Test Your IQ & Aptitude,
Completely Free
Thirty-two questions, twenty minutes, four kinds of reasoning. You find out where your accuracy holds, where the clock beats you, and which question types are worth your practice — before an employer puts the same kind of test in front of you.
- Free, and you can sit it as often as you like
- A score for each domain, not one blunt number
- Your pacing measured alongside your accuracy
Four kinds of reasoning, marked one at a time
One overall figure hides too much. Each domain is marked on its own, so a strong verbal result cannot quietly cover a weak numerical one — and you can see which of the four is actually worth your practice time.
Verbal Reasoning
How precisely you read. The relationship between two words, the weight a connector like “although” carries, and what a short passage does and does not entitle you to conclude.
ModerateNumerical Reasoning
Working with figures at speed. Percentages run forwards and backwards, ratios scaled from one known quantity, sequences, and reading a total for what it actually says.
ChallengingLogical Reasoning
Rules, and what follows from them. Conditions, certainties, and the gap between an answer that sounds likely and one the facts actually guarantee.
ChallengingAbstract Reasoning
Pattern work with no words or figures to lean on. Rotation, sequence, count, and spotting the second rule running quietly underneath the obvious one.
AdvancedRead the method, then sit it cold
You can skip to the test. Most people do better if they do not: ten minutes in the method section gives you four procedures to reach for, and the difference usually shows in the pacing rather than the reasoning.
Learn the four methods
Each domain gets a worked example, the approach broken into steps you can repeat, and the three errors that cost most people marks.
Sit all 32 questions
One sitting, twenty minutes, eight questions per domain. Both your answer and the time you took on it are recorded for every question.
Read the breakdown
An overall figure, a score for each domain, your average response time, and a short list of what is worth working on before you sit anything that counts.
Aptitude test or IQ test?
In hiring, an aptitude test checks how you perform on specific, job-relevant reasoning under time pressure. A formal IQ test estimates general cognitive ability as a single score standardised against a reference population. This page is one 32-question sitting that you can read either way — as a rehearsal for an employer assessment, or, with the role weighting left off, as a general read of your reasoning. It is not a normed IQ test, and it does not pretend to be one.
This page: rehearse a hiring assessment
- Built to mirror employer-style timed testing — 32 questions against a 20-minute clock
- Pacing scored alongside accuracy, because real assessments are lost to the clock more often than to the questions
- Results can be weighted toward a target role, and read per domain so you know what to practise
- A worked method for every question type, written for the week before a real test
The same sitting, read as a reasoning profile
- Leave the role weighting off and all four domains count equally — a general read of how you reason, with no job framing
- Same 32 questions, same clock: one sitting, two ways of reading the result
- Better fit if you are curious where you stand rather than preparing for one specific process
- What you get back is a percentage across four reasoning domains, not a number on the 100-average IQ scale, and not a clinical assessment
The procedure behind each question type
Nothing here rewards a memorised answer. What it rewards is having a procedure ready before you finish reading the question. Pick a domain and work through the reasoning once, slowly, while there is no clock running.
What it is really testing
Vocabulary size matters less here than most people expect. What is being tested is whether you can name the relationship between two words precisely enough to reuse it — and whether an unfamiliar word stops you dead or merely slows you down.
What you will see
- Analogies in the form "A is to B as C is to ___"
- Words that sit close in meaning but are not interchangeable
- Sentences that turn on a single connector: although, therefore, despite
- Short passages where the answer is what must be true, not what sounds true
The procedure
- Say the link between the first pair as a full sentence, in your own words.
- Turn that sentence into a template — "an X is a severe shortage of Y", "an X is used to Y".
- Drop the third word into the template and see what the fourth is forced to be.
- Read each option into the sentence. The right one sits naturally; the near-misses do not quite fit.
Where marks get lost
- Choosing a word associated with the third term rather than one that mirrors the relationship.
- Talking yourself out of an option that fitted the template cleanly on the first read.
- Stalling on an unfamiliar word instead of reading it for its parts and its context and moving on.
What it is really testing
Recognition speed, far more than arithmetic. Almost every question turns on spotting which relationship is in play — a percentage, a ratio, a sequence rule — and once you have named it the calculation that follows is usually a single line.
What you will see
- Sequences where the rule has to be named before it can be extended
- Percentages run backwards: the figure you are handed is the result, not the start
- Ratios scaled up or down from one known quantity
- Averages and totals that shift when a single value is removed
The procedure
- Write down what you have been given, with its units.
- Write down what is being asked for, in those same units.
- Name the relationship joining the two before you touch a number.
- Estimate the answer to the nearest sensible round figure.
- Calculate, then check the result against the estimate rather than against your confidence.
Where marks get lost
- Dividing the change by the new figure instead of the original one.
- Adding a discount back on to a sale price to recover the original — the base has moved, so the percentage no longer applies.
- Grinding through mental arithmetic when a rough estimate would already have eliminated three of the four options.
What it is really testing
Whether you can keep "must be true" apart from "sounds reasonable". The statements themselves are rarely difficult. The difficulty is noticing which are conditions, which are certainties, and which direction a rule actually runs in.
