Aptitude tests are used by companies to assess candidates' abilities relevant for job roles. They measure skills like problem-solving, reasoning, communication, and computer skills. Aptitude tests include questions on quantitative aptitude, logical reasoning, and verbal ability. They help companies evaluate candidates' abilities to learn, think logically, understand data, and solve problems. While technical knowledge is important, aptitude tests assess a candidate's potential to succeed based on their underlying skills and aptitudes. Regular practice and understanding different question types can help candidates perform better on aptitude tests.

1. APTITUDE TEST
By Dr. Neha Jain

2. Why do all companies use
aptitude tests?

3. “Aptitude is basically defined as an acquired ability of an individual to
perform certain tasks. It indicates the potential of the individual to perform
well in that specific job role.”
Studies have shown that overall the aptitude tests are quite accurate in predicting
the potential for success.
Technical or functional knowledge is not sufficient for success in a job role. Any job
requires multiple skills such as
strategising,
analysing,
planning,
reasoning,
comprehending,
communicating,
calculating,
computer skills etc.
Aptitude tests inculcate many factors like Numerical reasoning, verbal reasoning, abstract
reasoning, speed, accuracy, and other such abilities.

4. WHAT APTITUDE TESTS TELL
COMPANIES ABOUT A CANDIDATE

5. Aptitude test helps to judge about the
candidate
1. Ability to problem solve
2. The ability to analyze situations
3. The ability to reason
4. The ability to think logically
5. To take decisions based on data
6. To take decisions based on past trends
7. Ability to understand graphs, tables and charts
8. The ability to comprehend written and verbal communication
9. The ability to communicate well [verbal and written]
10. Language and Grammar skills
11.Basic numeric skills
12.Advanced quantitative skills
13.The ability to learn new things quickly
14.The ability to detect patterns and establish relationships
15.The ability to plan and strategise
16.The ability to comprehend complex issues
17.The ability to visualize
18.Basic Computer Skills
19.The ability to concentrate without getting distracted
20.The use of working memory
21.Attention to Detail

6. FAQ by students
• Is aptitude test in companies really necessary?
• Do all IT companies take an aptitude test?
• Why does a company conduct an aptitude test during
selection?
• Why the company takes aptitude test even though there
is no use in industry?
• How do I crack any company's aptitude test?
• How do I build my aptitude for aptitude test?

7. w do I crack any company's aptitude tes

8. Categories
• Quantitative
• Logical Reasoning
Verbal
Non verbal

9. Quantitative Aptitude
• Numbers,
• HCF and LCM,
• Simplifications,
• Surds and Indices,
• Chain Rule,
• Percentage: Increase,
• Average,
• Number Test,
• Profit and Loss
• Logarithm,
• Probability,
• Mixture,
• Ratio and Proportion
• Mathematical Operations
• Square root and cube root,

10. •Quantitative Aptitude
• Problems on Numbers,
•Permutation and Combination
•Area,
•Clock,
•Ages,
•Time and distance,
•Venn diagram,
•Calendars,
•Problems on Trains
•Speed, Distance, Time,
•Simple Interest
•Series,
•Height and Distance
•Set,
•Decimal fractions

11. Logical Reasoning
• Statement Arguments,
• Analytical Reasoning
• Statement Deduction,
• Theme Deduction,
• Non Verbal Reasoning,
• Mirror Image
• Series,
• Figure Formation Analysis,
• Data Interpretation,
• Geometry,
• Image Analysis

12. Logical Reasoning
• Direction and Distance Test,
• Analogy,
• Classification Tests
• Coding Decoding Tests,
• Series Test
• Alpha Numeric Symbol Tests,
• Alphabet Tests
• Odd man out series,
• Ranking Tests,
• Shape Construction
• Arithmetic Reasoning,
• Logics

13. Quantitative(Most Commonly Asked)
1. Number series
2. Percentage
3. Profit & loss
4. Simple & compound interest
5. Average
6. Ratio & proportion
7. Problem based on age
8. Speed distance time
9. Mixture & Allegation
10.Permutation & Combination

14. Logical reasoning(Most Commonly Asked)
Verbal & Non Verbal
1. Number series
2. Analogies
3. Statement & Assumption
4. Statement & conclusion
5. Letter & Symbol series
6. Data Interpretation

15. Few Things to remember
• Concentration
• Concepts
• Practice
• Maximum Use of Brain
• Construct Structure

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17. Can you SOLVE this?

