Online-Test: A verbal psychometric test (verbal reasoning) (Psychometric)

Identify the word that means the opposite of the given word. Arrest

Choose the correct word(s) from the lists to complete the sentence.

Passage 1: Light is made up of electromagnetic waves. These vary in length and these differences are perceived as different colours. White light contains all wavelengths mixed together. An object looks coloured because light falls on it and it reflects only certain parts of the spectrum while the rest is absorbed. An object that looks white reflects all the light that falls on it; an object that looks red reflects the red part of the spectrum and absorbs the rest. Our eyes detect these different reflected waves and we see them as different colours.
Statement: White paint reflects more light than red paint.

Rearrange the sentences into the order in which they were originally written.

Passage 3: Traditionally medicine was the science of curing illness with treatments. For thousands of years people would have used plants and would have turned to priests for cures. In more recent times illness has been attributed to natural causes rather than to gods or magic. Medicine today is as much concerned with prevention as with cure. Doctors use treatments of many types, including radiation and vaccination, both of which were unknown until very recent times. Other treatments have been known about and practised for centuries; Muslim doctors were skilled surgeons and treated pain with opium. When Europeans first reached the Americas they found healers who used many plants to cure illnesses. The Europeans adopted many of those treatments and some are still effective and in use today.
Statement: The author of the passage believes that prevention is better than cure.

Find the new four-letter word from the end of one given word and the beginning of the next.

Complete the sentences by choosing the correct words for blanks A, B and C.

Swap two words so that the sentence reads sensibly.

Passage 12: Solicitors, doctors and priests have traditionally kept in strict confidence information they hold about or are told by their clients. A doctor will not disclose a patient’s illness to anyone but the patient or next of kin. Priests have sought to keep secret the content of what they learn in the confessional and solicitors have guarded carefully the confidentiality of the client–lawyer relationship. However, under certain circumstances all these professions make exceptions and will break confidences. A doctor must by law report injuries he believes are the result of gunshots and conditions that represent serious threats to public health. Priests have provided information to the police in relation to child abuse cases and murder. Solicitors are required to report only suspicions they have of money laundering. Journalists also adopt a code of confidentiality to protect their sources. They have a reputation for being a profession far less likely to break their code even when ordered by the courts. In a number of high-profile cases journalists have chosen to go to jail for contempt of court rather than reveal the source of a story.
Statement: The passage states that a doctor can be prosecuted if he or she does not report a patient who has suffered gunshot wounds.

Passage 4: Asia is the world’s largest continent and stretches from the Baring Sea in the east to Turkey and Europe in the west. Its southern border comprises many islands, including those that make up Indonesia. Since independence of colonial powers, Asian economies have boomed. First were Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea and later Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. More recently China and India have enjoyed rapid economic growth. The south-west and central parts of the continent are deserts. The Himalayan mountains divide the cold north from the tropical south. The people of Asia make up over two-thirds of the world’s population and they live in the birthplace of the world’s earliest civilizations.
Statement: More of the world’s population live in Asia than in any other continent.

Find the new four-letter word from the end of one given word and the beginning of the next.

Complete the sentence by choosing the correct words for blanks A and B.

Choose two words, one from each list, that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection.

Choose two words—one from each list—that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection. Rebuke is to reprimand as: contingent is to

Passage 6: The theory goes that everything around us is built up of tiny particles called atoms. Some materials are made up of only one type of atom; these are called elements. Others are made up of different sorts of atom bonded together into molecules. Water, for example, is a compound made up of molecules that contain two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. The force which holds atoms together is called bonds. Atoms are made up of even smaller particles such as neutrons, electrons and protons. Neutrons and protons are made up of quarks and gluons. The search is on for the particles that make up quarks.
Statement: It can be inferred from the passage that molecules are made up of neutrons, electrons and protons.

Choose the correct sentence or word(s) according to standard English usage.

Complete the sentence by choosing the correct words for blanks A and B.

Choose the correct word(s) from the lists to complete the sentence.

Rearrange the sentences into the order in which they were originally written.

Choose the word that means the opposite of the given word. Sway

Passage 11: Oil prices have been at record levels and are currently at around $45 a barrel. In the most efficient oilfields it costs only 80 to 90 cents to extract a barrel. Most producing countries want greater oil price stability and fear the effect on their economies and on world demand when, as in recent years, oil prices have fluctuated between $20 and $50 a barrel. In response, some producers are expanding production capacity in order that they can respond more flexibly to demand and rising prices with greater production. Exploration and research into extraction techniques have been commissioned to investigate ways in which production can be expanded. This exploration and research brought unexpected results. Oil analysts have concluded that there is much more oil in the world than current estimates assume and that new techniques make it possible to extract much more of the known reserves economically than previously thought.
Statement: It is reasonable to assume that greater capacity at times of high demand will help stabilize prices.

