Pass ACT Workkeys Test: Updated Guide and Free Practice Tests (2021)
Last updated 12/2020
ACT WorkKeys tests measure skills that employers consider necessary for success in the workplace. The ACT WorkKeys assessment system is used by people looking to enter the next phase of their education, embark on a new career, or advance in their current job role.
We, at Prepterminal, have created a series of free Workkeys practice tests. Discover your benchmark testing score. Start preparing for your Workkeys test with our Workkeys practice tests free today.
WorkKeys Applied Math Practice Test
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Level 3 A company bought some printers. The printers cost $547. 89, $1172.36 and $1359.08. What was the total amount that the company paid for the printers?
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You work at a counter and a customer hands you a $50 bill for something that costs $23.78. How much change should you give?
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Level 4 A supermarket charges $12.60, including tax, for a pound of nuts. Someone buys 1 1/4 pounds of these nuts. How much do they spend on this purchase?
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4. Question
Last week, in your job as a sales representative, you dealt with the following numbers of customers.
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15
Tuesday
25
Wednesday
19
Thursday
26
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14
On average, how many customers do you deal with daily?
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Level 5 From a large cable measuring 10 yards, two smaller cables of lengths 3 3/8 yards and 2 1/4 yards were removed. How much of this cable remained?
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A writer was paid by the hour, at the rate of $20 an hour. After performing some tasks and finishing a job, he presented his invoice with the times that he had worked, which were 5 hours 52 minutes, 3 hours 23 minutes and 4 hours 19 minutes. What was the correct amount of time that he spent writing?
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Level 6 Joseph had a rectangle of wood, which she knew was 10 ft.² in area. The base of this rectangle was 5 feet long. He needed two rectangles of wood like this to be the ends of the box that he was making, whose length was 20% longer than the height of the rectangle. What was the volume of the box in cubic feet?
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The length of paper needed to cover a table is 4 1/8 feet. Also, there have to be an extra 3 inches of paper at each end to cover folds at the ends of the table. A roll of this paper is 100 feet long. What is the maximum number of tables that could be covered, using this roll?
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Level 7
The cost per hour of a machine was $25. It worked for 30 hours each week. Due to power charges, the costs increased by 5%. The company finance officer was very concerned and reported that the annual cost was now $46800. What was his mistake?
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While preparing a calculation, Julianne found that a sample of 60 prices, none of which exceeded $6000, had a standard deviation of $3400. What would be her conclusion?
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WorkKeys Graphic Literacy Practice Test
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Level 3 A company advertised for some positions requiring very able employees four times during one particular year. The numbers of applicants they received are shown in the diagram below. The candidates were placed into two categories, A and B. Category A candidates were invited to attend a test. Category B candidates were not considered.
How many Category B candidates were there in Intake 2?
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An order was made from Gmanzt, as shown in the form above.
What was the order number?
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Level 4
There were four sales representatives in the team supervised by Miriam Quartz. At the end of the year, she analyzed the performance of her four salespeople, who were Alice, Bob, Dave, and Liz. The results are shown in the chart above. She was instructed to arrange further training for anyone, whose sales had improved in each quarter. Did any of the four sales representatives manage to do this?
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A company advertised for some positions requiring very able employees four times one year. The numbers of applicants they received are shown in the diagram below. The candidates were placed into two categories, A and B. Category A candidates were invited to attend a test. Category B candidates were not considered.
In which intakes, was the number of Category B candidates twice as much, or more as the numbers of Category A candidates?
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Level 5
Sheila is a zoologist who was doing some research. Some animals of a certain species were weighed. The median weight was 21 kg, the lower quartile of the weights was 14 kg and the upper quartile was 25 kg. The lightest animal was 2 kg, the heaviest 38 kg. Although there were several different breeds of this animal, all breeds had the same statistics. This information was shown in the box and whisker plot below.
Sheila’s manager asked her what percentage of animals would weigh no more than 14kg. What answer should she give?
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The sunburst chart below shows information about the staffing for a computer company.
How many categories are the workers in Artificial Intelligence divided into in this chart?
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Level 6
Three employees of ABC Enterprises were assessed on some characteristics that the company valued. The results of the assessment are shown in the radar chart below
What was the lowest score?
