SHL Assessment Tests: Take Free Practice Tests with Explanations (2021)

Identify a quality that the two shapes have in common. Select which of the four suggested answers also possesses the quality.

The two figures share a common feature. Which of the figures below the two figures does NOT share this feature?

The two figures share a common feature. One of the answer figures does NOT share the same feature. Which figure does NOT share the common feature?

The two unlabelled figures share a common feature. One of the figures below them does NOT share this same feature. Which figure does NOT share the common feature?

Identify a quality that the two shapes have in common. Select which of the four suggested answers also possesses the quality.

Identify a quality that the two images have in common. Select which of the four suggested answers also possesses the quality.

Identify a quality that the two shapes have in common. Select which of the three suggested answers also possesses the quality.

Identify a quality that the two images have in common. Select which of the four suggested answers also possesses the quality.

Identify a quality that the two shapes have in common. Select which of the four suggested answers also possesses the quality.

Identify a quality that the two shapes have in common. Select which of the four suggested answers also possesses the quality.

Based on the three examples, what is the next figure in the fourth row?

What is the next object to follow this pattern?

Which figure comes next in the following series?

Which figure comes next in the following series?

Which figure must be placed instead of question mark (?) in the matrices below?

Which figure must be placed instead of question mark (?) in the matrices below?

Which figure replaces the question mark in the following matrices?

Which figure replaces the question mark in the following matrices?

Which figure replaces the question mark in the following matrices?

Which figure replaces the question mark in the following matrices?

Which figure replaces the question mark in the following matrices?

Which figure replaces the question mark in the following matrices?

Which figure replaces the question mark in the following matrices?

Which figure replaces the question mark in the following matrices?

Which figure comes next in the following series?

Which figure comes next in the following series?

You work as a technician for a communications/information and technology company. After being called to a client’s office with a colleague to do maintenance work on their servers, you get to work with your tools. A few hours later, your coworker comes up to you and asks if he could borrow one of your tools as he had seemed to have forgotten his own.

You have been hired as a clerk for an accounting firm and this is your first full-time job. Although you are eager to learn the ropes, your supervisor is standoffish most of the time and you can’t seem to approach him with how he has a perpetual scowl or frown. Furthermore, he is not afraid to tell you that you are doing something wrong, sometimes in front of other employees, but doesn’t go into detail on what you should do. Although you want to know how to do your tasks properly, you are afraid that he will think that you are not a good worker if you ask him questions.

You work in an office that only has one copy machine. You notice that every time you try to use it, the machine barely has enough paper in it or is completely empty as if no one bothers to refill it. What should you do in this situation?

While working as a clerk for an accounting firm, you noticed that one of your coworkers glances too much on your computer screen, especially when you are tending to your emails, work-related or not. How should you deal with this?

As you’re about to enjoy your lunch so that you can meet up with an important client of yours, a coworker comes up to you and asks you if you could help them as they couldn’t get their computer unit to work for some reason.

A coworker, who is a close friend of yours, recently had a baby and keeps on sending you unsolicited emails containing images and videos of their newborn. Although you don’t mind this as you are happy for them getting a child, you are somewhat getting annoyed with how frequent you’re getting these emails and it sometimes clog up your work-related emails.

You work in an advertisement agency, and each week, you need to discuss new ideas and pitches with the sales team. During one of your meetings, you hear two coworkers in the hallway talking and laughing loudly, distracting many of your coworkers every now and then. What action should you take?

You work in a famous boutique that sells incredibly sought out for makeup with how many celebrities promote and endorse them. While working on your shift, a customer asks you for one of your bestsellers. After checking the catalogue, you see that it is no longer in stock. This causes the customer to get angry, saying that you never have the item in question whenever they visit.

While enjoying a company party, your boss tells a joke that you take some offense to or deems as offensive to you. What should you do?

After experiencing a good year, your company got enough money to relocate to a new building that’s more accessible to all employees when commuting. However, after a few days, you noticed that the cubicle walls are thinner than the one you previously had and thus you can hear everything around you. To make things worse, the office that’s closest your workspace has a manager that keeps his door open and talks loudly when taking or making calls, making it incredibly distracting for you.

A blind patient walks through the hallway of a hospital. He finds his way counting the tiles. What direction has he displaced the path followed by the result of vector sum A + B/2 + 2C =?

A bar magnet is broken into three parts X, Y and Z. Which diagram shows the poles in X, Y and Z?

