SHL-style numerical, verbal, and logical tests: what to expect
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SHL Numerical Reasoning
18 questions in 25 minutes. Each question shows a data table or chart and asks you to calculate something — percentage change, ratio, weighted average, or comparison. The data is always sufficient; there are no “Cannot Say” options in numerical.
Growth = (14.88 − 12.4) / 12.4 = 2.48 / 12.4 = 20%.
SHL loves clean percentage answers. If your result is something like 19.73%, re-check your arithmetic.
SHL Verbal Reasoning
30 questions in 19 minutes. Each item gives a short passage and a statement. You choose True, False, or Cannot Say. “Cannot Say” means the passage doesn’t contain enough information — not that you personally don’t know.
Cannot Say. More complaints don’t necessarily mean lower satisfaction — the company may have grown its customer base, or changed how complaints are counted.
SHL Logical (Inductive) Reasoning
24 questions in 25 minutes. You see a sequence of shapes and must identify the rule governing the pattern — rotation, reflection, element count, shading progression, or position shifts. The last item in the sequence is missing and you pick it from five options.
Timing strategy
SHL tests are fixed-length: every candidate gets the same number of questions. Unanswered questions score zero, so never leave blanks. If you have 30 seconds left and three unanswered questions, guess — a 20% chance beats 0%.
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