Administrative Assistant Test

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About the test

The Administrative Assistant test evaluates critical office support skills, including automatically evaluating Excel files uploaded as answers.

The key areas assessed in the test include everyday tasks, such as:

  • Paying attention to detailed instructions.
  • Managing time effectively to meet deadlines.
  • Logical, verbal, and numerical reasoning to accurately identify and quantify issues and solutions.

Roles such as administrative assistant, receptionist, and secretary all need strong attention to detail, time management, and communication to succeed in support roles.

Sample public questions

Easy
7 min
filev
Public
AI-resistant
MS Excel
Cell References
Formulas and Functions

Your company sells products to customers in two cities, New York and San Francisco. You have been asked to calculate each product’s retail prices inclusive of sales taxes in these cities.

Specifically, you need to:

  • Write formulas to calculate the retail prices, inclusive of sales tax, using the base price of each product.
  • Make sure you reference cells A5 and B5 in your formulas.

Your task is to download the file ‘TaxInclusive-RawData.xlsx’ file and execute the request. When you have completed your work, save it in .xlsx format, then upload that file for evaluation.

Easy
2 min
mca
Public
Interpersonal Skills
Customer Service
Technology Challenged

An elderly customer calls with a problem finding some product information on your company’s website. He is nice enough, just frustrated and hopeless because he can’t find what he needs. The information he’s looking for is too long and complicated to share over the phone. What are the best next steps?

Easy
5 min
num
Public
AI-resistant
Numerical Reasoning
Chart Lookup

The charts below show the number of cars John sold last year and the profit per car he made.

A chart showing the number of cars sold and the profit per car.

How much did John earn last year?

Hard
3 min
num
Public
AI-resistant
Attention to Detail
Visual Attention

The chart below shows how many properties an employee sold last month:

A chart showing how many properties each employee has sold in the last month.

What was the total number of properties sold last month?

Easy
2 min
mcq
Public
AI-resistant
Logical Reasoning
Conjunction Fallacy

In the summer, Agathe wore an ill-fitting sun hat and oversized sunglasses to the beach in Greece. Both slipped off when she fell asleep in her swimsuit on the beach at 2 p.m.

What will most likely happen to Agathe?

Hard
2 min
mca
Public
AI-resistant
Verbal Reasoning
Deductive Reasoning
True Statement

catCats are common pets throughout the world, and their worldwide population exceeds 500 million.

Cats are the second most popular pet in the U.S. by number of pets owned, behind freshwater fish. Although cat ownership has commonly been associated with women, research has shown that men and women in the U.S. are equally likely to own a cat.

They are ranked as the third most popular pet in the U.K. by number of pets owned, after fish and dogs, with 8 million being owned.

What can be concluded from the text above?

Easy
2 min
mca
Public
Time Management
Competing Schedules
Scheduling

You need to schedule a critical meeting. You're available from 9:30am to 2:00pm.

Angela is available from 10:30am to 2:30pm.

Chris is available from 12pm to 4pm.

Everyone hates meeting during lunch but will if it's important.

When are all three of you available to start a one-hour meeting?

Easy
3 min
mca
Public
Time Management
Prioritization
Time Pressure

You have been assigned the following list of tasks, and your boss needs you to complete as many as you can in the next two weeks (10 work days) before you go on vacation.

Task Estimated Time to Complete
Compile Customer List 3 days
Write Newsletter Draft 2 days
Set Up Software 1 day
Develop Image Requirements 2 days
Design Landing Page 5 days
Embed Tracking 1 day
Outline Performance Report 1 day
Analyze Competitors 4 days

Which tasks will you complete before going on vacation?

Easy
3 min
mca
Public
Written Communication
English Language
Grammar and Punctuation

You drafted an email on your phone in poor lighting while in transit. Now back in the office, you need to proofread what you wrote before sending it out. Read the email draft below.

The agenda for next week’s meeting includes presentations from both the marketing and sales teams. Marisol, you will need to has completed the analysis of the most recent campaign by then. You guys need to present slides of those outcomes at the meeting, OK? Meanwhile, Lucas should do something similar for the sales team. Rather than presenting individual case studies, tries to analyze the quarter as a whole this time. Let's nail these presentations and show the executives how much improvement we have made?

Which sentences have errors in grammar or punctuation?

