How To Pass A Numerical Reasoning Practice Test (Part 1)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.พ. 2015
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Anybody like me and read the question and it feels like I'm suddenly reading hieroglyphic, so I need to reread it 3 more times, oh by the way times up.
enigma
Lol exactly
Hi mr bridges ur fit
DO you know what sucks, we spend so many years doing tests in Uni, and when we graduate we have to do more tests to get a job.
@@bbcfromoon Fuck you're so right, on top of this we pay so much for uni but they don't offer any help in preparing for these type of tests. I mean with the amount we're paying surely they could run some workshops and seminars working through these tests to prepare us.
I study maths at uni and even I struggle with these types of tests. The time ticker freaks me out!
+rl7413 Most people feel the same! The timed component applies an element of pressure that most people feel uncomfortable with... Be clear on your per-question timings at the outset to ensure you don't fall behind.
rl7413 If you struggle i have no chance
Ι'm an engineer and i feel you so much ! i hate these tests.
*Practice makes perfect! ;)*
You give me hope.
I bet that not even 15% of employees at Citi, Barclays or Goldman are able to get a 70% pass rate at that test if they did it on Monday.
why especially Monday, not another day
It means coming into work on a Monday morning after the weekend off. Your brain is not always firing on all cylinders when you return to work after the weekend. :-P
@@guitarman813 are you a mechanic or something in this field :P
I just bombed at citi bank and I’m usually pretty good at math.
The actual math per question is relatively easy. It is the comprehension of the actual question that is the killer! Due to time pressure, you may wish to 'skim' read which is the WRONG thing to do. If there are 20 questions, aim to get 14 right which will allow you time to fully read the questions
But sir, the problem is that questions are timed and you'll get hardly a minute to finish each. After a minute expires, the system would automatically will redirect you to the next question. This is extremely frustrating and I guess these tests are meant only for mathematicians.
I think one of the best tips I got for numerical reasoning tests was to make sure you had the right computer set up. It's way easier to take these tests with Excel and a mouse than with a hand calculator. This is because it's much quicker to enter the data with a key board than with your fingers on a shitty little calculator. The other tip was to use two screens - that way you can have the test open in one, and Excel open in the other, so you don't need to alt-tab between the windows. Every second counts with these tests and this really saves time. I found that here: th-cam.com/video/QvQP6KCNH7A/w-d-xo.html
A small tip I have for most people is to use the store button on your calculator to store answers. On a FX 911 ES (standard calculator for a-level students), press shift-STO and use any letter such as A,B,C. You need to be able to store answers quickly, writing them down is too long and disadvantageous because you have to type in the calculator again. I'm not good at these tests either, but at least this helps me a little bit.
I feel like this is as much as comprehension test as a numerical reasoning test, the zooma 1 and zooma 2 only serves to confuse people in the short amount of time they have.
If only I thought about looking for these kind of videos before taking those numerical reasoning test, 1 question 75 - 90 seconds, so crazy! Thanks for the video by way, a new hope for future tests.
Although time adds to the pressure, the hardest thing in some ways for me personally is actually understanding the question. And that's what you need to do regardless of how much time you have left during the test. These tests, test your ability to understand the question and how long it takes for you to understand the question and then answer it within the allotted time-frame (i.e. approx. 45-60 secs per question). Easier said that done I know. I find numerical reasoning tests the most challenging out of all the different types of psychometric tests.
1. Manage your time carefully; 2. read question; 3. see-saw between Q and data; 4. Stay Calm; 5. Find out who the test supplier is; 6. Practice, Practice, Practice! (watch both videos though as he goes through a couple examples in each)
Usually questions are easy. Time is the biggest issue.
Nice overdub at 7:55 when John said B instead of C
Lap Chieu Brilliant!!! Haha
WTF this guy can't do it himself when mans has a mans to help mans as well n no timing
Says a lot when the gentlemen brought in to explain these tests doesn’t get the correct answer at the end of it....
Lap Chieu Beecee 😂
He’s a maths teacher at my school lmao
This was really helpful, thanks a lot!
