Graduate Numerical Tests:

Major Test Providers and Users

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Major test providers

SHL

PSL/Kenexa
Saville Consulting
TalentQ
Cubiks
Talent Lens (Pearson)

Major graduate recruiters (2012)

Big4

Over 5,000 graduate jobs and internships

PwC

1,200 graduate jobs plus hundreds of internships

Deloitte

1,200 graduate jobs plus hundreds of internships

Investment Banks

Over 5,000 graduate jobs and internships

Engineering & Industry

Over 1,300 graduate placements alone

Banking and Finance

900 graduate roles plus internships

IT and telecoms

Over 600 graduate placements alone

Oil & Energy

Nearly 600 graduate roles

Consulting

Nearly 500 graduate jobs

Who uses SHL or PSL

Employer

SHL

PwC

PSL

Other

Deloitte
KPMG

Cubiks

Ernst & Young

Saville

Barclays and BarCap

JP Morgan

Morgan Stanley
UBS

Merrill Lynch

Lloyds TSB Bank

Goldman Sachs
BP

In-house

In-house
Saville

Numerical operations used

Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication

Division
Averages
Percentages

Ratios

Key challenges of numerical tests

Lack of time

Psychological effect due to the time pressure

Different contexts used for numerical problems
Use of several data sets, graphs and/or tables

Varying difficulty of questions throughout the test

Difficulty to understand the questions
Complexity of calculations

Unfamiliar test format

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