Aptitude test questions

Shicky · 12 Dec 2010 at 13:45

Looking for a resource to practice these types of questions, even a quick method of solving them if someone would like to reveal:

Colour toner increases from $33 to $35, black and white $28 to $29. If a company spends $1540 and 3/5s is on colour then how much is total expenditure increase after the price hike?

Printer A prints 8192chars per minute, printer B 13862chars. 4 chars are equal to one word. Printer A starts at 7:15am, printer B starts at 7:29am, at what time will both have printed the same number of words?

I can solve them just fine but my methods are far too length, theres 15 of these style questions to answer in 15minutes, at my current rate i'd be getting 10/11 if I get the odd simple question I fly through

*Yes i've exhausted SHLDirect etc, these questions are not the same. No graph/data work, just straight calculations

crisbduck · 12 Dec 2010 at 14:04

First one 1540/5 x 3 / 33 gives number of colour cartridges, same for black and white and times by new prices?

Nitefly · 12 Dec 2010 at 14:09

You might have more luck if you search for 'competency questions', of which many are mathematical.

Ev0 · 12 Dec 2010 at 18:13

Shicky said:
I can solve them just fine but my methods are far too length, theres 15 of these style questions to answer in 15minutes, at my current rate i'd be getting 10/11 if I get the odd simple question I fly through

A lot of these tests don't expect you to finish and answer all the questions so dont' worry too much about that.

Just try as many as you can

weringo · 12 Dec 2010 at 18:22

A lot of company's use actual tests from here I believe

http://www.shldirect.com/practice_tests.html

Shicky · 12 Dec 2010 at 18:42

weringo said:
A lot of company's use actual tests from here I believe

http://www.shldirect.com/practice_tests.html

Reading my post would have been nice, thanks anyway though, these tests were a good bit different from the likes on SHL unfortunately which made preparation a bit harder