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19. Puzzle??

20. Spot the difference ??

21. Number series
• Which one of the following is not a prime number?
A.31 B.61 C.71 D.91
• (112 x 54) = ?
A.67000 B.70000 C.76500 D.77200
• What least number must be added to 1056, so that the
sum is completely divisible by 23 ?
A.2 B.3 C.18 D.21 E.None of these

22. Number Series
1397 x 1397 = ?
• A.1951609
• B.1981709
• C.18362619
• D.2031719
• E.None of these

23. Continued………
• 1397 x 1397= (1397)2
= (1400 - 3)2
= (1400)2 + (3)2 - (2 x 1400 x 3)
= 1960000 + 9 – 8400
= 1960009 – 8400
= 1951609.

24. Number Series
The largest 4 digit number exactly divisible by 88
is:
A.9944
B.9768
C.9988
D.8888
E.None of these

25. Number Series
Largest 4-digit number = 9999
88) 9999 (113
88
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119
88
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319
264
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55
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Required number = (9999 - 55) = 9944.

26. Number Series
What is the unit digit in
{(6374)1793 x (625)317 x (341491)}?
• A.0
• B.2
• C.3
• D.5

27. Number Series
Unit digit in (6374)1793
= Unit digit in (4)1793
= Unit digit in [(42)896 x 4]
= Unit digit in (6 x 4)
= 4
Unit digit in (625)317
= Unit digit in (5)317
= 5
Unit digit in (341)491
= Unit digit in (1)491
= 1
Required digit = Unit digit in (4 x 5 x 1) = 0.

28. Percentage
A batsman scored 110 runs which included 3
boundaries and 8 sixes. What percent of his total
score did he make by running between the wickets?
A.45%
B.45(5/11)%
C.54(6/11)%
D.55%

29. Percentage
• Two students appeared at an examination. One of
them secured 9 marks more than the other and
his marks was 56% of the sum of their marks. The
marks obtained by them are:
• A.39, 30
• B.41, 32
• C.42, 33
• D.43, 34

30. Percentage
Let their marks be (x + 9) and x.
Then, x + 9 =56/100[(x + 9 + x)]
25(x + 9) = 14(2x + 9)
3x = 99
x = 33
So, their marks are 42 and 33.

31. Percentage
A fruit seller had some apples. He sells 40% apples
and still has 420 apples. Originally, he had:
A.588 apples
B.600 apples
C.672 apples
D.700 apples

32. Percentage
Suppose originally he had x apples.
Then, (100 - 40)% of x = 420.
[60/100] x = 420
x =[420 x 100]/60
X = 700.

33. Percentage
If A = x% of y and B = y% of x, then which of the
following is true?
A.A is smaller than B.
B.A is greater than B
C.Relationship between A and B cannot be
determined.
D.If x is smaller than y, then A is greater than B.
E.None of these

34. Percentage
If 20% of a = b, then b% of 20 is the same as:
A.4% of a
B.5% of a
C.20% of a
D.None of these

35. Percentage
20% of a = b
20a/100 = b
Now
b% of 20 = b20/100
=20a/100 x 20/100
=4a/100
= 4% of a.

36. Percentage
A student multiplied a number by 3/5 instead of 5/3
What is the percentage error in the calculation?
A.34%
B.44%
C.54%
D.64%

37. Percentage
Let the number be x.
Then, error =5x/3 -3x/5 =16x/15
Error% =(16x/15)*(3/5x )*100%
= 64%.

38. Profit & loss
Cost Price:
The price, at which an article is purchased, is called its cost price, abbreviated as C.P.
Selling Price:
The price, at which an article is sold, is called its selling prices, abbreviated as S.P.
Profit or Gain:
If S.P. is greater than C.P., the seller is said to have a profit or gain.
Loss:
If S.P. is less than C.P., the seller is said to have incurred a loss.

