Can You Practice for Arctic Shores? What Our Data Shows

Yes. Arctic Shores tells candidates to be themselves and says no practice is needed, and it offers one short practice task before the real assessment. Practice can't change what the behavioral tasks measure, but it removes the first-attempt penalty. On our Arctic Shores practice tasks, players typically score 14% higher by their fifth attempt and 19% higher by their tenth, and the tasks with a skill component improve most.

What Arctic Shores says

Arctic Shores' candidate help center answers "Do I need to practice?" with no: the assessment captures how you naturally behave, and a practice task is available when you open your assessment link (Arctic Shores help center). That is true of the behavioral read-outs. It says nothing about the unfamiliar controls, rules and timing that cost people points the first time they meet a task.

What our practice data shows

Typical change in score compared with each player's own first attempt at the same task:

About ten minutes on a task, four earlier runs, gets most of the gain. On the stricter comparison, players who practiced five times finished 11% above a typical first attempt, even though they started slightly below it.

Which tasks improve with practice

Fifth attempt compared with a typical first attempt:

Spend your extra attempts on Tickets, Balance and Security. Direction and Expressions need one run to learn the controls.

What practice can't change

Several Arctic Shores tasks have no right answer. Balloon and Team, for example, record how you handle risk and cooperation. Your report compares your behavior with the profile your employer set for the role. Don't try to play a persona: learn each task, then play naturally.

A 20-minute plan before your assessment

1. Check which tasks your employer is reported to use on our Arctic Shores practice hub.
2. Play each of those tasks twice to learn the controls.
3. Give Tickets, Balance and Security three more runs each if they are in your set.
4. Take the real assessment rested, on a laptop, in one sitting.

New to the format? Our Arctic Shores assessment guide explains what each task involves and what it measures. For every assessment we cover, see Does practice help on game-based assessments?

How we measure

We compare every later attempt with the same player's first attempt at the same task and report the median change. Comparisons stay within one scoring version of each task. Details are on our methodology page.