This document provides information and sample questions to help prepare for the British Army selection tests. It describes 5 types of tests: error checking, spatial awareness, reasoning, word association, and numerical. For each test section, it explains the task and provides 2-3 practice questions along with explanations of the answers. The full practice tests are meant to familiarize candidates with the skills and format of questions on the official assessment.

1. How To Pass the British
Army Selection Tests
Sample test questions, answers and
explanations
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2. NEW ARMY SELECTION TEST
o Error Checking Test
o Spatial Awareness Test
o Reasoning Test
o Word Association Test
o Numerical Test

3. ERROR
CHECKING
How To Pass the British
Army Selection Tests
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4. ARMY ERROR CHECKING TEST
During this section of the Army test, you need to identify
how many letters/ digits are different.
This test will be conducted on a computer, and therefore your
questions will look somewhat different to the practice questions
in this video.
Although your real assessment will be conducted on a
computer, these practice questions can still be used to
practice the skills required.

5. Once you have spotted how many letters/digits
are different, you would then move on to the next
screen.

6. As you can see, the letters and digits have disappeared from your screen. You
now have to select your answer by clicking on the number of correct different
letters and/or digits. In the above example, there are four letters/digits that are
different in the top line compared to that in the bottom. Therefore, the correct
answer to this question would be 4.

7. 1
0
Q1.
Q2.

8. TIMER
Put your answers to
questions 3 and 4 in
the comments
section below the
video.
Q3.
Q4.

9. 2
Q5.

10. TIMER
Put your answer to
question 6 in the
comments section
below the video.
Q6.

11. SPATIAL
AWARENESS
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Army Selection Tests
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12. THE ARMY SPATIAL AWARENESS
ASSESSMENT TEST
During this section of the test, you need to be able to
demonstrate strong logical and spatial awareness.
This test is fairly straightforward:
You will be provided with a set of rules that look
something like this:
Rule 1 = Down Left BELOW Down Right
Rule 2 = Black ABOVE Striped
You will then be given six different answer options. Your task is to
work out which answer option obeys both of the rules provided.

13. Rule 1 = Down
Left BELOW
Down Right
Rule 2 = Black
ABOVE
Striped
The rule "down left below down right" means one of the shapes is positioned at the
bottom pointing left, and the other shape is positioned at the top pointing right.
Using the second rule, the black shape needs to be positioned above the striped shape.

16. TIMER

17. TIMER
Put your answer to
question 2 in the
comments section
below the video.

18. NG
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Army Selection Tests
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19. Car faster than Bike
Bike faster than Running
What is the slowest?
When you click the button on the screen, the above text will
disappear and three buttons will now appear:
ARMY REASONING TEST
Car Running Bike

20. Another example:
Red car further than brown car
Blue car further than red car
Which car is nearest?
Red Brown Blue

21. REASONING TEST QUESTION 1
5 lighter than 4
3 heavier than 4
Which is the lightest?
3 4 5
TIMER

22. REASONING TEST QUESTION 2
Bill is thinner than Janice
Ahmed is thinner than Bill
Who is the thinnest?
Bill Janice Ahmed
TIMER

23. WORD
ASSOCIATION
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24. Bird / Bird / Vehicle
You will hit the “NEXT" button and the above 3 words will disappear.
You'll then be shown three specific items. Here’s an example:
Crow / Eagle / Train
You will hit the “NEXT" button and be presented with buttons ranging from 0 to 3.
WORD ASSOCIATION TEST
0 1 2 3

25. Transport / Fish / Aircraft
You will hit the “NEXT" button and the above 3 words will disappear.
You'll then be shown three specific items. Here’s an example:
Van / Ship / Plane
You will hit the “NEXT" button and be presented with buttons ranging from 0 to 3.
WORD ASSOCIATION TEST
0 1 2 3

26. Transport / Fish / Fish
WORD ASSOCIATION TEST
0 1 2 3
Hake / Cod / Train
Q1.

27. Sport / Bird / Transport
WORD ASSOCIATION TEST
0 1 2 3
Tennis / Car / Bicycle
Q2.

28. CAL
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29. 9 + 38
NUMERICAL TEST
1 2 EQUAL
8 x 6
1
2
47
48

30. 5 x 15
NUMERICAL TEST
1 2 EQUAL
100 - 25
1
2
75
75

31. 4 x 18
NUMERICAL TEST
1 2 EQUAL
101 x 31
1
2
Q.1

32. 30 / 3
NUMERICAL TEST
1 2 EQUAL
200 / 20
1
2
Q.2

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