These tests do not indicate some one capabilities or capacity in doing a job, they are just cut off point really
For the second question I think you took a correct approach but maybe too long:
220 * 1.15 will give us the july cost which is 253.
We know that 253 = 3.3% of the total expenditure, so total expenditure is: 253/0.033 = 7667 :)
Juan Di
Now try using the same method bu5 now calculate 90% of the total expenditures. What you are doing is that you are just not writing that you divide the 3.3% by 100.
thanks diego
Clever clogs lol E=mc2
Thanks.i was totally lost
Sometime knowing how to solve maths has no bearing whatsoever on whether you are fit to do a job or not. Just a pointless exercise
100% especially when you're not going to use it in your job
not just doing math, doing it in less than 75 fucking seconds per question
Helped me get a graduate job!! THANK YOU!
Very useful, thanks!!
Hi Mike, do you have any idea who supplies numerical reasoning tests for British American Tobacco?.
I learnt it's IBM, but I can't seem to find any IBM numerical and verbal reasoning tests. Could you direct to where I can find this tests?
I got 23 and 7229, the question is not only numerical but also tests your intelligence and understanding of question
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Thanks for uploading this videos.
Its very very helpfull.
Excellent video 👍
Very useful! Thank you :)
great job!
He’s an amazing math teacher we’ve had him for 2 years now
Oh yes
Mr bridges is amazing
@@ch0k3vlogs70 yeah
@@ch0k3vlogs70 Yes, he's the literal best-
for the second question
i always had this habit of using a different method which also gives the same answer
instead of dividing 3.3 by 253 i divide 3.3 by 100 and use this number (to find out how many times i would need to times to get the answer), so 30.30 times by 253 to give 7666.6
Yeah, you could be Einstein but just that little bit too slow in answering so its like 'nope! no interview for you!'
I hv been trying to solve that second question since last week
Great video!!!
Nicely taught, thanks. Also please the data should be bigger to enable proper visibility I was squinting through the whole lecture.
It helps a lot
sometimes i have to re-read the questions more than once or even twice and by then my time has gone so i freak out and move to the next question thinking i'd come back but i dont. how do you manage that?
+Bukola Smart I have this exact problem also. I find it really hard to focus and understand what the question is asking me when I'm being timed.
I'm exactly the same i freak out too much and the only advise i would give is that keep doing more practice tests.
I find these tests so random, I study finance, stats, economics and accounting and all my interviews as for these tests, but I learnt nothing about how to super speed random math questions in my degree, so why these tests? So now I'm going through a pack of practice tests and am just going to practice, practice practice untill I can do it. And also log bakc into the careers website for a job I didn't get after failing this test and practice that one again too lol (maybe the next job will use the same test, that'd be convieniant).
I totally agree with you, I'm nearly to finish my bachelor in administration in one of the most important college in South America and we never learnt nothing like this, how can this define if I'm a good or bad for that position?
Araceli Fernández I guess it’s more about how you handle pressure? You have such short time for each question, you need to stay calm and focus on the task and just try your best.
What is this? the second question was so confusing. Please try to understand that some people have only the idea of basic maths.
I just got a 3.5 in Calc 1 and 2 and I failed this test for an internship. I had less than 1 minute for each question and questions were more like riddles, very confusing to find what they were really asking for.
Yeah, these tests are more like a filter. They use this to weed out more people and reduce their candidate pools, so they can make a decision much quicker.
Can you please let me know that how are we supposed to tackle these sort of questions if we aren't allowed calculators in the paper. Even if the question mentions to round the answer to the nearest thousand etc, the answers as still quite close to give it a spot on guess.
How do you pass verbal reasoning test.
How long are you supposed to take on questions like these? They are more complex than some so it takes longer to figure out how to do it.
good vid nice tips
Life is hard but numerical reasoning tests make it harder.
Thanks, where is part2
how do multiply 220 by 1.15 as the question asks for 15% increase; which should be .15 instead of 1.15
Dude you've made the questions even more complicated !!