Passage 7: Credit card fraud has reached £500 million despite the introduction of new controls. Figures show that losses to fraud rose by 20 per cent last year. Most frauds result from cards intercepted in the post. One hundred thousand cards were posted to customers every day last year. This represents rich pickings for fraudsters. The banks knew the year would be difficult because it was thought that fraudsters would try to commit as many crimes as possible before new controls were introduced. It is hoped that by this time next year the effect of the new measures will be known and that the level of fraud will have fallen considerably.
Statement: The level of losses to overall credit card fraud rose by 20 per cent.

Passage 5: In tropical rainforests the climate remains hot and damp all year round. In the Arctic it is cold all year, and in high mountain ranges the climate is much colder than in nearby low-lying lands. Climate is not the same as weather. The weather can change quickly whereas climate describes likely weather conditions over a much longer period. The world is divided into five climate zones. Polar is the only zone where it is always cold; tropical is hot all year round; temperate has warm summers and cold winters; desert is dry and cool; forest has cool, short summers. Mankind can affect climate (e.g., forest fires that obscure the sun; more recently, pollution has affected climate via the greenhouse effect).
Statement: The passage states that the weather in high mountain ranges is cooler than in nearby low-lying areas.

___ trading ahead of the imminent election meant that markets were especially quiet. Volumes were more ___ to those at Christmas with investors reluctant to take up large ___ ahead of the outcome of the ballot.

Choose the correct word(s) from the lists to complete the sentence.

Identify the word that means the opposite of the given word. Unfaltering

___ biggest utility company in the new EU member countries reported that its recent ___ activities had failed to have the desired impact.

Passage 2: Between 1797 and 1815 Europe went through the Napoleonic wars. During this period France was at war with Prussia, Russia, Austria, Spain and Britain. At that time the French army was the most powerful in Europe. By 1808 France had conquered much of the continent and created the largest European empire since the Romans. Napoleon Bonaparte was emperor and military leader. However, a disastrous campaign in Russia, retreat from Spain and British supremacy at sea eventually allowed a combined European force to defeat Napoleon at Waterloo.
Statement: The passage states that the battle of Waterloo took place in 1815.

Passage 12: Solicitors, doctors and priests have traditionally kept in strict confidence information they hold about or are told by their clients. A doctor will not disclose a patient’s illness to anyone but the patient or next of kin. Priests have sought to keep secret the content of what they learn in the confessional and solicitors have guarded carefully the confidentiality of the client–lawyer relationship. However, under certain circumstances all these professions make exceptions and will break confidences. A doctor must by law report injuries he believes are the result of gunshots and conditions that represent serious threats to public health. Priests have provided information to the police in relation to child abuse cases and murder. Solicitors are required to report only suspicions they have of money laundering. Journalists also adopt a code of confidentiality to protect their sources. They have a reputation for being a profession far less likely to break their code even when ordered by the courts. In a number of high-profile cases journalists have chosen to go to jail for contempt of court rather than reveal the source of a story.
Statement: All professions have a confidentiality code but some are stricter than others.

Passage 1: Light is made up of electromagnetic waves. These vary in length and these differences are perceived as different colours. White light contains all wavelengths mixed together. An object looks coloured because light falls on it and it reflects only certain parts of the spectrum while the rest is absorbed. An object that looks white reflects all the light that falls on it; an object that looks red reflects the red part of the spectrum and absorbs the rest. Our eyes detect these different reflected waves and we see them as different colours.
Statement: The passage states that an object that looks blue absorbs all but the blue wavelengths of light.

Complete the analogy by choosing the opposite. Solemn is to frivolous as: rudimentary is to

Passage 3: Traditionally medicine was the science of curing illness with treatments. For thousands of years people would have used plants and would have turned to priests for cures. In more recent times illness has been attributed to natural causes rather than to gods or magic. Medicine today is as much concerned with prevention as with cure. Doctors use treatments of many types, including radiation and vaccination, both of which were unknown until very recent times. Other treatments have been known about and practised for centuries; Muslim doctors were skilled surgeons and treated pain with opium. When Europeans first reached the Americas they found healers who used many plants to cure illnesses. The Europeans adopted many of those treatments and some are still effective and in use today.
Statement: Practitioners of modern medicine make use of many techniques and technologies.

