General Clerical Skills Tests

The General Clerical Skills Tests Series (formerly the Internet-Based 5 Minute General Clerical Skills Tests ) assess 16 different clerical/office skills abilities in about 5 minutes per test.

The General Clerical Skills Tests Series are a quick, inexpensive way to test candidates for the skills you require. These tests are used to pre-screen job applicants and in-house personnel in any position requiring specific administrative and clerical skills. Each test requires less than 7 minutes (except for Bookkeeping which takes 20).  Any combination of titles can be purchased in minimum quantities of 25 tests per order.

What It’s Best Used For

• Alphabetizing & Filing: Measuring the immediate ability to store and retrieve files in strict alphabetical order.
• Attention To Detail: Testing an applicant’s capacity to spot likenesses and data differences rapidly and accurately.
• Bookkeeping Foundations: Assessing a candidate’s comfort handling financial materials, ledgers, and typical accounting problems.
• Coding & Numerical Skills: Checking facility with numbers, formula coding, symbols, files, and simple workplace arithmetic.
• Grammar, Punctuation & Literacy: Auditing written correspondence skills, word comprehension, spelling accuracy, and verbal communication fluency.
• Receptionist & Interpersonal Diplomacy: Vetting frontline telephone etiquette and situational problem-solving logic.
• Cognitive Problem Solving: Measuring deductive and inductive reasoning alongside spatial perception and mechanical forces.
• Fine Motor Manual Dexterity: Tracking muscle control, eye-hand coordination, and fine movement precision.

The Clerical Skills Tests Series includes

• Alphabetizing & Filing – Designed to measure the ability to store and retrieve files in alphabetical order.
• Attention To Detail – Ability to recognize likenesses and differences rapidly and accurately.
• Bookkeeping – Measures the ability to handle some of the materials and problems with which an experienced bookkeeper deals.
• Coding – Ability to code numbers and symbols according to a simple formula.
• Grammar & Punctuation – Measures grammar, punctuation ability and the skill to do correspondence.
• Manual Dexterity – Measures aptitude for fine and gross muscle control and coordination of eye and hand.
• Mechanical Comprehension – Measures the ability to perceive and understand the relationship of physical forces and mechanical elements in practical situations.
• Numerical Skills – Facility with numbers, files, codes, symbols and simple arithmetic.
• Problem Solving Ability – Measures logical ability, deductive and inductive reasoning.
• Proofreading Skills – Measures the ability to proofread. – Available only in paper and scored via fax-back answer sheets.
• Reading Comprehension – Measures the ability to read and understand the English language.
• Receptionist Skills – Ability to deal with situations that face a receptionist including telephone etiquette.
• Spatial Perception – Measures the candidate’s space relations aptitude.
• Spelling – Measures knowledge of words and the ability to spell correctly.
• Verbal Fluency – Ability to think of words rapidly: to write or talk without blocking or searching for the right word.
• Vocabulary – Measures the ability to communicate easily and fluently with others.

Each title comes in a package of 25 that includes all the necessary scoring materials.

• Hand-Scored
• Paper/Pencil

Languages

• English
• French

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