Comprehensive Basic Math Skills

Use the Comprehensive Basic Math Skills Test to screen applicants for basic arithmetic, decimals and fractions skills, for any position.

Purpose

The Comprehensive Basic Math Skills test measures a candidates ability to do basic arithmetic, including decimals and fractions.

What It’s Best Used For

This test is best used during the early pre-employment hiring phase or for internal talent audits to verify financial precision and line speed before investing corporate training resources. It is highly optimized for evaluating transactional staff, including retail clerks, customer service agents, estimators, sales teams, and wait staff.

• Vetting 3 Numerical Foundations: The exam explicitly tests accuracy across basic arithmetic, decimals, and fractions.
• Evaluating Practical Business Math: It checks real-world transactional capabilities, verifying that an applicant can compute complex customer bills, calculate precise discounts, and issue accurate refunds.
• Statistically Correlated Success: Validated research proves that high test scores strongly tie to crucial on-the-job habits, including overall job performance (r=.29), work quality (r=.37), productivity (r=.22), and teamwork (r=.23).
• Predicting Stress & Learning Capacity: Test metrics reveal a candidate’s baseline dependability, their natural agility when executing tasks under tight deadlines (r=.28), and their capacity to absorb new professional training (r=.28).

The unproctored platform delivers an immediate online score report complete with a trait score chart, a summary of operational risks, and a customized bank of suggested interview questions. The entire testing pipeline uses English formatting and is fully legal for use in Canada.

When to use it

About the Test

The test contains

• 50 questions
• 6 minute timed test

Target group

We recommend using the Comprehensive Basic Math Skills Test for positions such as retail clerks, customer service and sales representatives, estimators and wait staff.

What the Report Gives You

A graphical display of trait scores, a list of strengths and developmental concerns, and suggested interview questions.

Validity: In several studies The Comprehensive Basic Math Skills Test was significantly related: (r=.30**) with composite job performance ratings; .22*) with productivity; (r=.24*) with dependability; (r=.28**) with ability to work under stress; (r=.20*) with productivity; (r=.28*) with new learning; (r=.37**) with quality; (r=.23*) with teamwork; (r=.29**) with overall job performance rating.