+Moe Al Obaid That was definitely not our intention :-)
I would like to believe so. It was just a notion to simplify it a little more. Thanks !
Hahaha..that's wht I was thinking
Yes@assessmentCenterHQ..to start with, the first calculation is wrong..13% becomes 0.13 as a decimal not 1.3..that alone has turned me off this video
lessie owolabi you’re wrong. It wasn’t 1.3 - it was 1.13. And you put 1.13 instead of 0.13 as you are finding an percentage increase instead of finding 13% of a number.
Is it a requirement to answer every question-right or wrong, or to answer what you can- right?
Unsure why on the second question you used the data from transport and household maintenance. prob silly question but missing something.
Is this a Talent Q test?
These tests make me feel so dumb ffs
Hello someone have access of the questions currently available in the assessment 2020. I done the assessment but I can't reply one question mathematical of mongolia and his 3.9 millons and percents between population urban and rural: 57% y 43%
"You'll find the answer Is":
/overriding voice "C"
I'm a bit confused as to why I would use multiply using 1.13 instead of 0.13 or just plain
.13
if it increase by 13%, it means itself times (1+13%)
multiplying by 0.13 would give you 13% of the original value. By putting 1.13 the one before the decimal point acts as the original value, such as multiplying a number by itself you will get the same number. So 1.13 is the original value plus the 13% increase, easier than finding the percentage then adding it on, it's the same math this is just faster.
This is the problem for me too taking these tests. Nobody explains where they get the figures from
Funny how the Mathematician answers 'B' for the second question but there is a nice voiceover to change it to C, but you can clearly read from his lips he is saying B.... If that was the tricky part to detect in an assessment, I nailed it ;)
why do you times it by 1.13?
+hotcupofsoup loooooooool
+hotcupofsoup When you calculate a percentage of some number, you're essentially calculating a fraction of the number. For example: 50% of 200 is 100, in other words, 1/2 of 200 is 100. In the above video, we are dealing with an increase in profits so calculating like above will only give how much the price increased/decreased by and not the end price. So to find the profit after the 13% increase, It is the fraction plus the original amount so 13% + 100% = 113%=1.13. Hope that helps and I didn't confuse you.
+Mit Prem That was a very thorough explanation, thank you.
mit prem thank you so much !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was wondering about that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so if you have increased profit you need to do it for example 100 % 13 % = 113 % !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But if you have decreasion is just normal ...
why multiply by 1.13? How did you get that number. I didn't study maths in the UK, so I don't understand what calculation gave him that number
This is the formula for an increase in a percentage :
New Value = (1+increase) x (original amount)
So, in your case:
New value = (1+ 0.15) x220= 253
They gave me this for a internship to rocket science, can you believe that?!
nope
"Why do we have to manage time so carefully?" man we have 45 seconds to do it guess why
I feel confused about the second question. what about calculating the Total expenditures of June and then calculating the July?
Answer:
220 / 3.5% = 6285.7 (Total expenditures of June)
6285.7 * 1.15 = 7228.5 (increased by 15%, Total expenditures of July)
so the answer is B
You may increase your consumption by 15%, but you have different percentage of total family cost which on July is 3.3%. What you have done is that you applied the increase in a 3.5% of total family cost for July too.
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That second question was really confusing
I feel like they explained it kind of weird, but it is a pretty short video:
The first step of the problem doesn't really involve the data table at all. You know the June expenditure is $220, you need to find out the July expenditure; since it's a 15% increase, multiply by 1.15 --> $253.
The second step of the problem is to find out what the total family expenditure is in July, and for this you need the table. Entertainment in July made up a total of 3.3% of the family's expenses, as indicated by the table header.
Here's where I think they lost a few people (and lost me for a minute or two):
3.3% of the total was $253, so I'd write it as 3.3=253. You then write out what you have out of what you want,
so you have 3.3% out of the 100% that you want, you have $253 out of an unknown number (N) that you want to have.
3.3/100 = 253/N
you then cross-multiply and/or move around the equation so that you're solving for N --> 253x100 = 3.3xN --> 25300 = 3.3xN --> 25300 / 3.3 = N.
