Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Why do you have to take a test anyway? • Why employers use numerical tests • How numerical tests can be your friend Chapter 2. Practise and pass numerical tests Developing your personal best test score • What is your personal best? • 3-steps for developing your personal best: knowledge, strategies, practise Step one: Knowledge: Know your enemy! • How numerical tests work • Numerical tests and the demands of the job • Different levels of numerical testing • Numerical test materials • Some myths about numerical tests Step two: Strategies: Levelling the playing field • How test strategies can help you • Psyching yourself before the test session • Surviving the test session Step three: Practise: Doesn’t make perfect • What practise helps? • Developing your raw numerical ability Chapter 3. Numerical reasoning practise questions Chapter 4. Numerical reasoning practise questions Chapter 5. Numerical reasoning practise questions Chapter 6. Online numerical testing • How it works • Cheats never prosper Chapter 7. What happens after taking the test? • How results are used • What the results mean • Getting the most from feedback Chapter 8. Your testing rights • How you should be treated • Testing best practise • Test security Chapter 9. Further resources

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About the Author

Alan Redman is a chartered Occupational Psychologist and Director at Criterion Partnership Ltd, who are experts in designing and delivering recruitment selection tests. They regularly work with blue chip companies such as ASDA and British Gas to produce market-leading numeracy and verbal reasoning tests for recruitment assessment.