Cashier Math Test

Avoid hiring cashiers or servers without the math skills they need to serve your customers quickly and competently with the Cashier Math Test!

Purpose

The Cashier Math Test assesses basic math skills for retail tasks where employees have to do some calculations about the total bill and make change.

What It’s Best Used For

This test is best used during the initial pre-employment phase to screen out applicants with poor math skills before investing company time and money into their onboarding. It is highly recommended for any entry-level role where employees operate a cash register, handle cash transactions, or write up manual customer tickets.

• Verifying Financial Precision: The test is split into 7 routine arithmetic problems (such as adding up bill totals) and 9 applied word problems (such as calculating the exact change a customer should receive back).
• Increasing Transactional Speed: High-performing individuals are proven to figure out total bills much faster, catch arithmetic errors quickly, and keep register discrepancies to a minimum.
• Minimizing Line Delays and Errors: Low-scoring candidates are statistically likely to work slowly at checkout stations and make frequent cash-handling mistakes that frustrate customers.
• Remote-Ready Deployment: Built for single-sitting, unproctored web delivery, the assessment supports both English and Spanish language tracks, delivers immediate online score reports, and is fully legal for use in Canada.

When To Use It

Where employees are working a cash register or writing up tickets for retail purchases or meals in a restaurant. The test is appropriate for screening out people with minimal math skills.

Target Group

People applying for retail positions that involve handling money.

High Scorers

People who score high on the Cashier Math Test should be quicker at figuring total bills, making change, and spotting problems with arithmetic.

Low Scorers

People who score low on this test will be slow in figuring customers’ bills and make a lot of mistakes.

Number of Items

16

Time Limits

None

Validity

This is a test that uses “real-life” situations to evaluate capacity for handling monetary transactions in a retail setting.  Scores are provided as “Percent Correct”.

Sample Items

There are 7 arithmetic problems such as:

$35.50 + 14.35 = (a) 39.85 (b) 39.75 {c) $44.55{d) 49.85 (e) 50.85

And there are 9 word problems such as:

A customer’s purchase is $8.When he gives you $20, what will you give back in change?
(a) $2.00 (b) $12.00 {c) $10.00 (d) $12.99 (e) $28.00