Which statement below is CORRECT?

What additional mass (in kg) is to be put on the wooden block of 0.3 m³ volume, if it is to be completely immersed in the alcohol as in figure? (ρwood = 600 kg/m³, ρ_alcohol = 900 kg/m³)

If we pull the rope vertically up by 2 m using the force F (on the right), how far will the load be raised up?

What is the mechanical advantage of the wheel and axle system shown in the figure? (Diameter of the axle is 10cm).

A spring has a constant of 1200 N/m. What is the mass of the object hung on the spring if it extends by 10 cm? Take g = 9.81 m/s2. Write the answer at 3 s.f.

 What is the minimum speed needed to keep a small sphere rotating in the inner part of a glass by diameter of 8 cm? Take g = 9.81 m/s². Ignore the friction.

A 1200 kg car is moving on a curved horizontal road having a radius of curvature of 60 m. The friction coefficient between the road and the car tires is 0.4. What is the maximum speed of the car to avoid sliding away? Write the answer at 3 s.f. (g = 9.81 m/s²).

Three objects with different weights, 4F, F and 2F respectively, are placed on the ground as shown in the figure. In which case the pressure on the ground is the greatest?

A force has…………

An object at point A moved to point B after that moved point C. What will be the displacement of the object in meters?

Which of the following values represent only scalars?

All people in the figure below have the same weight.

What is the area of the larger piston if the area of the smaller piston is 0.4 m²?

Which of the following is NOT a fundamental SI unit?

What is the force needed to lift a 200 N load L as shown in the figure, if the axle diameter d is 8cm and the wheel radius R is 40cm?

A system of 2 meshed gears is shown in the figure. How many times does the driving gear turn if the driven gear turns 24 times?

Two vectors u and v are shown below.

Which statement is true?

The driven gear turns 6 times during a certain period of time. How many times does the driving gear turn during this process?

Assumptions:

Carl’s Ice Cream Store always gives three scoops of ice cream for their customers per cone.

Every fourth purchase, the store gives the customer a fourth scoop.

Nina buys ice cream for herself and her brother from Carl’s starting every Monday, then continues to buy it on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

Conclusion:

Nina gets a four-scoop ice cream from Carl’s every Wednesday.

If the assumptions are true, then the conclusion is:

Which sentence is not punctuated correctly?

Assumptions:

Chris loves to go to the beach

Chris stays at home whenever it rains

Lila usually goes with Chris to the beach.

Conclusion:

Lila stays at home with Chris whenever it rains.

If the assumptions are true, then the conclusion is:

Assumptions:

Jacob frequently goes to a bookstore.

He only buys diaries whenever there’s a sale.

The store has a sale every two months.

Conclusion:

Jacob only buys diaries every two months. 

If the assumptions are true, then the conclusion is:

Assumptions:

Pete always has coffee with his breakfast

The local cafe serves coffee with every meal but not for takeout

Pete eats breakfast in his office

Conclusion:

Pete does not go to the local cafe for his breakfast.

If the assumptions are true, then the conclusion is:

Assumptions:

Richard wakes up late during the weekends.

His job requires him to go to the office early in the morning before his coworkers arrive and they greet each other.

Richard only works on weekdays.

Conclusion:

Richard’s coworkers greet him during the weekdays.

If the assumptions are true, then the conclusion is:

Assumptions:

Theodore goes out for a run in the forest every other day

He chooses to run around town other times

He stays at home however whenever it gets too cold.

Conclusion:

Theodore only runs in the morning.

If the assumptions are true, then the conclusion is:

Assumptions:

Joy is aiming to be the new manager of the store.

Dan is qualified to be the new manager of the company but doesn’t want to be promoted.

The company only considers promoting those who are qualified to become managers.

Conclusion:

Joy will not be promoted as the new manager.

If the assumptions are true, then the conclusion is:

Blackberries are more expensive than strawberries.

Blackberries are less expensive than raspberries.

Raspberries are more expensive than both blackberries and strawberries.

If the first two statements are right, the third statement is?

Mary has six children.

Three children have blue eyes and three of the children have brown eyes.

Half of the children are girls.

If the three statements are true, which of the following statements must also be true?

Which of the following terms best define “Assumption”?

In this sentence, there may be a grammatical error.

If a problem does exist, select the letter that indicates the most effective change. If no problem exists, select choice D.

“I believe that I received a gooder workout from walking than from biking.”

Which of the following is a synonym of “Repercussion”?

