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Aon cut-e scales tests: what they ask and how to practise
Employers that use Aon's assessments (the cut-e "scales" tests) often send short, strictly timed reasoning tests: you get a fixed number of minutes and are told to finish as many tasks as you can. Aon publishes a candidate guide listing each test, its length and what you do. This page sets out what it says and which practice fits.
The tests, as Aon describes them
| Numerical reasoning (scales numerical) | 12 minutes, 37 tasks, finish as many as you can. Decide whether a statement is true and accurate, based on numerical data |
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| Verbal reasoning (scales verbal) | 12 minutes, 49 tasks, finish as many as you can. Decide whether a statement is true and accurate, based on verbal information |
| Inductive reasoning (scales ix) | 5 minutes, 20 tasks. Work out the common rule in a pattern and select the item, from a series of 9, that does not fit it |
| Inductive logical reasoning (scales clx) | 6 minutes, finish as many tasks as you can. Look at a group of items, observe patterns and relationships, and draw logical conclusions |
| Basic numerical comprehension (scales eql) | 5 minutes, finish as many tasks as you can. Basic arithmetic by mental calculation |
What Aon says about taking them
- "Try to answer the questions quickly but carefully." Aon adds that you should not try to work faster than you did at school or in your studies, because incorrect answers generally have a negative effect on the results.
- On performance tests, points are usually added for each correct answer and deducted for each incorrect one. So a blind guess can cost you.
- You usually need only a computer with a browser. For some tests a calculator or pen and paper is useful, so check your invitation.
- Once a test starts you cannot interrupt it. Most individual tests last under fifteen minutes, and you usually have several days to finish all of them.
- Aon recommends a PC, laptop or notebook rather than a phone.
What to practise, and where
- Numerical reasoning: data tables, charts and percentages and ratios.
- Verbal reasoning: passages, where you judge a statement against the text. The verbal guide covers the traps.
- Inductive reasoning: odd one out and matrices, which both practise finding the common rule in a set.
- Basic numerical comprehension: timed mental arithmetic.
Every practice question here is generated and checked to have exactly one right answer, and none is copied from an Aon test. preplaud's tracks are not laid out like Aon's tasks, so this practises the reasoning rather than the screens. Because wrong answers can lose points, practise deciding when to answer and when to move on.
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Practice here is free up to level 3, with 15 new questions a day on a free account and no account needed to try.
Other pages: numerical reasoning, abstract and inductive reasoning.
Sources
- Aon: Prepare for your online assessment (every test, length and task figure above, and the advice on speed, wrong answers and materials)