39. Profit & Loss
IMPORTANT FORMULAE
1. Gain = (S.P.) - (C.P.)
2. Loss = (C.P.) - (S.P.)
3. Loss or gain is always reckoned on C.P.
Gain Percentage: (Gain %)
Gain % =(Gain x 100)/C.P.
Loss Percentage: (Loss %)
Loss % =(Loss x 100)/C.P.

40. Profit & loss
4. Selling Price: (S.P.)
SP =[(100 + Gain %)x C.P]/100
5. Selling Price: (S.P.)
SP =[(100 - Loss %)x C.P.]/100
6. Cost Price: (C.P.)
C.P. =[100x S.P.]/(100 + Gain %)
7. Cost Price: (C.P.)
C.P. =[100x S.P.]/(100 - Loss %)
8. If an article is sold at a gain of say 35%, then S.P. = 135% of C.P.
9. If an article is sold at a loss of say, 35% then S.P. = 65% of C.P.

41. Profit & loss
Alfred buys an old scooter for Rs. 4700 and
spends Rs. 800 on its repairs. If he sells the
scooter for Rs. 5800, his gain percent is:
• A.4(4/7)%
• B.5(5/11)%
• C.10%
• D.12%

42. Profit & loss
Cost Price (C.P.) = Rs. (4700 + 800) = Rs. 5500.
Selling Price (S.P.) = Rs. 5800.
Gain = (S.P.) - (C.P.) = Rs.(5800 - 5500) = Rs. 300.
Gain % =(300/5500)x 100%= 5(5/11)%

43. Profit & loss
The cost price of 20 articles is the same as the
selling price of x articles. If the profit is 25%,
then the value of x is:
A.15
B.16
C.18
D.25

44. Profit & loss
Let C.P. of each article be Re. 1
C.P. of x articles = Rs. x.
S.P. of x articles = Rs. 20.
Profit = Rs. (20 - x).
Profit (%) [(20 - x)/x] 100 = 25
2000 - 100x = 25x
125x = 2000
x = 16.

45. Profit & loss
A vendor bought toffees at 6 for a rupee. How
many for a rupee must he sell to gain 20%?
A.3
B.4
C.5
D.6

46. Profit & loss
C.P. of 6 toffees = Re. 1
S.P. of 6 toffees = 120% of Re. 1 = Rs.6/5
For Rs.6/5, toffees sold = 6
For Re. 1, toffees sold =6 x5/6= 5.

47. Profit & loss
A shopkeeper expects a gain of 22.5% on his cost
price. If in a week, his sale was of Rs. 392, what
was his profit?
A.Rs. 18.20
B.Rs. 70
C.Rs. 72
D.Rs. 88.25

48. Profit & loss
C.P. = Rs.[100/122.5]x 392
= Rs.[1000/1225]x 392
= Rs. 320
Profit = Rs. (392 - 320)
= Rs. 72.

49. PUZZLE TEST

50. 1.
What has four fingers and a thumb,
But not a living?

51. 2.
I have keys but no locks. I have space
but no room. You can enter, but can’t
go outside. what am I?

52. 3.
I can only live where there is a light,
but I die if light shines on me. What am
I?

53. 4.
What flies when it’s born, lies when it’s
Alive, and run when its dead?

54. 5.
Every night I am told what to do, and
each morning I do what I told. But I still
don’t escape your scold.

55. 6.
I am lighter than air but a million men
cannot lift me up. What am I?

56. 7.
I am a mother and a father, but have
never given birth. i’m rarely still, but I
never wander. What am I?

57. 8.
We hurt without moving. We poison
without touching.we bear the truth
and the lies. We are not to be judged
by our size. What are we?

58. 9.
Remove Six letters from this sequence
to reveal a familiar English word.
BSAINXLEATNTEARS

59. 10.
A gorilla has more hairs than chimpanzee.
This is the reason why they lay on their side
to keep themselves warm during winters!
Do you know which side of these creatures
have more hairs?

60. Answers
• 1. A Glove
• 2. A keyboard
• 3. A shadow
• 4. A snow flake
• 5. A alarm clock
• 6. Bubble
• 7. A Tree
• 8. Words
• 9. Banana
• 10. Outside.

61. MEMORY TEST

115. Start Writing
Time Start Now

116. Logical Reasoning Test
Total Questions : 30
Time: 30min.