The video used a different order of operations to complete the same task; they skipped the equation gymnastics and used the following logic:
dividing 253 by 3.3 gives you 1% of the total family expenditure, then multiplying by 100 will give you 100% of the expenditure. Rewriting this would like: 253/3.3=N/100 --> 76.666 = N/100 --> 76.666 x 100 = N --> 7666.6 = N
I prefer my method because I can fill in the gaps with the data that I KNOW and the data that I WANT to find, but I hoped this explanation helped people who were struggling with question 2.
Thanks a lot Sister
Your method takes way too long, remember these are timed tests.
No. You can't round up! That is the wrong word, and It does matter in that case. Even with 24.001 you will have to choose 25. You just have to understand the question.
Hi I do not understand why 25 is the minimum if we round it UP? I thought it would be 24??
nashattar singh If you had bought 24, you would be left with 0.667 unaccounted for.
Examples are not visible since they are shown by a chart which is not readable.
John is my maths teacher!
Sameeee
increase of 15%, why is it being multiplied by 1.15?
Because an increase in 15% equates to multiplying the value by itself, and then a further 15%.
You can break this down to multiplying by itself (1) and 15% (0.15). Why 0.15? Because 15% = 15 PER CENT = 15/100 = 0.15
Combine those actions and multiply the value by 1.15.
Thanks!
multiplying by 1.15 is confusing. there's a simple way to explain this. ''15% increase'' means add 15% of the original number to the number. 15% decrease means reduce 15% of the original number from the number.
Zadok Doye I don't understand how it's confusing. It's simple mathematics and it makes intuitive sense.
This is the formula for an increase in a percentage :
New Value = (1+increase) x (original amount)
So, in your case:
New value = (1+ 0.15) x220= 253
P.S always change 15% to 0.15 because easier to calculate.
Time and nerves always get me with these :-(
I think it is designed to test time management with questions that are deliberately put in as time wasters you are meant to so last.
some of us with basic maths are missing out. how can you say 15% of 220 is 220*1.15 = 253? I know 15% of 220 is 15/100 *220= 33. Thus to get the increase add 220 + 33
+walterrodney nagumo , he meant 15% increase of 220 which is 1.15*220=253, another way to think of it is if its increasing by 15% then you do 15% of original value which is 15*220=33 so if it's increasing by 15% then the new value is the original 220 plus the 33= 253. Hope that makes sense, its the same thing but just quicker to do 1.15
+Moira Mukwawaya 100%+15%=115% which is 1.15 :)
+walterrodney nagumo multiplying it by 1.15 saves you time from adding it later basically. your way works, but that way is must faster. so if they ask you that 'X' got an increase of 30% from the original price of 150, then what you do is '1.3 x 150 = 195'. If you use your way then its: '30/100 = 0.3/ 0.3 x 150 = 45/ 45 + 150 = 195'
see, its basically the same result, just less working out and less time consuming :)
quite helpful explanation
In China, 12 year olds would easily solve these questions without a calculator, provided questions are written in Chinese. in the States, bunch of grownups are struggling with this... and the US is ruling the earth... how the hell did that happen..
Its not the math that is hard but rather the time constrain. And if the Chinese are so smart, perhaps they should have spend some time learning basic English which is the world's universal language instead of practicing these pointless tests that AI could solve.
We read the queshtion and dont focush on the data
E,e,e,c,b,e,d. How did I do?
Lol, sure that makes sense!
What's the secret? (lemme guess-practice?) ;)
You have taken longer than one minute to do the question. By the time we read the question time is up lol. Ugh, hope I pass.
can you get refused a job because of your result on the numerical ?
I hope not... I'm really bad at maths ..
Yes, absolutely.
Depends on what job you are applying for? if the job involves a lot of maths then I guess yes.
