General Clerical Grammar & Spelling Tests

Ensure that your candidate has the skills you need with the General Clerical Grammar & Spelling Test.  It assess a candidate’s ability to correctly use the various parts of speech in written communication.

The General Clerical Grammar assessment measures the candidate’s ability to correctly use the various parts of speech in written communication. The General Clerical Grammar assessment covers subject-verb agreement, sentence structure, and punctuation.

The General Clerical Spelling multiple choice assessment identifies the candidate’s ability to identify correctly spelled words in written communication. The General Clerical Spelling multiple-choice assessment covers plurals, prefixes, suffixes, abbreviations, and common errors.

What It’s Best Used For

• Pre-Employment Clerical Vetting: Screening incoming job applicants or current employees targeting communication-sensitive office tracks, such as secretaries, data entry clerks, and administrative assistants.
• Auditing Sentence Structure and Formatting: Testing a candidate’s mastery of basic sentence elements, subject-verb agreement, verb tenses, and structural traps like fragments, run-ons, or misplaced modifiers.
• Verifying Punctuation and Parts of Speech: Measuring how flawlessly an operator deploys punctuation rules, auxiliary verbs, adverbs, and pronoun choices (such as the proper usage of who versus whom).
• Measuring Visual Spelling Accuracy: Benchmarking an applicant’s core capability to quickly identify correctly spelled words, correct suffixes, prefixes, plurals, and common linguistic errors.
• Rapid Unproctored Pre-Screening: Implementing early, web-based recruitment filters that remote or work-from-home candidates can complete securely from any computer without active supervisor monitoring.

General Clerical Grammar & Spelling Tests

Time Allowed: 10 min time limit/20 for Grammar
Number of Questions: 30
Questions per Skill Level: 10 Beginning, 10 Intermediate, 10 Advanced
Number of Sittings: One
Designed for Unproctored Environment: Yes
Question Format: Multiple Choice
Product Category: Clerical

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Competencies Measured

Test Topics Questions / Topic

Adverb Clauses – 1
Auxiliary Verbs – 2
Basic Sentence Elements – 3
Conditionals – 1
Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers – 1
Parts of Speech – 4
Pronoun Usage – 4
Pronoun Usage – 2
Punctuation – 3
Punctuation – 2
Sentence Fragments / Run-on – 1
Subject-Verb Agreement – 2
Verb Tenses – 1
Verb Tenses – 1
Verb Tenses – 1
Who, Whom, Whoever, and Whomever – 1