Choose two words—one from each list—that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection. Genre is to class as: obsolete is to

Passage 14: In most parts of the developed world many middle-class people ask themselves whether they should buy or rent a house. In the United States, Spain, Ireland and the UK, most answer ‘Buy’. In these countries house prices have almost doubled over the past seven years. Other parts of the developed world have not seen such inflation and the passage asks if it is realistic to assume that prices will always continue to rise. Some argue that paying rent is like throwing money away and that it is better to repay a mortgage and build equity. But what if house prices fall? A small adjustment could wipe out the equity of many home owners. If house price inflation is a thing of the past, then home ownership becomes less attractive. Renting has some advantages too; people who rent find it easier to move for their work.
Statement: Spaniards have seen their homes more than double in value.

A rescue plan for Village Leisure, the ___ media company, was agreed by shareholders at an extraordinary ___.

Rearrange the sentences into the order in which they were originally written.

Complete the analogy by choosing the opposite. Different is to corresponding as: superior is to

Find the new four-letter word from the end of one given word and the beginning of the next.

Find the new four-letter word from the end of one given word and the beginning of the next.

Swap two words so that the sentence reads sensibly.

Rearrange the sentences into the order in which they were originally written.

Passage 7: Credit card fraud has reached £500 million despite the introduction of new controls. Figures show that losses to fraud rose by 20 per cent last year. Most frauds result from cards intercepted in the post. One hundred thousand cards were posted to customers every day last year. This represents rich pickings for fraudsters. The banks knew the year would be difficult because it was thought that fraudsters would try to commit as many crimes as possible before new controls were introduced. It is hoped that by this time next year the effect of the new measures will be known and that the level of fraud will have fallen considerably.
Statement: The new measures are sophisticated anti-fraud strategies.

Find the new four-letter word from the end of one given word and the beginning of the next.

Complete the analogy by choosing the opposite. Complicate is to clarify as: busy is to

Rearrange the sentences into the order in which they were originally written.

Passage 5: In tropical rainforests the climate remains hot and damp all year round. In the Arctic it is cold all year, and in high mountain ranges the climate is much colder than in nearby low-lying lands. Climate is not the same as weather. The weather can change quickly whereas climate describes likely weather conditions over a much longer period. The world is divided into five climate zones. Polar is the only zone where it is always cold; tropical is hot all year round; temperate has warm summers and cold winters; desert is dry and cool; forest has cool, short summers. Mankind can affect climate (e.g., forest fires that obscure the sun; more recently, pollution has affected climate via the greenhouse effect).
Statement: In deserts the winter is cooler than the summer.

Find the new four-letter word from the end of one given word and the beginning of the next.

Passage 1: Light is made up of electromagnetic waves. These vary in length and these differences are perceived as different colours. White light contains all wavelengths mixed together. An object looks coloured because light falls on it and it reflects only certain parts of the spectrum while the rest is absorbed. An object that looks white reflects all the light that falls on it; an object that looks red reflects the red part of the spectrum and absorbs the rest. Our eyes detect these different reflected waves and we see them as different colours.
Statement: Without colours we would consider the world a dull and less beautiful place.

How many adjectives are in the sentence? Type the number.

Find the new four-letter word from the end of one given word and the beginning of the next.

Maclenas, the London insurer, was on ___ to meet full-year expectations ___ future performance underpinned by its successful new savings product.

Find the new four-letter word from the end of one given word and the beginning of the next.

Complete the analogy by choosing the opposite. Impromptu is to rehearsed as: audit is to

Find the new four-letter word from the end of one given word and the beginning of the next.

Passage 7: Credit card fraud has reached £500 million despite the introduction of new controls. Figures show that losses to fraud rose by 20 per cent last year. Most frauds result from cards intercepted in the post. One hundred thousand cards were posted to customers every day last year. This represents rich pickings for fraudsters. The banks knew the year would be difficult because it was thought that fraudsters would try to commit as many crimes as possible before new controls were introduced. It is hoped that by this time next year the effect of the new measures will be known and that the level of fraud will have fallen considerably.
Statement: Credit card fraud committed as a result of cards intercepted through the post has reached £500 million.

Complete the sentence by choosing the correct words for blanks A and B.

Choose two words—one from each list—that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection. Manufacture is to production as: lease is to

Choose the correct word(s) from the lists to complete the sentence.