I'm applying for a marketing co-op i really hope they don't take maths extremly serious :^(
Fingers crossed bud!
what happened to Job John no more videos I thought this was really good
Max Be careful different companies such as SHL and Kenexa have unique ways of structuring their questions. It’s better to prepare for a specific style of questions/set of conditions rather than random questions from the internet. Fundamentally you will need to be familiar with ratios, percentages etc. My latest video explains how to deal with SHL/Kenexa type numeric problems
non verbal reasoning or else i know were you live i'm just joking but please non verbal reasoning i have two tests that are next week for secondary school
after just completing the test I can say that this was of absolute no help at all and if anything was counter productive.
how did you convert 15% into a dec.?
Sheenamarie Zabala %/100 = dec Eg: 15/100 = 0.15 :. 15% as a decimal is 0.15, 29.34% is 0.2934 and 0.00486% is 0.0000486. OK?
Think of 100% as being a multiple of 1. E.G, 100% of 2 is 2, so equally, 2x1equals 2. It’s also possible to think of the percentage as being shifted to the left two decimal places, e.g 145% translates to 1.45, 635% to 6.35 etc.
God help me, I have numerical, verbal and abstract assessment online on Tuesday
the problem is that you have an average of 75 second per question..
TEST: 20 Questions in 20 Minutes
TIP N.1: BETTER TIME MANAGEMENT
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*AnSwErS 1 qUeStIoN iN 5 mInUtEs*
Even worse he gets the wrong answer at the end. He had it re-dubbed to "C"
FYI Professor 13/100 = 0.13
FYI sir, multiplying it by 1.13 is conducted in attempt to get the end price
The best-kept SECRET on these tests is the TRICK USED to 'freeze the time' so you can make a cup of tea, get a burger and spend 1 hour per question, double and triple check your choices before submitting a 100% complete and correct test answers - with your personal money-back guarantee to your recruiter :)
how do you freeze the time?
The person cut lots of impportant steps sorry.
Wait, don't you teach guitar too....?
Even the simple fact as 13% increment --> it should be 0.13. Why you put 1.13???
I thought 13% as a decimal is 0.13....? Why so consfusing D:
Yes but it's value increases, so it has to be 13% bigger. So 100% of it's value + 13%. If you multiple only by 0,13, that will mean that it's value decreases 87%.
@@alekozlowska can you do shl test properly?
this horrible! an invisible table on the wall, and why two people if john is doing it,
John is amazing hes my maths teacher
#404#
Qas'nt helpful at all the question is not clear to be seen
Yo John has not aged much
Do you go to Weaverham high school lmao
The Americans built TH-cam and do share incredibly helpful videos on it, but the British only want to use it to sell but remain averagely poor
Nice way to filter out candidates with English as a second language and ethnic minorities even if they are better at mathematics given the time.
I really couldnt follow
Content is good but filming is terrible
The Big Book of British Smiles.
What the actual f*Ck
what rubbish
Hey that's my maths teacher
I'm not trying to be demeaning but this is a maths gcse question GCSE!!! As in 14/15/16 year olds know the answer to this
You do realize that by the time you might need that knowledge, it's already been way out of your head? You get good at math by practicing, if you are not practicing math 8-9 years later, then the knowledge you had at 14/15/16 years etc. is not readily accessible. These type of questions I believe for a position that already requires you to have math skills is fine, but I've had job offers that had no relation to these type of questionnaires and the type of job you actually performed. A lot of the times people just want to get overqualified people for the job with low self esteem. Actually doing the job makes you better at it, unless we're talking about risky jobs, like being a surgeon which you won't be able to get, unless you are a highly trained specialist already.
shhhh shs hshhh shhhs h shhhhs shhh all i heard, dislike
this is terrible, you don't actually explain anything, like e.g. WHY do you have to round up? the vid is full of this sort of inconsistency
If it's 0.5 or higher you round up
Also 24 is not enough. You need a minimum of 25
DONT BULLY
MY MATHS TEACHER
@@ch0k3vlogs70 this is not bullying, I'm saying what I saw as a viewer, and pointing out that as an explanation it falls short. I think it is great that you want to defend him though!
@@simon54 mr bridges is very nice you meany
Replace the guy on the left, his accent is horrible. Wow, his teeth are even worse. Sad
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