What you will see
- Chains of statements where one conclusion is guaranteed and three are merely plausible
- If-then rules, and questions that quietly test them in reverse
- Quantifiers that change everything: all, some, none, only
- Ordering problems held together by two or three constraints
The procedure
- Split the passage into single facts, one short line each.
- Label each one: certainty, possibility, or condition.
- Strike out any option that contradicts a fact outright.
- From what is left, keep only what the facts force. If you had to assume anything to get there, it is the wrong answer.
Where marks get lost
- Flipping a conditional: "if X then Y" never licenses "if Y then X".
- Promoting "some" to "all" somewhere in the middle of the chain.
- Holding four facts in your head instead of writing them down, and quietly losing one.
What it is really testing
Pattern work with nothing to read and nothing to calculate. The rule is always simple once you have seen it. The difficulty is that there is frequently more than one rule running at a time, on different clocks.
What you will see
- Sequences that turn, move or mirror by a fixed amount at each step
- Counts that grow by a changing amount rather than a constant one
- Shading that cycles on its own schedule, independently of the shape
- A set of five figures where four share a rule and one does not
The procedure
- Compare step one with step two only, and name every difference you can see.
- Check step two against step three. Keep the differences that repeat; discard the rest.
- Ask whether something else is changing on a slower cycle underneath.
- Apply the rules forward one step at a time rather than jumping to the answer.
Where marks get lost
- Fixing on a rule from the first two figures and never testing it against the third.
- Reading a mirror image as a rotation — a flip and a turn are different operations.
- Finding one rule, feeling relieved, and missing the second one running alongside it.
Pacing is half the score
Knowing a method and using it with four minutes left are different skills. These are the habits that decide whether a good practice result turns into a good result on the day.
Spend 35 seconds, then move
Thirty-two questions in twenty minutes leaves about 37 seconds each. When one runs long, mark the best option still standing and go. Nothing is awarded for the time you spent on it.
Name the type before you solve
Analogy, percentage, conditional, rotation. Naming it in the first two seconds is what hands you a procedure — and stops you inventing one under time pressure.
Read the options first
On most questions two of the four are plainly wrong. Striking them turns a four-way problem into a two-way one, which is both quicker and more accurate than working it cold.
Trust a clean first read
If the relationship or the arithmetic landed immediately, it is usually right. Changed answers go wrong more often than they go right, and the change costs the next question its time.
Let a bad question go
One question is roughly three per cent of the test. Answer it, breathe once, start the next one properly. Carrying it forward is how a single lost mark becomes three.
Practice in real conditions
Phone away, timer running, one attempt in one sitting. Practising relaxed trains a skill you will not have access to on the day — the point is to make the pressure familiar, not to avoid it.
Reset when the domain changes
The four sections ask for different kinds of attention. One slow breath before the first question of a new domain is usually enough to stop the previous method bleeding into it.
Leave nothing blank
A guess after eliminating two options is a one-in-two chance. A blank is a zero. Unless a test explicitly penalises wrong answers, there is no argument for leaving anything unanswered.
Aptitude tests, answered
What an aptitude test is, how employers use them, what they expect — and how to be ready when one lands in your inbox.
A timed assessment that mirrors the format of the cognitive tests employers use in hiring, so you can rehearse the question styles and the time pressure before a real one counts. This one runs 20 minutes, covers verbal, numerical, logical and abstract reasoning, and scores each domain separately alongside your pacing.
An IQ test aims to estimate general cognitive ability as a single standardised score. An aptitude test is narrower and more practical: it checks how you perform on the specific reasoning types employers screen for, under a clock. For a general measure of your reasoning for its own sake, take our free IQ test; to prepare for a hiring process, practise here.
Timed reasoning tests are common in graduate schemes, banking, consulting, engineering, aviation, government roles and much large-company hiring — in the Gulf and internationally. They usually arrive early in the process, after the CV screen and before interviews, which is why practising under time pressure beforehand pays off.
Three things move the needle: learn a procedure for each question type (the method section above walks through all four), practise under a real clock rather than untimed, and review your pacing — most failed attempts run out of time rather than out of ability. In the final week, prioritise your two weakest domains instead of repeating your strongest.
There is no universal pass mark. Most employers score candidates against a benchmark group and take a percentile, and the bar varies by role and company. That is why this practice test reports each reasoning domain separately — knowing where you are weakest tells you more than a single overall number ever will.
Yes. Every candidate sees the same 32 questions with the same 20-minute limit, and results break down accuracy, pacing and the four reasoning domains separately — a consistent benchmark to read alongside interviews, not a replacement for them. Switch to the hiring-teams view at the top of this page to see how results are reported.
Yes — free, with no account, no sign-up and no card. You can sit it as many times as you like, and your full domain-by-domain breakdown appears immediately after you finish.
Both. The test runs in the browser on desktop, tablet and mobile, and the whole page — including all 32 questions — is available in English and Arabic. Use the language toggle in the navigation to switch.