Acumen Logic®How it works
How it works: diagnose, teach, prove.
Acumen Logic works in three steps, in that order. Take the free 17-minute Benchmark, or a free SHL, Aon or Cappfinity test, to find where you stand. Learn the method behind every question you miss in short drills. Then sit replica SHL, Aon and Cappfinity tests and watch your estimated percentile move. This page walks through each step.
Got a test invitation? Try a free test from the same publisher: SHL · Aon · Cappfinity.
Seventeen minutes, taken cold.
The Benchmark is 20 timed questions in three sections: numerical, verbal and logical reasoning. It is free, and so are the results: your score, an estimated percentile, your weakest section named, and the correct answer for every question.
You get one attempt, ever. In our view, a score you can retake again and again shows how well you know that test, not your ability. One attempt keeps the result a fair baseline.
- Numerical: 8 questions, 8 minutes
- Verbal: 7 questions, 5 minutes
- Logical: 5 questions, 4 minutes
- Scored on our server against a fixed key
What you see at the end
Score, estimated percentile, weakest section.
Side by side, with the answer review underneath.
20 questions · 17 minutes · one attempt
- Numerical: 6 / 8
- Verbal: 3 / 7
- Logical: 4 / 5
Weakest section: Verbal, 3 of 7.
Step 02 · Teach
A drill is five units, not a pile of questions.
Every one of the 25 drills follows the same five units, in this order. Click one.
What a wrong answer gets you
Not "incorrect". A name, a method, and a line to remember.
This is the Try It unit of the Percentages & Percentage Change drill. Answer it, wrongly if you like, and watch the right-hand side.
After a 20% discount, a jacket costs £80. What was the original price?
What caught you Reverse percentage solved forwards
You applied the discount forwards instead of undoing it. A 20% cut leaves 80% of the original, so the original is the sale price divided by 0.8.
Step-by-step method
- £80 is 80% of the original
- Original = £80 ÷ 0.80
- = £100
Remember
To undo a percentage change, divide by the multiplier. Never add the percentage back.
The panels light up when you answer. Get it right and only the method and reminder show.
Named traps
The mistakes have names. Learn them.
A wrong answer in a drill is tagged with the named trap behind it, where there is one. Each trap comes with a worked example and what to watch for. Here are six. Click one.
Step 03 · Prove
Sit the real format. Then look at the numbers.
41 replica forms across SHL, Aon and Cappfinity: our own questions, set in each publisher's format. One test per publisher is free.
Where a publisher publishes a time limit, the replica uses it. Where it publishes none, the timing is our own setting, and each card below says which. Each scored question earns 1 or 0, with no deduction for a wrong answer. Every sitting feeds the analytics.
How sure we are: Confirmed by the employer or the test publisher Reported by other sources Not published anywhere we could find How we check
Interactive and multiple choice, the two versions SHL describes.
Drag, rank, plot and paint on the interactive forms; five options on the multiple-choice ones; TRUE, FALSE or Cannot Say on Verbal Reasoning. No going back, and no penalty for wrong answers on our replicas.
SHL publishes a time limit only for Verify G+. Our General Ability forms use that limit, with fewer questions. Every other time below is our own setting.
See all 15 forms
- Calculation · 2 forms · 20 q · 6 min
- Deductive Reasoning · 2 forms · 12 q · 18 min
- General Ability · 2 forms · 24 q · 36 min
- Inductive Reasoning, interactive · 2 forms · 15 q · 18 min
- Inductive Reasoning, multiple choice · 18 q · 24 min
- Numerical Reasoning, interactive · 2 forms · 10 q · 18 min
- Numerical Reasoning, multiple choice · 18 q · 25 min
- Situational Judgement · 11 q · untimed
- Verbal Reasoning · 2 forms · 30 q · 19 min
Short and speeded.
Aon's candidate page says that on its performance tests, “points are usually added for each correct answer and deducted for every incorrect answer” Confirmed.
Aon does not publish how many points a wrong answer costs, so there is no figure to copy. Our replicas score each question 1 or 0 instead, and the explanations show where a guess would have cost you.
Aon's candidate page gives times only for scales numerical and scales verbal. Every other time below is our own setting.
See all 17 forms
- gapChallenge · 2 forms · 40 q · 10 min
- switchChallenge · 45 q · 6 min
- scales clx · 2 forms · 30 q · 10 min
- scales ix · 2 forms · 20 q · 5 min
- Logical Reasoning · 2 forms · 10 q · 25 min
- Numerical Reasoning · 2 forms · 20 q · 12 min
- digitChallenge · 2 forms · 40 q · 10 min
- scales numerical · 37 q · 12 min
- scales verbal · 49 q · 12 min
- Verbal Reasoning · 2 forms · 35 q · 12 min
Reported, one source: time is recorded. Some questions can be timed.
Candidates report an on-screen line saying time is recorded, not limited Reported one source. Deloitte, reported to use Cappfinity Reported one source, says on its own page that some questions are timed.
Our replicas record your time and set no limit. Cappfinity publishes no item counts or scoring model, so ours are our own setting, and we say so.
See all 9 forms
- Behavioural · 12 items
- Coding Potential · 12 items
- Critical Reasoning · 2 forms · 20 items
- Diagrammatic Reasoning · 10 items
- Numerical Reasoning · 2 forms · 12 items
- Verbal Reasoning · 2 forms · 14 items
- Behavioural is for practice only: it is not scored
Analytics
Accuracy, pace and estimated percentile, per publisher, per sitting.
Score history across every attempt. Category gaps ranked with a pace verdict. The traps that still catch you, from your drill answers. A plain recommendation of what to do next.
Last 10 sittings · accuracy by category
- Numerical: 62%
- Verbal: 77%
- Logical: 60%
- Situational: no data
Numerical: 62%, fast. You are rushing, not running out of time. 75% is where the engine calls a category solid.
Honesty
Every percentile says "estimated".
Your percentile is an estimate from a statistical model, not a live count of other people's scores. A model is not a measurement, so we label it, everywhere. How the estimate is produced →
Know where you stand
before they decide.
The Benchmark is free. Seventeen minutes, an instant estimated percentile, and the correct answer for every question.
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