For graduate scheme and internship applicants
Don't face your first aptitude test cold.
Don't meet the format for the first time on test day. Your application went in and the online assessment invite has arrived. Before you click the link, get a feel for the question types and the clock.
iPhone, iPad and any web browser. Questions, explanations and screens are in English. No account needed.
Sound familiar?
Where you might be right now
- Your application has gone in and an online assessment invite has landed in your inbox
- You have never seen numerical, verbal or shape-sequence questions against the clock
- The deadline is in a few days and you are juggling coursework and other applications
- You are applying to several employers and each one seems to use a different test
Inside the app
See what you'll practise
Real screens from ACE-Test. Every question has a clock, a two-step hint and a worked explanation.
- 870
- original practice questions written for online aptitude tests
- 253
- of them with charts, tables, grids or figures
- 7
- general aptitude sections, from abstract reasoning to data interpretation
- 3
- graduate-recruitment formats: critical thinking, situational judgement and verbal true/false/cannot say
Start free
Start free. No account needed.
Everyone gets these, with no time limit. Premium is for when you want to practise as much as you like.
A 5-question diagnostic
Five test-level questions on one clock, with no easy warm-ups mixed in. See your first result and the formats that trip you up. Free, as often as you like.
3 practice questions a day
Pick any section, including the graduate formats. Every question you answer comes with hints and a step-by-step explanation.
Your mistakes, explained
Explanations for the questions you got wrong are never locked behind a paywall. See exactly where your method broke.
The eve-of-test review
The key points to look at the night before, plus the questions you missed in the last 14 days, on one screen.
Your plan
How long until your test?
Choose the time you have left. Every plan includes steps you can do for free. Where a step needs Premium, it says so, with a free alternative.
1. Week 1
Take the 5-question diagnostic to see which formats trip you up. Build the habit of 3 questions a day.
2. Week 2
Focus on numerical and abstract questions. Notice how long each one takes you.
3. Week 3
Add verbal and logical questions. Reread the explanation for every one you miss.
4. Week 4
Free: keep to 3 timed questions a day and review your mistakes. Premium: sit full timed mock tests until the pacing feels normal.
Pricing
Free to start. Premium when you want more.
Select your App Store country to see the price. If your country is not listed, the App Store shows your local price before you buy.
Free
£0
No account, no time limit
- 5-question diagnostic
- 3 practice questions a day
- Your mistakes explained
- Eve-of-test review
Weekly Premium
£4.99 a week
Renews automatically every week until you cancel
Lifetime Access
£19.99 once
One-off payment. No subscription, no expiry
Both Premium options unlock the same features: all 870 questions with no daily limit, timed mock tests, spaced repetition and a plan paced to your test date.
You can upgrade inside the app at any time, or in your browser with the same prices. Prices in other countries are shown in your local App Store.
- Weekly Premium renews automatically each week until you cancel. In the App Store, cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current week to avoid the next charge. If you bought in your browser, cancel any time from the Manage subscription link in the web app or your receipt email; Premium stays on until the end of the week you paid for.
- Lifetime Access is a single payment that unlocks the same Premium features with no expiry.
- If you expect to practise for four weeks or more, Lifetime Access costs less than paying weekly.
- ACE-Test runs as an iPhone and iPad app and in any web browser, so Android users can practise in the browser version now. The Android app is coming to Google Play.
- App Store purchases are refunded through Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.
- Web purchases are processed by RevenueCat with payment by Stripe. Prices are the same as in the App Store.
- Premium bought in your browser works in any browser where you sign in with the same email. It does not yet unlock the iPhone and iPad app, and App Store purchases do not yet unlock the web app.
How results are used
How employers use these tests
Every organisation runs its own process. This is how tests are commonly used, not a description of any particular employer.
An early filter before interviews
Graduate recruiters with large numbers of applicants often use online tests early in the process, alongside or soon after the application form. Candidates who reach the employer's benchmark move on to video interviews or assessment centres. Benchmarks are set by each employer and are rarely published.