Passage 8: The ambulance service estimates that as many as 500 lives are lost each year because of slower emergency response times caused by road humps. Some claim that road humps, or sleeping policemen, cost more lives than are saved as a result of slowed traffic. Critics of road humps also claim that they cause more pollution as drivers repeatedly slow down and speed up and that they cause more congestion by disrupting the flow of traffic. Residents complain of the noise of cars crossing them and accelerating away from them. Some of these claims run counter to published research which shows that road humps cause average speeds to drop by 10 mph and as a result save lives. Since 1980 and the widespread introduction of road humps, figures show that the level of deaths and serious injury fell by 60 per cent.
Statement: It is fair to say that road humps can save lives and injuries but at a price.

Choose the correct word(s) from the lists to complete the sentence.

Find the new four-letter word from the end of one given word and the beginning of the next.

Manufacturing growth ___ the Eurozone dwindled to its lowest level in 12 months as a result of high oil prices and a ___ global economy.

Choose two words, one from each list, that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection.

Choose two words, one from each list, that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection.

Choose the correct sentence or word(s) according to standard English usage. Options are lettered A, B, C.

Identify the word that means the opposite of the given word. Scornful

The ___ fits with the practice of mining a diversified set of related revenue seams, hopefully giving the business a broader and more solid ___ which to build profits.

Passage 13: In the past 12 months benefit fraud has fallen by £½ billion to its lowest level for over a decade. The fall is equivalent to a 25 per cent drop to 1.5 per cent of the total £100 billion benefit bill. This spectacular fall follows permission for the benefit office to access Inland Revenue taxation data. Benefit officers can now immediately check to see if a claimant is working and claiming benefits intended only for those out of work. This new measure has led to over 80,000 people being caught making false claims. A similar initiative has also succeeded in a substantial cut in the level of fraud committed by claimants of housing benefit. Local authorities are responsible for the administration of this allowance, which is awarded to the unemployed and low paid to help with housing costs. Until recently local authority staff had been unable to access central government records to check the information provided by claimants. These checks have so far identified 44,000 claimants who have provided false information in order to make claims for allowances for which they are not eligible.
Statement: Ten years ago the level of benefit fraud was higher.

Find the new four-letter word from the end of one given word and the beginning of the next.

Passage 6: The theory goes that everything around us is built up of tiny particles called atoms. Some materials are made up of only one type of atom; these are called elements. Others are made up of different sorts of atom bonded together into molecules. Water, for example, is a compound made up of molecules that contain two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. The force which holds atoms together is called bonds. Atoms are made up of even smaller particles such as neutrons, electrons and protons. Neutrons and protons are made up of quarks and gluons. The search is on for the particles that make up quarks.
Statement: A molecule is a cluster of atoms held together by bonds.

Rearrange the sentences into the order in which they were originally written.

Find the new four-letter word from the end of one given word and the beginning of the next.

Rearrange the sentences into the order in which they were originally written.

Find the new four-letter word from the end of one given word and the beginning of the next.

Swap two words so that the sentence reads sensibly.

Passage 10: Recent changes to the postal voting system are considered by election officials to significantly increase the risk of electoral fraud. If it were to become widespread, such fraud could discredit the electoral process. Greatest concerns centre around the very limited time the new system allows electoral administrators to check that requests for postal ballots are genuine. The government is keen to increase the number of people who cast a vote and believe that people should not be denied a vote simply because they do not apply in good time. Fraud is currently rare and there is so far no evidence of postal votes leading to widespread fraud.
Statement: There is currently insufficient fraud to bring the electoral system into disrepute.

British firms have failed ___ implement government recommendations about investing in and managing their workforces because they have been busy ___ to unprecedented regulatory changes.

Passage 9: People assume that they go to hospital to get well. However, in the past few years this perception has been challenged by the real risk of acquiring a deadly infection while in hospital. As a consequence, public confidence in the health service has suffered. An antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria was first identified in the 1950s. It was a staphylococcus common in abscesses and bloodstream infections and it had become resistant to the antibiotic penicillin. Since then the bacteria have become resistant to a second antibiotic and have become established as a source of infection in many nursing homes and hospitals. Today they are believed to cause about 1,000 deaths each year as a result of hospital-acquired infections. Action that can beat this ‘superbug’ is simple but expensive: very high levels of hygiene and cleanliness and a programme of testing so that infected patients can be isolated and treated.
Statement: Staphylococcus became established as a source of infection in many nursing homes and hospitals in the 1950s.

Choose two words—one from each list—that are closest in meaning or have the strongest connection. Uphold is to sustain as: magnitude is to