The Administrative Assistant test evaluates a candidate's aptitude for understanding numerical information, comprehension of written communication, and ability to make logical conclusions about facts and figures.
It's an ideal test for the pre-employment screening of candidates applying for office-based clerical roles, such as administrative assistants or secretaries. A good candidate for an administrative assistant job will be able to display a high level of numerical ability, including an accurate understanding of tables and charts, thorough comprehension of written information presented in emails or reports, and the ability to avoid logical fallacies when making key decisions.
This test requires candidates to demonstrate an understanding of numerical information and competency with solving numerical problems, the ability to identify true/false statements and effective summaries based on written texts, and a selection of valid conclusions when presented with a set of preconditions.
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Album Sales
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Logical Reasoning
Zero-sum thinking
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Logical Reasoning
The majority of todays office-based jobs require thoughtful, logical decisions, as well as the ability to rationalize them.
Zero-sum thinking
A cognitive bias that describes when an individual thinks that a situation is like a zero-sum game, where one person's gain would be another's loss, can lead to less than optimal solutions where both persons lose more than they should.
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Public questions (free account) are common interview questions. They are great for practicing, or if you want to filter candidates using the classic problems.
An eagerly awaited new album has been leaked several hours before its official release. Listeners are now able to download the album for free.
How will this affect album sales?
Age
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Numerical Reasoning
Linear systems
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Numerical Reasoning
The majority of today's office-based jobs require an understanding of numerical information (numbers, tables, charts) and the ability to rationalize them.
Linear systems
The data-analysis process often comes down to solving a simple linear equation to get the desired information.
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Public questions (free account) are common interview questions. They are great for practicing, or if you want to filter candidates using the classic problems.
How old is John if, in 38 years, he will be 3 times as old as he is today?
Brand
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Verbal Reasoning
Newspaper excerpts
True statement
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Verbal Reasoning
Understanding and reasoning based on text from emails, reports, and other written communication is an important task in any job that includes something more than every-day repetition of established procedures.
Newspaper excerpts
Newspaper articles are one of the most common sources of information. Reading and understanding the content is something that everybody needs to be able to do.
True statement
Being able to combine statements logically to prove or disprove a claim is important for making a text useful.
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Public questions (free account) are common interview questions. They are great for practicing, or if you want to filter candidates using the classic problems.
Carefully read the following excerpt from an article on marketing and branding:
Without a robust core idea on which to build, even the most creative and well-targeted advertising won’t boost a brand’s value. Good marketing plays a major role in motivating sales and consumer love by expressing what a brand stands for. But it can have a powerful multiplier effect if the core idea around the brand, i.e. its proposition, is strong, genuine and meaningful to the target audience. Advertising alone struggles to deliver value if the brand proposition is not clear and meaningful. A strong proposition, however, stands pretty well on its own. In a study, the value of the brands that focused on this rose 76% over the 10 years, even where they didn’t have excellent advertising. Good performance no longer helps a brand command a premium or keep customers returning. When people need a clear reason to choose one product or service over the next, being different becomes more important. A point of difference can be found in product functionality, but also in the brand experience and communications. Even the best communication is, by itself, often insufficient.
Which statement is true based on the text above?
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Numerical ReasoningNumerical Reasoning
The majority of today's office-based jobs require an understanding of numerical information (numbers, tables, charts) and the ability to rationalize them.
Linear systems
The data-analysis process often comes down to solving a simple linear equation to get the desired information.
Table lookup
Being able to read tables quickly and accurately is an integral part of most office-based jobs today.
Chart lookup
Being able to read charts quickly and accurately is an integral part of most office-based jobs today.
Percentages
Understanding percentages is one of the most important skills for anyone working with numerical information.
Verbal Reasoning
Understanding and reasoning based on text from emails, reports, and other written communication is an important task in any job that includes something more than every-day repetition of established procedures.
Most effective summary
To summarize an article effectively, one must fully understand it and be able to identify its essence.
Newspaper excerpts
Newspaper articles are one of the most common sources of information. Reading and understanding the content is something that everybody needs to be able to do.
True statement
Being able to combine statements logically to prove or disprove a claim is important for making a text useful.
Logical Reasoning
The majority of todays office-based jobs require thoughtful, logical decisions, as well as the ability to rationalize them.
Argument from fallacy
Automatically accepting that the conclusion is wrong because one of the arguments is wrong means that we can be subject to manipulation.
Fallacy of the undistributed middle
The fallacy of the undistributed middle occurs when the statement that links the two premises is never distributed. This can introduce errors at the early stages of the decision-making process.
Non-independent events
Recognizing when two events are independent is often important when making a decision.
Inductive reasoning
Being able to make a prediction, which is based on statements supplying strong evidence, is important for making almost any decision.
Attribute substitution
When we try to answer a difficult question, we often actually answer a related but different question, without realizing that a substitution has taken place and this can lead to wrong decisions.
Arithmetic
Arithmetic is a fundamental branch of mathematics. An understanding of arithmetic concepts, and their application, is important for every candidate.
Mechanics
The basic principles of mechanics, such as time and speed, are very common in almost any business analysis.
Divide and conquer
To solve a complex problem, one must often break it down into smaller problems.
Double counting
Double counting is a fallacy in which we count events two or more times, resulting in an erroneous number of event, which is higher than the true result. Such mistakes are often very costly.
Gambler's fallacy
Also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy, the gambler's fallacy is the mistaken belief that, if something happens more frequently than normal during a given period, it will happen less frequently in the future, and can lead to wrong decisions.
Correlation and causation
Establishing a cause-and-effect relationship where one doesn't exist is a common cause for making wrong decisions.
Affirming a disjunct
The fallacy lies in concluding that one disjunct must be false because the other disjunct is true. It's important to recognize that both disjuncts might be true when making decisions.
Deductive logic
Also known as deductive reasoning, this is the process of reasoning from one or more statements (premises) to reach a logically certain conclusion. It is a necessary part of any argument.
Fallacy of division
A fallacy of division occurs when one mistakenly concludes that something true for the whole must also be true of all or some of its parts.
Set theory
Reasoning if something is or isn't part of a group, or of an intersection of two groups is a common task on everyday job.
Affirming the consequent
Also known as the fallacy of the converse, this involves taking a true conditional statement and invalidly inferring its converse, even though the converse may not be true. Such errors are very common and can result in a failure to consider other causes.
Circular reasoning
A logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to conclude. Failing to notice such a fallacy can lead to making important decision based on arguments that are not necessarily true.
Critical thinking
Analysis and combining facts into a judgment, and deciding if something is true, false, or inconclusive is inevitable part of every task.
Understanding rules
Understanding company rules and policies is something that all employees need to be able to do.
Fallacy of composition
The error of assuming that what is true of a member of a group is true for the group as a whole.
Conjunction fallacy
Assuming that specific conditions are more probable than a single general one can easily lead to less than optimal decisions.
Illicit major
One should not assume that a converse statement is true, despite a related claim.
Geometry
Geometry is an important branch of mathematics. It deals with points, lines, surfaces, solids, shapes, relative positions, and dimensions. Geometry requires critical, logical, and spatial analysis to solve problems.
Masked-man fallacy
One can't assume that knowing an identity and not knowing another identity means that they cannot both be the same thing.
Existential fallacy
One should not assume that a group has members when it has not been stated.
Modal Fallacy
Inferring that because something is true, it is necessarily true can lead to false assumptions.
Fallacy of exclusive premises
A valid syllogism can't have two negative premises. For exclusive premises, both are negative and the syllogism is invalid. Not noticing this can lead to unwanted results.
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