed & Agility, and is aimed at final-year students, recent graduates and early-career professionals, as well as hiring teams screening for analyst, finance, operations and consulting roles.
Each distractor is the answer a candidate reaches by a documented wrong method: adding successive percentages instead of compounding, taking a discount on the wrong base, using simple interest where compound applies. So a half-worked answer lands on a distractor that looks right, and elimination by plausibility fails. Only the correct method reaches the key, which is what makes the score a read of number sense rather than test technique.
Twenty-two minutes for 25 items, no calculator, in one sitting on any device. The report is generated immediately: an overall 0–100 score with a band, banded bars for both competencies with a coaching interpretation each, a personalised narrative, strengths and development areas, a growth plan and a question-by-question review with the working and the named slip behind each distractor. Everything is included; there is nothing further to unlock.
Start with the item review and look for the repeated slip — most candidates have one or two. Work the growth plan, which targets the weaker competency, then retake to confirm the band has moved. Hiring teams use the same review in interview, asking a shortlisted candidate to talk through an item they missed, and set a band threshold across the pool rather than a pass mark.
Yes. The syllabus matches graduate numerical-reasoning rounds run by employers internationally, the items use neutral settings and units, and the report is in plain international English. The test is priced in INR and USD, with the live price for each currency shown on this page, so a graduate applying abroad or an employer recruiting across countries can use one test and one report for the whole pool.
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See the aptitude catalogue →Methodology: Original AssessAll item bank keyed to graduate numerical-reasoning conventions used by leading international assessment publishers. Distractors are anchored to documented miscalculation patterns (simple-vs-compound growth, percentage-base errors, additive discount errors). Not affiliated with or equivalent to any third-party instrument.