Select the sentence that represents the best example of English grammar.

Assumptions:

Rulers are always sold with a free pouch.

Pencils can be sold with rulers.
Crayons cannot be sold with pencils but are allowed to be bought with rulers.

Conclusion

You get a free pouch when you buy crayons with pencils and rulers.

If the assumptions are true, then the conclusion is:

You are in a dark room and you only have one match left. There is also a lamp, a candle, and a paper.

What do you light first?

Assumptions

Whenever Diego goes out to town, his dog follows him into his car.

Annie sometimes goes with Diego.

Diego has a car that takes three passengers

Conclusion:

Diego’s dog also likes to follow Annie.

If the assumptions are true, then the conclusion is:

Which of the following terms is spelled incorrectly?

Assumptions:

Every bus goes through the freeway to get to the city everyday except Monday, where they take a different route.

Jane works in the city and always takes the bus to work.

Taxis are available 24/7 and can take you anywhere you want to go.

Conclusion

Jane takes a taxi to work every Monday.

If the assumptions are true, then the conclusion is:

You are running in a marathon. You ran by the person who is in second place. 

What place are you now in after running by the person in second place?

Modern brass is produced by mixing copper and zinc. In such an alloy, for every 2 mass units of copper there is 1 mass unit of zinc. How many kg of copper are needed to produce 144 kg of brass?

The exchange rates of top 10 currencies on 21th of June are shown below.

The first column shows the exchange rates of USD to top 10 currencies and the second column shows the inverse exchange rate of these currencies except for British Pound (GBP) whose information is hidden. 

From the data above, calculate the inverse exchange rate of GBP to USD.

If 24 workers can produce 20 T-shirts in a certain time, how many T-shirts can 6 workers produce at the same time?

What currency from the ones shown in the table below is stronger than USD?

If 20 tractors working 8 hours a day can plow 120 hectares of land then how much land can 40 tractors working 2 hours a day plow?

100 USD are worth 132 Canadian Dollars CAD at a given date. How many CAD can one purchase with 680 USD?

In a lab group, the number of girls and boys are directly proportional to 0.4 and 0.3. What is the minimum number of students in a group?

Which currency is the strongest based on the cross rates table shown below?

A mixture of 36kg  is obtained by mixing three substances: x, y and z proportional to 2, 3 and 4. If 12 kg of the substance y is added to the mixture, what will become the new ratio of x, y and z?

The table below shows the exchange rates of some currencies in a given day.

Based on the above table, calculate which person owns LESS money than the others.

320 people are travelling in an airplane. 150 of them understand English and 122 others understand French. The rest cannot understand either of these languages. What is the percentage of passengers who can neither understand English nor French?

A goalkeeper plays 95% of a 90-minute football match and then is injured. How many minutes will the substitute goalkeeper play? Extra time is neglected in this question.

34% of people working in a factory with 600 employees are immigrants. Also, 75% of these people (immigrants) are females. What is the number of female immigrants working in the factory?

The price of a new mobile phone was initially $500. The seller increased its price by 10% but since the mobile was not being sold, he decreased the price by 10%. What is the final price of the mobile phone?

Three shopkeepers, A B and C, have purchased the same commodity at the same initial price. Initially they try to sell it at the same price P. Since the commodity is not being sold, the first shopkeeper (A) lowers the price by 20% and then increases it again by 20%. The other shopkeeper (B) does the opposite, i.e. he first increases the price by 20% and then lowers it by 20%. The shopkeeper C doesn’t change the price. At which shop would you buy the commodity after the final price?

The following table shows the calories contained in some fruits

Given that an adult male needs 2500 calories per day to maintain his actual weight, calculate how many kilograms of avocados must he eat in order to keep his weight if no other foods are available?

Which of the fruits shown in the table is the least calorific one?

The following table shows some information regarding the familiar status of children in a private school. Answer the questions 15 – 17 based on the data provided by this table.

What is the ratio of students living with only one parent to the total number of school’s students?

The following table shows some information regarding the familiar status of children in a private school. Answer the questions 15 – 17 based on the data provided by this table.

What percentage of students (out of total) have their parents divorced?

The following table shows the National League South travel distances for every team during the next season away matches.

The regulation provides that all teams which travel distances longer than 100 km must be accommodated in local hotels of the hosting city when they have to play away matches. How many teams participating in National League South have to stay in hotels before the greatest part of away matches? Remember that 1 mile = 1.609 km.