Test Duration
~ 45 mins
Difficulty Level
Moderate
Questions
- ~ 20 MCQs
Availability
Available on request
About the test:
The cognitive ability test assesses a candidate's general intelligence- ability to think abstractly, understand complex ideas, draw logical conclusions and learn quickly. Research has shown that cognitive ability is the strongest predictor of job performance for all employment levels across industries.
Covered skills:
Test Duration
~ 45 mins
Difficulty Level
Moderate
Questions
Availability
Available on request
Cognitive ability is said to explain, on average, a whopping 42% of job performance. In the correct hands, this kind of predictive power will make hitting talent jackpot a regular thing in both promotion and hiring decisions.
In most cognitive ability assessments like predictive index, it only takes 12 minutes. These 12 minutes provide you more information about someone’s likelihood of success than a 1-hour interview.
The core of cognitive ability’s relationship with job performance is rapid knowledge absorption. Usually, people with higher cognitive scores are those who outperform others because of their ability to quickly absorb all of the incoming information and knowledge. In other words, they acquire new skills quickly and they figure things out fast, which translates into greater performance gains.
Traditional assessment tools use trick questions and puzzles for the screening, which creates a lot of frustration among candidates about having to go through irrelevant screening assessments.
The main reason we started Adaface is that traditional pre-employment assessment platforms are not a fair way for companies to evaluate candidates. At Adaface, our mission is to help companies find great candidates by assessing on-the-job skills required for a role.
Why we started Adaface ->We have a very high focus on the quality of questions that test for on-the-job skills. Every question is non-googleable and we have a very high bar for the level of subject matter experts we onboard to create these questions. We have crawlers to check if any of the questions are leaked online. If/ when a question gets leaked, we get an alert. We change the question for you & let you know.
These are just a small sample from our library of 10,000+ questions. The actual questions on this Cognitive Ability Test will be non-googleable.
🧐 Question | |||||
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Medium Increasing monthly gross profit | Solve | ||||
Medium Magic bag | Solve | ||||
Medium Three Clocks | Solve | ||||
Hard Assemble Triangle | Solve | ||||
Easy Odd One Out | Solve | ||||
Medium Four Blocks | Solve | ||||
Medium Missing element | Solve | ||||
Hard Missing element | Solve | ||||
🧐 Question | 🔧 Skill | ||
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Medium Increasing monthly gross profit | 2 mins Numerical Reasoning | Solve | |
Medium Magic bag | 3 mins Numerical Reasoning | Solve | |
Medium Three Clocks | 3 mins Numerical Reasoning | Solve | |
Hard Assemble Triangle | 2 mins Spatial Reasoning | Solve | |
Easy Odd One Out | 2 mins Spatial Reasoning | Solve | |
Medium Four Blocks | 2 mins Spatial Reasoning | Solve | |
Medium Missing element | 2 mins Ravens Progressive Matrices | Solve | |
Hard Missing element | 2 mins Ravens Progressive Matrices | Solve |
🧐 Question | 🔧 Skill | 💪 Difficulty | ⌛ Time | ||
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Increasing monthly gross profit | Numerical Reasoning | Medium | 2 mins | Solve | |
Magic bag | Numerical Reasoning | Medium | 3 mins | Solve | |
Three Clocks | Numerical Reasoning | Medium | 3 mins | Solve | |
Assemble Triangle | Spatial Reasoning | Hard | 2 mins | Solve | |
Odd One Out | Spatial Reasoning | Easy | 2 mins | Solve | |
Four Blocks | Spatial Reasoning | Medium | 2 mins | Solve | |
Missing element | Ravens Progressive Matrices | Medium | 2 mins | Solve | |
Missing element | Ravens Progressive Matrices | Hard | 2 mins | Solve |
With Adaface, we were able to optimise our initial screening process by upwards of 75%, freeing up precious time for both hiring managers and our talent acquisition team alike!
Brandon Lee, Head of People, Love, Bonito
The most important thing while implementing the pre-employment Cognitive Ability Test in your hiring process is that it is an elimination tool, not a selection tool. In other words: you want to use the test to eliminate the candidates who do poorly on the test, not to select the candidates who come out at the top. While they are super valuable, pre-employment tests do not paint the entire picture of a candidate’s abilities, knowledge, and motivations. Multiple easy questions are more predictive of a candidate's ability than fewer hard questions. Harder questions are often "trick" based questions, which do not provide any meaningful signal about the candidate's skillset.
Email invites: You can send candidates an email invite to the Cognitive Ability Test from your dashboard by entering their email address.
Public link: You can create a public link for each test that you can share with candidates.
API or integrations: You can invite candidates directly from your ATS by using our pre-built integrations with popular ATS systems or building a custom integration with your in-house ATS.
Adaface tests are conversational, low-stress, and take just 25-40 mins to complete.
This is why Adaface has the highest test-completion rate (86%), which is more than 2x better than traditional assessments.
User authentication
Plagiarism detection
IP proctoring
Web proctoring
Webcam proctoring
Copy paste protection
The hiring managers felt that through the technical questions that they asked during the panel interviews, they were able to tell which candidates had better scores, and differentiated with those who did not score as well. They are highly satisfied with the quality of candidates shortlisted with the Adaface screening.
Cognitive ability may be defined as a mental capability that involves the ability to plan, solve problems, reason, think abstractly, learn quickly, comprehend complex ideas, and learn from experience.
The test is designed to enable recruiters and hiring managers to quickly identify which candidates should be invited to an interview.
This test will assess candidates on their fundamentals and depth of Cognitive Ability with questions on:
The questions are designed to test for on-the-job Cognitive Ability skills as opposed to just theoretical concepts. Test the situational and problem-solving ability of your candidates.
Yes, absolutely. Custom assessments are set up based on your job description, and will include questions on all must-have skills you specify.
We have the following anti-cheating features in place:
Read more about the proctoring features.
The primary thing to keep in mind is that an assessment is an elimination tool, not a selection tool. A skills assessment is optimized to help you eliminate candidates who are not technically qualified for the role, it is not optimized to help you find the best candidate for the role. So the ideal way to use an assessment is to decide a threshold score (typically 55%, we help you benchmark) and invite all candidates who score above the threshold for the next rounds of interview.
Each Adaface assessment is customized to your job description/ ideal candidate persona (our subject matter experts will pick the right questions for your assessment from our library of 10000+ questions). This assessment can be customized for any experience level.
Yes, it makes it much easier for you to compare candidates. Options for MCQ questions and the order of questions are randomized. We have anti-cheating/ proctoring features in place. In our enterprise plan, we also have the option to create multiple versions of the same assessment with questions of similar difficulty levels.
No. Unfortunately, we do not support practice tests at the moment. However, you can use our sample questions for practice.
You can check out our pricing plans.
Yes, you can sign up for free and preview this test.
Here is a quick guide on how to request a custom assessment on Adaface.