Wonderlic cognitive practice

The cognitive section of Wonderlic Select measures reasoning and problem solving through 50 questions in 12 minutes. Questions generally become more difficult as you progress. Our original practice focuses on numerical, verbal, logical and spatial reasoning.

No. Wonderlic Select also has separate motivation and personality sections. This practice covers cognitive reasoning only. It is not a full Wonderlic Select package or a dedicated Wonderlic student admissions exam simulation. Check the assessment named in your invitation.

The four worked examples on this page are free without an account. When free attempts are included in your account’s access, each short drill has its own first attempt. One Wonderlic pass covers all four drill replays and the full timed test. Saved results and explanations stay free to view.

You have 12 minutes for 50 questions, shown one at a time. Choose an answer and move on, or skip. Our practice does not let you return to earlier questions. The timer continues if you leave the page, and the test ends when time expires. Answers and explanations appear after you finish. Follow your real invitation’s instructions for the actual assessment.

Practice without a calculator. Wonderlic’s candidate guidance says calculators are not permitted for the cognitive assessment. Rehearse mental arithmetic and efficient ways to estimate or simplify a problem; follow any specific arrangements in your assessment invitation.

No. Your score here counts correct answers to our original questions. It is not an official Wonderlic Select score, percentile or employer cutoff. Our demanding practice targets are provisional goals for this question bank; improving consistently can guide further practice, but cannot predict a hiring result.

It is Wonderlic’s short online screening version of its cognitive test: 30 questions in 8 minutes, taken without a proctor. Wonderlic publishes the school edition as the Scholastic Level Exam “Pretest and Distance Learner” (SLE-Q); the hiring equivalent is the Wonderlic Personnel Test Quicktest (WPT-Q), used to pre-qualify candidates before an on-site interview. Wonderlic recommends a proctored full-length test afterward to confirm the result, so prepare for both. The questions are the same kinds as on the 50-question test; practice the full 12-minute test here and the 8-minute version will feel familiar.

Same question types and the same 50-questions-in-12-minutes format. The SLE (Scholastic Level Exam) is Wonderlic’s admissions edition, proctored at the school online or on paper, and scored against a minimum each program sets, for example 17 for Concorde’s Practical Nursing program. Our drills and full timed test practice the same families of questions; they are not an official SLE and do not report an SLE score.

No. The Wonderlic Basic Skills Test (WBST) measures basic math and English skills for program placement, in separate verbal and quantitative tests of 20 minutes each. It is not the 12-minute cognitive test. The WBST has no practice test here; our numerical and verbal drills cover its arithmetic and vocabulary.