General Reasoning Aptitude Test

Evaluate different areas of knowledge and mental ability based on several types of reasoning including numerical, verbal, logic, and more.

The General Reasoning Aptitude Test is a quick, 12-minute timed online screening tool designed to measure a job candidate’s overall mental ability and problem-solving capacity. Rather than focusing on a single topic, this efficient 50-question assessment evaluates an applicant’s core fluid intelligence by testing a broad blend of verbal reasoning, logic, numerical math skills, spatial reasoning, and basic knowledge. It delivers an immediate online scorecard to help hiring managers look past resume inflation and make objective, data-backed decisions.

Purpose

The General Reasoning Aptitude Test provides a quick, easy-to-administer test of a job candidate’s general mental ability.  Like most general intelligence tests, it taps several types of reasoning: Verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning, logic, math skills, spatial reasoning, and basic knowledge. It is designed to give a single measure of mental ability based on several types of mental processes. If you want a quick timed measure of general mental ability that provides one score this is the right choice.

What’s It Best Used For

• Pre-Employment Screening: Vetting incoming job seekers early in your recruitment pipeline to verify their general cognitive readiness.
• Identifying Fast Learners: Pinpointing high-potential professionals who can grasp difficult concepts independently and pick up new training quickly.
• Predicting Problem-Solving Success: Finding candidates who can easily manage dense workloads, navigate operational complexity, and make logical, insightful decisions.
• Internal Promotion Audits: Evaluating existing employees to make data-backed choices for structural transfers or leadership advancement.
• Comprehensive Multi-Test Profiling: Combining this overview assessment with other technical or personality tests to build a highly optimized view of an applicant.

It is entirely legal to use in Canada.

The General Reasoning Test can be used with our other tests for more in-depth analysis of candidates.

About the Test

This 12-minute timed test has 50 multiple-choice items.

When To Use It

If you want a quick timed measure of general mental ability that provides one score this is the right choice.

Target Group

This test can be used with any type candidate.

High Scorers

High scorers are quick to pick up new information, are alert to new ideas that might be applied to their jobs, are capable of grasping difficult concepts on their own, handle a large fund of information, deal with various forms of complexity in a job with ease, and are able assess relevant factors in ambiguous situations to come up with logical, insightful decisions.

Low Scorers

Low scorers need structured learning experiences to consume new information. They need rules and procedures to guide their decision making on the job. Preferring jobs with narrow assignments and responsibilities, low scorers do not cope well with complexity or volume of information.

Validity

The test correlates highly (r=.76**) with the Wonderlic Personnel Test, r=.83** with MAB-Verbal, r=.91** with MAS-Performance, and r=.91** with MAB-Full Scale.(MAB is the Multiple Aptitude Battery). It also correlates r=.72** with the Resource Associates Cognitive Aptitude Test, r=.36** with the B scale on the 16PF,r=.86..with the Otis Lennon Mental Ability Test, and .90** with college grade point average (i.e. academic achievement).These data are solid evidence that the predictive power of scores on the General Reasoning Test is very similar to other tests of general mental ability, thus demonstrating convergent validity.