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A field was fertilized with a new chemical that had been discovered by scientists in Bolivia. The bubble diagram shows the effect.
The fertiliser was added at the rate of 1 kg per 1000 m2 in the first month, leading to some production, as shown by the small ‘bubble’ at the point (1,1). In the second month, 3 kg per 1000 m2 was added leading to a much larger bubble indicating far greater production and so on.
During this period, what month saw the greatest productivity?
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9. Question
Ms. Brooklyn Johnson was booking her daughter Chelsea for a movie. Brooklyn was booking online and wanted a seat at the end of an aisle or row, which was more than 4 rows in front of the screen. The movie software automatically places you in a seat but this can be changed.
How many seats of the right type were available for Chelsea?
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Question 10 of 10
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The graph above compares the take-up of a new app with the growth of the Internet in its first few years from 1991. The app was released at about the beginning of 2016. Since then the number of users has grown enormously.
Which year saw the number of users of the app, first exceed the users of the Internet during its early years?
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WorkKeys Workplace Documents Practice Test
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The driver is responsible for the scheduling and the maintenance of the Company’s motor vehicles and its conditions. All vehicle maintenance work must first be approved by the manager in charge before taking place.
The manager in charge is also responsible for checking and overseeing all aspects of the motor vehicle maintenance and management on a weekly basis and will manage issues and detect tasks to relevant parties as necessary. This includes but is not limited to log books, problems, fuel requirements and cleaning.
The driver is responsible for routine services and repairs including refueling and routine motor vehicle checks, e.g. tire pressure checks and car battery checks. Routine scheduling includes organizing renewal registrations, pink slips, green slips and insurances for all of the Company’s motor vehicles.
Question What must the driver do with the Company’s cars based on the above mentioned policy?
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The material below is an excerpt of Data Quality Officers Policy Staff members who have designated data quality functions as part of their role will be considered to be Data Quality Officers and will:
assess and provide reports on compliance with the data quality framework;
assist in data quality studies or ad hoc data quality reporting or initiatives;
assist in the development of data quality infrastructure, strategy, and policy;
provide feedback to System Trainers to help develop best practice; and
assist in root cause analysis of data issues.
Question What is NOT supposed to do a Data Quality Officer based on the policy excerpt above?
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Level 4
Look carefully at the letter below:
Dear Mr. Stevenson: Your company recently installed rain gutters on my house in Country Meadows. We paid $4545 for new gutters on every face of our two-story home. The work took place on 10/2/2019. Attached is a copy of the invoice showing the work was completed and paid in full. We were very happy with the service we received and your crew was very kind and professional. Unfortunately, during the heavy snow storm we had last week, our new rain gutters on the north side of our house fell off. While I am not an expert, it appears that several of the fasteners where inadvertently left out during installation. We ask that you send your crews back out to complete the job that was paid for, replacing the gutters that have detached and inspecting the remainder of the gutters for similar issues. We look forward to hearing back from you in the next several days to confirm when you will be returning. We expect to see your crew within the next three weeks and will wait until then before contacting the state contractor’s license board. Feel free to contact me at (123) 456-7890 to schedule or visit or with any questions or concerns. Sincerely,
David Jones Question The above text is an example of a ……………
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Arrange the following sentences to form a sensible paragraph. (1) In another container, B floats above C, and in a third container, A above C. (2) Our experiment shows that liquid A floats above liquid B when combined in a container. (3) Therefore, it is safe to say that C is the most dense, or heaviest, substance of the three. (4) The book suggests that the further a material sinks down in a container, the denser it actually is than the other material within the same container
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Select the sentence that best describes the ideas of the given paragraph.
“In 1974, there was a loud sound and a bright light that woke the whole neighborhood up. Too afraid to figure out what it was, the people decided to lock themselves in their rooms and waited for it to pass. When morning came, they found that the streets are wet and the winds felt very cold. Up to this day the people claim they do not know what the light and sound was.”