One input among several
Test results are usually weighed with your application, interviews and assessment centre exercises rather than deciding everything on their own.
Usually taken at home, against a deadline
Most tests are taken online from a link in the invitation email, within a window of a few days. Some time each question, others time the whole section.
From our founder's coaching sessions
Advice he gives the people he coaches
If it's a yes-or-no question, start with yes or no. 'Partly yes' is fine too. Then explain. Long answers to closed questions are one of the quickest ways to have an interview cut short.
Answer only what you were asked, and briefly restate the question first so the interviewer knows you caught it. When you introduce yourself, say 'I have three strengths' before you list them. It gives the interviewer boxes to file everything else in.
Your opening statement shouldn't say what you want from the job. It should say what the employer gets by hiring you. If a recruiter has three questions after your first line, they often stop reading.
Drawn from recorded one-to-one career coaching sessions by Takayoshi Watanabe. Details have been removed to protect the people he coached.
Know the test
What online aptitude tests measure
Employers combine these question types in different ways, and each publisher's test looks a little different. These are the families you are most likely to meet.
Numerical reasoning
Reading tables and charts, picking the numbers that matter and working out percentages, ratios and change. A calculator is often allowed, so the real test is spotting which figures to use, fast.
Verbal reasoning
Reading a short passage and deciding whether a statement is true, false or cannot be said. You judge only on what the passage says, not on what you happen to know.
Abstract and inductive reasoning
Finding the rule in a sequence or grid of shapes and choosing what comes next. There are almost no words, so it rewards a method for hunting rules more than language skill.
Logical and deductive reasoning
Drawing only the conclusions that must follow from the facts given: ordering, matching and combining conditions.
Critical thinking
Spotting assumptions, judging whether an inference holds and weighing the strength of arguments. Common in graduate and professional services recruitment.
Situational judgement
Reading a workplace scenario and rating how effective each response is. The right answer depends on the behaviours the employer is looking for.
The myth
"You can't prepare for these tests." Half true.
Practice will not transform your underlying reasoning ability overnight, and no honest app should promise that it will.
But some lost marks may have less to do with the abilities a test is meant to measure than with the conditions around it. Meeting a question type for the first time and burning a minute working out what it wants. Misjudging the clock and leaving the last questions blank. Nerves knocking out the method you normally use.
Those are preparation problems, and preparation is something you can do.
Familiarity
If you have seen the format before, you spend your time answering, not decoding instructions.
Speed
You learn what a minute per question feels like, and when to move on rather than dig in.
Nerves
Knowing you have done the work makes it easier to stay with your method under pressure.
Free checklist
Your test-day checklist
Useful whether or not you use ACE-Test.
As soon as the invite arrives
- If a disability or health condition affects how you take timed tests, ask the employer about reasonable adjustments as early as you can, before you start the test.
- If the invitation links to a practice test from the test publisher, take it. It is the best way to see the real screens and controls.
- Check whether your university careers service or employer offers free practice tests too, and use them alongside ACE-Test.
The day before
- Reread the invitation email. Check the deadline, the time zone and the test link.
- Check your device and browser against the employer's technical requirements.
- Find out whether a calculator and rough paper are allowed, and have them ready if so.
- Open the eve-of-test review in ACE-Test: the key points and the questions you missed in the last 14 days.
- Do not start new topics. Get a proper night's sleep.
On the day
- Turn off notifications and book a quiet slot where nobody will interrupt you.
- Check your battery and connection. Plug in a laptop if you can.
- Read the instructions screen carefully, especially how the time limit works.
- Do not get stuck. If a question is eating your time, pick your best answer and move on.
- Follow the instructions on guessing. Whether wrong answers cost marks depends on the test.
Our story
Why ACE-Test exists
Takayoshi Watanabe
Founder, RUOK LLC
- Head of Business Unit, Amazon
- Director, Salesforce
- Passed Country Head assessment, Bayer
- Passed Country Head assessment, Takeda
- Passed management assessment
Former roles and assessments; no affiliation with or endorsement by these companies.