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152 more premium Administrative Assistant questions

Life Expectancy, Product Defect, Angry Jones, Document Organization, Report Distribution, Event Booking, Project B, Workplace, Math Courses, Blue-collar Workers, Candidate Answers, Road Trip, Kindergarten, Penny Flipping, World Championship, All-Stars, Masked Burglar, Free Calls, Broken Clock, Digits to Employees, Pages Turned, Olive Oil Press, Discount, Gear Wheels, Reversed Accounts, Food Additive, Cooking Oil, Project Hours, Work to Finish, Company Rules, Refund Demand, Cancelled Customer, Avoiding Calls, Vacation Days, Conference Instructions, Training Session, Billable Hours, On Time Arrival, Break, Daily Tasks, Thief, Alarm System, Condominium, Working Week, Fossil Dig, Bikers, Elves, Mold, Laptop Setup, Gas Price, Gas Price Change, Busy Intersection, Fruit Juice Processing, Riviera Hotels, Uber, Renewable Energy, Flower Exports, Lucky Roller, Customer Parking, Sales Flights, Email Dictation, Eco Refrigerator, Digital Ads, Holidays, Tax, Money, Seating Plan, Intern Design, Eye Color, Sunscreen Ingredients, Inventory Count, File Encryption, Red Black Chart, License Match, Hair Products, Busy Schedule, Clock Hands, Closed Deals, Currency Exchange, Ears, Marbles, Pages, Profit Margin, Profits, Race Track, Revenue Growth, Revenue No Growth, Spin the Wheel, Traffic Counter, Turtles, Middle Ages Warlords, Football Stadium Renovation, Whitepaper Estimate, Vacation Requests, Service Failure, Critical Client, Too Many Tasks, Brainstorming Session, Constant Change, Annual Report, Meeting Coordination, Text to Code, Region Code, Plans, OCR Fail, Charity Check, Project Notes, Data Dilemma, Q TV, Cat Food CMS, Room Setup, Meal Reimbursement, Hand to Type, Name That Panel, Clock Angles, Outdoor Tub, Employees to Digits, Overdue Invoices, Regional Sales, Large Orders, Currency Conversion, Industry Sectors, Order Display, Elementary School, Game Rules, Drawing the Next Card, Expense Management, Automatic Entries, Holiday Brochures, Award for Ana, Business Reports, Complaining Customers, Highs and Lows, Pink Diamonds, A Bad Good Year, Test Scores, Customer Feedback, Employee Conference, Five Year Sales, Aussie Freight, Hot Beverage Filters, Product Lookup, Employee Lookup, Electronic Products, Office Space, Auto Oversight, Kids on Apps, Coffee and Cake, Snack, Feature Usage, Contractor Fee, Image Toolbar.

Skills and topics tested

  • Verbal Reasoning
  • Inductive Reasoning
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Customer Service
  • Attention to Detail
  • Alphabetical Order
  • Following Instructions
  • Written Communication
  • Email Etiquette
  • Time Management
  • Finding Availability
  • Scheduling
  • Assigning Work
  • Logical Reasoning
  • Deductive Reasoning
  • Fallacy of the Undistributed Middle
  • Fallacy of Exclusive Premises
  • Fallacy of Division
  • Fallacy of Composition
  • Set Theory
  • Gambler's Fallacy
  • Affirming a Disjunct
  • Masked-Man Fallacy
  • Numerical Reasoning
  • Table Lookup
  • Arithmetic
  • Divide and Conquer
  • Linear Equations
  • Mechanics
  • Exact Match
  • Verifying Data
  • Basic Math
  • Identifying Mistakes
  • Angry Customer
  • Call Center
  • Process Improvement
  • Understanding Rules
  • Clear and Concise
  • Giving Instructions
  • English Language
  • Grammar and Punctuation
  • Tone and Voice
  • Optimization
  • Travel Booking
  • Working with Time
  • Argument from Fallacy
  • Affirming the Consequent
  • Double Counting
  • Illicit Major
  • Attribute Substitution
  • Work Rate
  • Percentages
  • Conjunction Fallacy
  • Critical Thinking
  • Most Effective Summary
  • True Statement
  • Existential Fallacy
  • Modal Fallacy
  • Proofreading
  • Customer Complaint
  • Return Request
  • Newspaper Excerpts
  • Visual Attention
  • Correlation and Causation
  • Geometry
  • Arithmetic Mean
  • Chart Lookup
  • Fractions
  • Rotating Elements
  • Project Timeline
  • Prioritization
  • Vacation Policies
  • The 4Ds
  • Competing Schedules
  • Reordering Tasks
  • Multitasking
  • MS Excel
  • Data Filtering
  • Data Management
  • Exclusion Criteria
  • Data Entry
  • Spot the Difference
  • English Language
  • Data Sorting
  • Date Manipulation
  • Formulas and Functions
  • Charting
  • Data Labels
  • Pie Chart
  • Conditional Formulas
  • Cell References
  • Bar Chart
  • Chart Axes
  • Circular Reasoning
  • Dependent Events
  • Probability
  • Advanced Filter Tool
  • Data Lookup
  • Field Groups
  • Pivot Tables
  • INDEX MATCH
  • Two-Dimensional Lookup
  • Match Type
  • VLOOKUP
  • Venn Diagram
  • Working with Time

For job roles

  • Administrative Assistant
  • Executive Assistant
  • Manager
  • Office Coordinator
  • Receptionist
  • Secretary

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