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The text below is extracted from a maintenance system program. The maintenance program is designed around the principles of a reliability centered maintenance strategy. This incorporates different types of strategies in different conditions. Reactive maintenance can be used for items that have a low impact on operations, low cost of repair, and that are affected minimally by maintenance intervention. A majority of the maintenance being done in the facility will be completed using a preventative maintenance strategy, resulting in a regular upkeep of the equipment. This can be used for equipment that can have an expanded lifespan when regularly maintained, for pieces of equipment where additional funds can be utilized to avoid failure, and may be hard to regularly inspect due to access or availability. The final group of equipment will undergo a predictive maintenance strategy. These are pieces of equipment with a lifespan that can be significantly increased by regular monitoring and repair with parts that are nearing the end of their functional life, and/or are mission critical pieces of equipment. By taking regular measurements, failure can be predicted and prevented while still allowing for the maximum use of the parts in question.
Question Which of the following statements is true based on the above text?
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Level 6
This document is a General Security Policy This security policy addresses the following areas of concern:
General security policy and standards
Security organisation
Personnel security and training
Physical security
Computer systems access control
State Health Network
Security in system life cycle management
Computer integrity and incident reporting
Malicious software
Business continuity management
Compliance
Question Based on the abovementioned Security Policy, which of the following statements is NOT true?
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Question 8 of 10
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This part consists of several sentences, each followed by four possible ways of restating the main idea of that sentence written in italics in different words. For each question, choose the one restatement which best expresses the meaning of the original sentence in italics.
Bears are big omnivores that hunt fish in streams and forage plants, using their keen sense of smell and surprising agility to support their vast appetites. In winter they take a long sleep known as “lethargic sleep’ that lasts during the entire season. So, they must consume a large amount of food before sleeping for such a long period of time.
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Question 9 of 10
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Level 7
The text below is an excerpt of a business plan
The Sorcerer’s Accountant is a small, successful, one-person accounting and tax preparation service owned and run by Max Greenwood, CPA in Chicago, Illinois. The firm offers tax accounting, management accounting, and QuickBooks set-up and training for small business clients. To move beyond a one person model, the business will expand its services to include bookkeeping services for small businesses. This will require an investment in marketing and staff to grow the business to include this complementary line of business. This business plan organizes the strategy and tactics for the business expansion and set objectives for growth over the next three years.
The business will offer clients bookkeeping services with the oversight of a CPA at a price they can afford. To do this involves hiring undergraduate student bookkeepers and a graduate student manager, keeping fixed costs as low as possible, and continuing to define the expertise of Sorcerer’s Accountant through its website resources. The effect will be sales more than doubling over three years as 8 part-time bookkeepers are deployed to client businesses as needed, and salary and dividends to Greenwood increase substantially.
The Sorcerer’s Accountant seeks to provide a full suite of tax and management accounting services for small businesses in Chicago, Illinois, allowing business owners to not only save money over in-house accounting and ensure their compliance with tax laws, but to make valuable management decisions from their numbers.
Question The above text is an excerpt of a business plan. Which statement below is correct?
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The text below is an excerpt of a business plan It is the mission of Marrowstone Advertising Consultants to provide comprehensive marketing consultation and creation of advertising campaigns for the nonprofit industry. It is our long-term goal to become the preferred advertising agency for nonprofit institutions nationwide. Our firm is not interested in simply producing a service for our clients. We believe in creating a long-term relationship with them so that the delivery of their message becomes a seamless and thought-provoking experience that engenders action.
Marrowstone Advertising Consultants will be a limited liability partnership registered in the state of Delaware for tax purposes. Its founder is Mr. Curtiss Cole, a former marketing executive with the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Cole has brought together a highly respected group of marketing, development, and graphic art specialists who, combined, have a total of 35 years of experience with nonprofit organizations.
The company has a limited number of private investors and does not plan to go public. The company has its main offices in Reston, Virginia. The facilities include a design lab, conference rooms and office spaces. The company expects to begin offering its services in January. The firm offers a complete, custom advertising campaign that covers all audio-visual and printed media. Examples include radio and television ads, billboards, building advertisements, brochures, direct mailing, business cards, etc. Management has designed a proven and effective seven step process to building a winning campaign.
Question The above text is an excerpt of a business plan. Which statement below is correct?
What is the WorkKeys Test and What does it Include?
