General Cognitive Aptitude Test
Use this general cognitive test to identify candidates that have useful abilities, such as picking up new information quickly, and being alert to new ideas that might be applied to their jobs.
Pre-Employment Test
Purpose: The General Cognitive Aptitude Test provides a fairly quick, highly-reliable, easy-to-administer test of general mental ability. Like most general mental ability tests, it taps verbal, numerical, and general abstract reasoning. This cognitive test is often used as an additional component to our other tests when an untimed measure of cognitive aptitude is needed. This test can be used with any kind of candidate.
About This Test: This is an untimed General Cognitive Aptitude (includes verbal, numerical, and abstract reasoning) test that takes approximately 20 minutes to complete.
What the Report Gives You: Aptitude scores and interpretation guidance.
Testing Process:
- Immediate score report upon completion.
- Proctoring desirable but not required.
- The use of mobile phones is discouraged.
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View our other online pre-employment aptitude tests and find the right fit for you.Sample Questions for General Cognitive Aptitude Test | |||
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Sample verbal reasoning item: House is to dwelling as car is to ____________. | (A) transportation | ||
Sample numerical reasoning item: Which number comes next in this series? 3 6 9 19 22 25 | (A) 32 | ||
Sample abstract reasoning item: Which figure would come next in the series? |
(Sample questions differ from actual test appearance and do not contain real test content.)
Select Validity Information: In various validation studies, this test is correlated with: overall job performance for engineers (r=.42**); banking professionals (r=.31**); managers (r=.42**); store managers (r=.39**); technical support (r=.32**); customer service (r=.27**); MIS professionals (r=.35**); general professional jobs (r=.28**); and (r=.38**) with sales positions. The test correlates highly (r=.74**) with Wonderlic Personnel Test, and (r=.76**) with MAB-Full Scale; (r=.70**) with the Otis Lennon Intelligence Test and (r=.72**) with the Resource Associates General Reasoning Test.
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