I sat aptitude tests at promotion after promotion at global companies. People said you couldn't prepare for them. The results still counted.
I came to disagree with part of that advice. Practice won't change what a test measures. But you can get to know the question types, get used to working against the clock and learn from your mistakes, so that an unfamiliar format is not what decides the day. Read the full story
Free guides
Guides for every step before the offer
How global companies hire, step by step
A plain-English walk through the hiring process at large global employers: application and ATS screening, online assessments, video interviews, assessment centres, final interviews and offers. Typical timelines, what each stage screens for, the UK and Australian graduate calendar, and how experienced and internal hiring differ.
Read the guide
How to structure a CV or resume that gets read
How to build a CV that applicant tracking systems can read and recruiters can scan in seconds: layout, section order, the action + metric + result formula for bullets, UK and Australian CV versus US resume conventions, and cover letter basics.
Read the guide
CV advice by job family
What recruiters scan for in CVs for software engineering, data and analytics, finance and accounting, consulting, marketing, sales, operations and supply chain, HR, and graduate roles with no experience. Key sections, example bullet structures and common mistakes.
Read the guide
Using AI well, and honestly, in your job search
Practical, honest ways to use AI assistants in a job search: tailoring a CV to a job description, drafting STAR interview answers, mock interviews and company research, with example prompts. Plus what not to do, including fabricating experience and using AI during assessments.
Read the guide
What Google's careers site says about resumes
A short, sourced summary of the resume advice Google publishes on its own careers site, including the 'accomplished X as measured by Y, by doing Z' formula, and how to apply it to any application.
Read the guide
Build a stronger CV by talking it through with an AI voice assistant
A step-by-step workflow for using an AI voice assistant to interview you about each role, draw out achievements and numbers, turn them into X-Y-Z and STAR bullets, tailor them to a job description and finish with a mock recruiter screen. Copy-paste prompts included.
Read the guide
Free aptitude test preparation resources for students and careers advisers
A page careers advisers and L&D teams can share: common reasoning and judgement test formats, what to check before an assessment, reasonable adjustments, where to find free practice, and what ACE-Test does and does not offer for free.
Read the guide
FAQ
Questions people ask
When should I start practising for graduate aptitude tests?
Ideally before the invitations arrive, because the window to complete a test is often only a few days. Even 3 questions a day for a couple of weeks means the formats will not be new to you on the day.
Do I need to know which test the employer uses?
It helps. The invitation email or test page usually tells you, and most test publishers offer free practice pages for candidates. Use those to check the screens, and use ACE-Test to build familiarity and speed across the common question types.
Are the graduate formats in ACE-Test based on UK recruitment?
ACE-Test includes practice in critical thinking, situational judgement and verbal true/false/cannot say, the formats widely used in UK graduate and professional services recruitment. They are original practice questions, not copies of any publisher's test.
Does it help with internship and placement applications too?
Yes. Internships, placements and graduate programs often use the same kinds of online tests as graduate schemes.
What can I use for free?
The 5-question diagnostic, up to 3 practice questions a day, explanations of the questions you got wrong and the eve-of-test review are free for everyone, with no account and no time limit. Premium adds unlimited practice, timed mock tests, spaced repetition and a plan paced to your test date.
Will practice guarantee a higher score?
No one can honestly guarantee that. Practice does not change your underlying ability overnight. What it can change is familiarity with the formats, your sense of timing and how calm you are, which are the things that cost people marks they should have had.
Are these the real test questions?
No. All questions are original practice material written by our team. ACE-Test does not reproduce any real test's questions, screens or scoring and is not affiliated with any test publisher or employer.
Don't face your first aptitude test cold.
Practise the questions. Understand your mistakes. Walk in prepared.
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ACE-Test questions are original practice material written by our team. They do not reproduce any real test's questions, screens or scoring, and ACE-Test is not affiliated with or endorsed by any test publisher or employer.