ACT WorkKeys is a series of assessments and curricula that measure your career readiness by assessing your foundational and soft skills. The test scores are used to establish your aptitude for a specific career path or to show your competencies to potential employers.
The WorkKeys assessment is used by individuals looking to enter a new stage of their education, begin a career, or make a change to their current job role. Employers use the ACT WorkKeys test scores when making decisions about employee appointments and training. The ACT WorkKeys can help employers hire the right talent and retain a top-performing workforce.
Generally, candidates who have applied for a job where the hiring company requires the National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC) take the WorkKeys skills assessment. A candidate is granted an NCRC upon the successful completion of the WorkKeys test. The NCRC is a highly recognized work readiness credential. It certifies the necessary work skills needed for success in job roles across various industries.
Candidates who score at the bronze level (at least 3) in Applied Math, Graphic Literacy and Workplace Documents are entitled to receive the ACT’s National Career Readiness Certificate. Candidates need to score at least a “3” in all three assessments to show college and career readiness. Workplaces and organizations typically recognize the National Career Readiness Certificate and not the individual tests themselves.
There are eight kinds of assessment tests, each differing in the sorts of skills they evaluate.
The WorkKeys Test Types
Let’s take a look at the eight kinds of WorkKeys assessment tests individually.
Applied Math
The Applied Math assessment tests your critical thinking skills, your mathematical reasoning abilities, and your capacity to solve problems, concerning common workplace scenarios.
In this section, you will need to answer 34 math-related questions ranging from simple mathematical operations to word problems and statistical analysis depending on which level of difficulty you choose to sit (from Level 3 to 7). The test needs to be completed within a 55-minute time limit.
Test-takers are allowed to use a calculator and they will also be provided with a formula sheet that contains relevant formulas and conversion tables needed to answer several questions in the test.
Graphic Literacy
This 38-item test is a form of a cognitive skills test that aims to measure your ability to extract, analyze, and interpret information using graphic resources like graphs, tables, maps, blueprints, and charts. You will be given 55 minutes to complete it.
Like the Applied Math test, the Graphics Literacy test contains seven levels with 3 being the lowest and 7 being the highest or most complex.
At the lower ability levels, you only have to identify correct information by analyzing the graphic representation presented in the test. At the middle ability levels, you are expected to not only identify which information is correct but to also be able to identify patterns, make comparisons, and derive reasonable interpretations from the information provided. At the high ability levels, examinees are expected to utilize various data points to compare and interpret multiple trends, deduce conclusions, and justify these conclusions.
Workplace Documents
This test 35-item test aims to measure your ability to read and comprehend workplace documents such as emails, procedures, policies, bulletins, memos, contracts, and even websites so that they can make good job-related decisions. You will have 55 minutes to complete this assessment.
In the Workplace Documents assessment, there are five levels of difficulty ranging from level 3 through to level 7.
Applied Technology
The Applied Technology assessment tests your knowledge of fundamental principles and skills in the following area of technology: mechanics, electricity, fluid dynamics, and thermodynamics. This assessment requires you to apply your reasoning skills, rather than your math skills, so you will be able to problem-solve without the use of formulas or calculations.
Individuals that use the applied technology skills are expected to:
Identify which components of a problem are important Analyze a problem by recognizing the problem and its components Decide on the order to maintain when tackling parts of the problem Apply existing materials, tools, or methodologies to unique scenarios The test contains 34 questions. The online version of the test takes 55 minutes and the paper-and-pencil version takes 45 minutes to complete.
There are four levels of difficulty in this assessment, ranging from Level 3 through to Level 6, (6 being the most complex). As with the other assessment types, each of the levels builds on each other.
Business Writing
The Business Writing assessment evaluates the skills needed to write an authentic response to a work-related scenario. In this test, you will be assessed concerning skill areas such as; sentence structure, grammar, mechanics, word usage and word choice, tone, organization, focus, and the way you develop your ideas. You will be presented with 1 written prompt.
There are five skill levels in this assessment, ranging from Level 1 through to Level 5 (with Level 5 being the most complex). Each level demands an increased amount of skill. The writing that an individual produces should be more fluid and communicate more clearly as they move to Level 5. Furthermore, an individual should make fewer errors and the errors that are made should be less significant as they move to Level 5.
