Practice the SHL reasoning test named in your invitation. Each test has short drills, a full timed test and a worked explanation for every answer.
Free worked examples on every test page · Original questions
| Team | Units | Staff-hours |
|---|---|---|
| North | 240 | 40 |
| South | 270 | 30 |
What percentage higher is South’s output per staff-hour than North’s?
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SHL runs several separate reasoning tests, and your invitation names the ones you’ll take. Match the SHL name below. Each test has its own practice page, drills and full timed test.
You build each answer on screen.
Interactive
SHL name: Verify Interactive G+
Numerical, inductive and deductive reasoning in one sitting.
Interactive
SHL name: Verify Interactive Numerical Reasoning
Read business tables, then enter your answers by setting values on a chart.
Interactive
SHL name: Verify Interactive Inductive Reasoning
Find the rule in shape patterns and letter–number sequences, then build the next step.
Interactive
SHL name: Verify Interactive Deductive Reasoning
Apply a set of rules to group people, rank items and solve calendar and scheduling problems.
Interactive
SHL name: Verify Interactive Numerical Calculation
Mark the incorrect equations in a set and order operations to get from one number to another. Practice also covers the missing-number equations of SHL’s Verify Calculation.
You choose one answer from a list.
Multiple choice
SHL name: Verify Numerical Ability
Tables, charts, percentages, ratios and business calculations. Choose one answer from the list.
Multiple choice
SHL name: Verify Verbal Ability
Read short passages and answer questions about details, main ideas, inferences and the author’s tone.
Multiple choice
SHL name: Verify Inductive Reasoning
Find the rule in a sequence or grid of figures, then choose the missing figure.
Multiple choice
SHL name: Verify Checking
Match a sequence of numbers, letters or both to the one identical option in a list of similar sequences.
Each track’s timed test uses the question maximum and time limit SHL publishes for that test; SHL Calculation also has a speed test at our own 18-second pace, and SHL Checking a pace test at six seconds a question. Every test page has free worked examples.
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Guides to the SHL tests at three employers. Each one explains what is published about the test, who identifies it as SHL, and which practice fits it.
A 24-question, 36-minute adaptive test of numerical, inductive and deductive reasoning. The Commission staff association Generation 2004 identifies it as SHL Interactive G+.
The Commission SHL testAn untimed behavioral profile, then a timed ability test of numerical, inductive and deductive reasoning, both on SHL.
The PwC SHL assessmentSHL runs EY’s early-career online assessments in the UK and US. The US skills assessment has one timed reasoning section.
The EY SHL assessmentSHL delivers its reasoning tests in two formats. The skills overlap, but the way you answer does not, so practice the format your invitation names.
Supplier presentation order
Aster comes immediately after Birch.
Use every rule to complete the arrangement.
Verify Interactive tests ask you to set values on a chart, place people or tasks, select dates, construct the next figure in a pattern, or mark incorrect equations. G+, Numerical Calculation and the interactive numerical, inductive and deductive tests use this format.
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What is supported by the passage?
Verify multiple-choice tests show a question with a list of answers, and you choose one. Numerical Ability, Verbal Ability, the multiple-choice Inductive Reasoning test and the Checking test use this format.
Match the name on your assessment invitation.
Match the name and format on your assessment invitation.
SHL scheduled several older Verify tests for retirement during 2024. It names Verbal Ability as a replacement for the 30-question True/False/Cannot Say verbal test, and Interactive Inductive Reasoning as the replacement for its multiple-choice inductive tests. Choose the multiple-choice inductive track when your invitation names that format.
SHL reasoning tests have right answers and a time limit, so accuracy and pace both count.
Interactive tests ask you to set chart values, place items and build figures. A short untimed drill teaches the controls, so on test day the clock goes to reasoning.
Each track’s timed test uses SHL’s published question maximum and time limit. The table below shows the average time you have for each question.
Every practice question comes with a worked explanation, and your reviews stay saved, so you can find the step that went wrong and drill it again.
| Test | Format | Questions | Time limit | Average per question |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verify Interactive G+ | Interactive | Up to 24 | 36 minutes | 90 seconds |
| Verify Interactive Numerical Reasoning | Interactive | Up to 10 | 18 minutes | 108 seconds |
| Verify Interactive Inductive Reasoning | Interactive | Up to 15 | 18 minutes | 72 seconds |
| Verify Interactive Deductive Reasoning | Interactive | Up to 12 | 18 minutes | 90 seconds |
| Verify Interactive Numerical Calculation | Interactive | Up to 12 | 10 minutes | 50 seconds |
| Verify Numerical Ability | Multiple choice | Up to 16 | 20 minutes | 75 seconds |
| Verify Verbal Ability | Multiple choice | Up to 18 | 15 minutes | 50 seconds |
| Verify Inductive Reasoning | Multiple choice | Up to 18 | 24 minutes | 80 seconds |
| Verify Checking | Multiple choice | Up to 50 | 5 minutes | 6 seconds |
Question maximums and time limits from SHL’s published fact sheets.
SHL publishes online assessments that employers use in hiring. Its reasoning tests cover numerical, verbal, inductive and deductive reasoning, and Verify Interactive G+ combines numerical, inductive and deductive reasoning in one sitting. The employer chooses which tests to send, and your invitation names them.
Check the test name in your invitation and match it to the list on this page. Numerical reasoning has an interactive and a multiple-choice version plus a separate Calculation test, and inductive reasoning has an interactive and a multiple-choice version, so check the format too. Clerical and data-entry roles may also get the short Checking test. If the invitation only says “SHL assessment,” ask the recruiter which tests it includes.
SHL publishes a limit of 36 minutes for up to 24 questions covering numerical, inductive and deductive reasoning. Our full G+ practice test gives you 24 tasks on one 36-minute clock, and 4 short untimed drills let you learn each task type first.
Yes. Each SHL test on this page has its own practice page with free worked examples, short untimed drills that explain every answer, and a full timed test at SHL’s published question maximum and time limit. SHL also offers practice tests on its own site.
Mostly. SHL describes its reasoning tests as adaptive: the questions you get depend on your earlier answers, so two candidates can see different questions. SHL does not describe the Checking test as adaptive. Practice builds the skills and the pace each format needs.
SHL generally permits a calculator for numerical tests unless your invitation says otherwise. The inductive, deductive, verbal and checking tests don’t need one.
No. Game Assessment Prep is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by SHL. All questions and explanations are original, written for the formats and time limits SHL publishes.
Find the SHL name from your invitation, then try that test’s free examples.
Independent practice from Game Assessment Prep. Not affiliated with or endorsed by SHL. All practice questions and explanations are original. For SHL’s own practice tests, see SHL’s official practice information.