🧠 Cognitive & Aptitude Tests

What is in this catalogue

The twelve JTP modules on this page offer different practice activities. Start by identifying the skill in your actual invitation or a gap you want to address. Four modules use written or numerical material: numerical reasoning works from charts and tables, verbal reasoning works from passages, critical thinking asks you to judge arguments and inferences, and word relations tests how precisely you can name the link between two words.

Four are abstract: inductive reasoning asks you to find a hidden rule in shape grids, deductive reasoning asks you to apply one, spatial intelligence covers cube nets, rotations and projections, and the Switch Challenge asks you to work out which hidden operators rearranged a row of symbols. Two are memory formats — the Grid Challenge, which interrupts you with reasoning questions between memorising and recall, and MindGrid, a shorter pure-recall drill. The last two look at how you work rather than how you reason: the personality assessment and the situational judgment test.

How to choose which test to practise first

If your assessment invitation names a format, read the supplied candidate resources first. The choices below are optional JTP study suggestions, not a prediction of which test an employer uses. Pick a specific skill gap rather than buying or completing every module.

• If you need to interpret tables. Try a numerical example, label its units and explain why its denominator answers the question.
• If you need to read a passage carefully. Try verbal or critical thinking practice. Separate the stated information from an assumption and identify what remains unknown.
• If you need to reason about shapes. Try spatial, inductive or deductive practice. Describe a rule or viewpoint before checking another example.
• If you want to follow unfamiliar rules. Try deductive practice or the Switch Challenge. Work one change at a time and check it against the complete input.
• If you want to reflect on workplace choices. Read a situational judgment example or the personality format. Explain a trade-off honestly; a self-report profile is not a pass mark.
• If you want to rehearse a memory task. Read the Grid Challenge or MindGrid instructions. Their tasks and scoring differ, so compare each result only within its stated format.

How to get the most out of a practice run

1. Learn the instructions before adding time pressure. Work through an untimed example and explain its method. Use timing only when it is relevant to your actual task.
2. Choose a manageable session. Review a small set carefully. Available duration and question-count controls depend on the module; do not assume every format has the same settings.
3. Review the reasoning behind an answer. Read the explanation when one is available. Feedback detail varies. If the method is unclear, return to a worked introduction example rather than treating a score as proof of understanding.
4. Keep a specific error note. Record the mistaken step, a corrected method and a different example that tests whether you can use it again.
5. Revisit a relevant gap. Compare your reasoning on a new example after a delay. Practice scores do not establish an employer pass mark or predict a hiring outcome.

Each test has its own page with the format, worked examples, a practice method and answers to the questions candidates ask most often. If you would rather read before you practise, the guides library covers the same material in article form, including how to prepare for an aptitude test in a week.