At all Levels, you will be required to read one written prompt and then to write your response. You will have 30 minutes to complete the assessment.
Workplace Observation
The Workplace Observation test evaluates your skills in observing, following, understanding, and evaluating demonstrations, procedures, demonstrations, and other work processes. The assessment features 35 questions and needs to be completed in 55 minutes. Workplace observations assessment includes 5 levels (Level 5 being the most complex).
At low levels, you will need to follow what you observe. In this way, you will be required to imitate all, or sections of, a basic demonstration, procedure, or process. You will also need to interpret what you observe, for example, basic instructions, demonstrations, procedures, or processes.
At the middle levels, you will be required to synthesize what you observe. You will need to combine more than one step that has been shown in an observed procedure, demonstration, or process. You will also need to ignore multiple distractions that could interfere with your ability to remember details.
At high levels, you will need to analyze what you observe. In this way, you will need to demonstrate that you can anticipate outcomes, form inferences, and extend out the application of information from an observed process, demonstration, or procedure. You will also be required to evaluate what you observe. You will need to show that you can evaluate which alternative is most fitting, according to an earlier observation.
Fit Assessment
The Fit assessment evaluates the values and interests of an individual in connection to the workplace setting. This test provides information that can be used to see how well an individual fits in with the job roles of an organization. In this way, the Fit assessment is used to cross-reference your attitudes, interests, and values, with those held by a prospective employer.
There Fit assessment is made up of two parts:
1. The ACT Interest Inventory: The inventory measures six fundamental interests; business, operations, administration and sales, technical, science and technology, arts, and social services, and addresses the spectrum of fundamental work tasks.
2. The Work Values Inventory: The Work Values Inventory is made up of 18 values such as; autonomy, public contact, influencing others, intellectual stimulation, order, creativity, and precision.
The Fit assessment consists of 102 questions and takes 15-20 minutes to complete online.
Talent Assessment
The Talent assessment measures four areas: discipline, teamwork, customer service, and an individual’s potential for a managerial role. This test measures behaviors and attitudes, rather than cognitive abilities. The results give a general picture of the personality of an individual, and whether they are a good match for a given business or organization.
The test features 165 questions and needs to be completed in 30-35 minutes.
WorkKeys F.A.Q.
Can I use a calculator on WorkKeys?
Yes, 4-function, graphing, or scientific calculators are allowed on the Applied Mathematics section of the test.
What is a passing score for WorkKeys?
Bronze – Candidates need to earn a level score of 3 or more on each test. Silver – Candidates need to earn a level score of 4 or higher on each test. Gold – Candidates need to earn a level score of 5 or higher on each exam. Platinum – Candidates need to earn a level score of 6 or higher on each exam.
How long does it take to get WorkKeys results?
It can take between 1-3 hours to get your WorkKeys results.
Prepterminal’s WorkKeys Practice Prep Course
PrepTerminal’s ACT WorkKeys Preparatory Course has been carefully crafted by our expert instructional team, who have invaluable experience and knowledge of the WorkKeys practice test material and testing experience. Our full curriculum-based course helps ensure that test-takers can prepare well and succeed in this difficult series of assessments.
Our team has developed a curated module-based study guide that features all the most up-to-date and relevant information on the WorkKeys assessments. Our prep course has study guides, Workkeys practice test questions, and full Workkeys practice tests that contain all of the subjects, questions, and question formats that will appear in the actual exam.
Here at PrepTerminal, we know that everyone has the potential to shine in this test and to receive the National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC). Secure your future by practicing today with us, PrepTerminal!
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Pass ACT Workkeys Test: Updated Guide and Free Practice Tests (2021)
Last updated 12/2020
ACT WorkKeys tests measure skills that employers consider necessary for success in the workplace. The ACT WorkKeys assessment system is used by people looking to enter the next phase of their education, embark on a new career, or advance in their current job role.
We, at Prepterminal, have created a series of free Workkeys practice tests. Discover your benchmark testing score. Start preparing for your Workkeys test with our Workkeys practice tests free today.