Clerical Speed & AccuracyThirty-five items in twelve minutes: clerical throughput at sustained accuracy.
The classic clerical speed test, modernised: rapid arithmetic checking, strict alphabetical ordering, largest-number discrimination among visually confusable figures and key-based code transcription. Thirty-five items, twelve minutes; scored on Attention to Detail & Accuracy and Cognitive Speed & Agility.
Throughput measured directly, with machine-verified keys
The items are short and relentless: which of four words comes first in strict dictionary order, where two share a stem and differ in the fourth letter; the code for a five-letter string under a key that maps letters to digits; whether a two-digit sum is what it claims to be; which of several visually similar numbers is largest. None takes more than twenty seconds for a careful person, and there are 35 of them in twelve minutes, which is tight on purpose. The test measures how much correct work you produce per minute when the work itself is simple — the core requirement of high-volume operations, data entry and back-office roles.
The 35 items and their keys are machine-generated and machine-verified, following international clerical speed-accuracy conventions for checking, ordering and transcription, so there is no ambiguity in any key and no item where two answers are defensible. Distractors are the near-misses that a rushed eye produces: the word that comes second, the code with two digits swapped, the sum off by ten, the number that looks larger because of a leading digit. Unanswered items and wrong answers both score nothing, so skipping is neutral and guessing is unrewarded. The bank is not affiliated with any third-party instrument.
The report scores Attention to Detail & Accuracy and Cognitive Speed & Agility from their own tagged items and bands each with a coaching interpretation, so a slow-but-perfect candidate and a fast-but-sloppy one receive different profiles rather than similar totals. All 35 items are reviewed with the key and the rule, including those not reached, which shows where accuracy started to drop as the clock ran. The growth plan is built from the weaker competency.
What you walk away with
Attention to Detail & Accuracy and Cognitive Speed & Agility are banded from their own items with a coaching interpretation each. For clerical work the two trade off, and the report shows which side of the trade a candidate is on.
An overall 0–100 score with an Emerging, Developing, Strong or Exceptional band gives a back-office or data-operations intake a consistent line across hundreds of applicants, without a pass mark the test does not have.
Every item returns with your choice, the key and the rule — the dictionary-order comparison, the code mapping, the checked sum — so a candidate can see whether errors were spread evenly or clustered where fatigue set in.
Strengths and development areas are drawn from your own responses, and the plan targets the weaker competency with short daily practice — the kind that raises throughput without raising the error rate.
Inside your report
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.
One number, one band, and a two-sentence summary of what the band means for you — then the breakdown that explains it.
Built for
- Candidates for data entry, back-office processing, claims, payroll and shared-services roles
- Hiring teams running high-volume operations intakes who need a throughput read, not just a numeracy read
- Graduates preparing for clerical or speed-and-accuracy sections in banking and government recruitment
- Team leads baselining an existing processing team before a productivity programme
Back-office roles are measured in correct items per hour; so is this.
Thirty-five items in twelve minutes — accuracy and speed banded separately, every key explained.
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Frequently asked questions
How much correct work you produce per minute when the work is simple: rapid mental arithmetic verification, strict alphabetical ordering, picking the largest of several visually confusable numbers and transcribing codes from a key. Thirty-five items in twelve minutes score Attention to Detail & Accuracy and Cognitive Speed & Agility. It is built for data entry, processing, claims, payroll and shared-services hiring, and for candidates preparing for clerical sections in banking or government recruitment.
Most candidates do not finish, and the test is designed that way. Unanswered items score nothing and so do wrong answers, so there is no penalty for skipping and no reward for guessing — the distractors are the near-misses a rushed eye produces, such as two digits swapped in a code. Work as fast as you can stay accurate. The report then shows separately how fast you were and how accurate, and where accuracy fell as the clock ran.
A complete competency report, 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 review of all 35 items with the key and rule — including the items you did not reach. Everything is included in the listed price; there is nothing further to unlock.
Hiring teams apply one band threshold across a high-volume intake and use the accuracy band, not just the total, to avoid hiring fast candidates who make errors. Team leads baseline an existing processing team before a productivity programme and retest afterwards. Candidates practise the weaker competency through the growth plan and retake to see the band move. There is no pass mark; the bands do the comparing.
Yes. Checking sums, ordering words and transcribing codes are universal clerical tasks, the items use plain English words and digits, and the format follows international clerical speed-accuracy conventions. The report is written in plain international English. The test is priced in INR and USD, with the live price for each currency shown on this page, so candidates and employers anywhere pay in whichever suits them.
Numerical, verbal, logical, abstract, spatial, data and workplace-judgment banks — each an original item bank with every rule stated in the explanation, scored per competency and reported with a banded profile and a growth plan. Sit one, or build a battery from several.
See the aptitude catalogue →Methodology: Original AssessAll item bank; machine-generated with machine-verified keys, following international clerical speed-accuracy conventions (checking, ordering, transcription). Not affiliated with any third-party instrument.