Guidance to help you prepare for the verbal and numerical reasoning tests can be found here.

These psychometric numerical reasoning tests are used to assess an applicants' ability to comprehend and apply numbers.

The verbal reasoning tests were designed to be taken without being seen before, otherwise the results would be skewed.

The reasoning tests are based on discovering relationships between concepts or objects.

Puzzles This is a concrete reasoning test.

Situations' This subtest is a concrete reasoning test.

Large graduate training schemes are increasingly using verbal reasoning tests (verbals) to distinguish between applicants.

Some have criticised verbal reasoning tests due to their lack of precision - many questions arguably having more than one answer.

All students are tested from year two upwards, with maths, English and non-verbal reasoning tests to the fore.

I had flunked both analytical reasoning tests, scoring in the fifth percentile on each.