Verbal Reasoning
Summary of the Verbal Reasoning test
This Verbal Reasoning test evaluates candidates’ ability to recognize logical relationships between words and draw accurate conclusions from written information. This ability test helps you assess candidates’ analytical skills through language.
Covered skills
Solving problems using words and language
Finding analogies
Applying logical reasoning
Understanding premises and inference
Use the Verbal Reasoning test to hire
Any role that requires proficient use of language and reasoning, reading comprehension, and verbal ability.
About the Verbal Reasoning test
Our Verbal Reasoning assessment test helps you measure an applicant’s ability to comprehend and reason with words in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, or Portuguese.
People with advanced verbal reasoning skills can carefully analyze information, collaborate well with others, and make more confident and accurate decisions.
The first part of the test assesses candidates’ skills in identifying relationships between words and replicating them. The second part assesses a candidate’s ability to make accurate and valid conclusions based on information they read.
We focus on proving whether test takers can confidently use the written word to draw analogies, use synonyms and antonyms, correctly communicate meaning, understand “true,” “false,” and “cannot say” statements, and reason with facts. People who score highly in our Verbal and Reasoning test are great at:
Solving problems using words and language
Thinking critically and applying logical reasoning
Collaborating and communicating with others
Understanding inferences and looking beyond the obvious to find correct answers
Following instructions and then figuring out a solution
Decoding number-based code
Check out multiple-choice example questions from the Verbal Reasoning test for more hands-on insight or for a practice test with a few sample questions.
The test is made by a subject-matter expert
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Reliability: Cronbach’s alpha coefficient = .71
Face validity: Candidates rated this test as accurately measuring their skills (average score of 4.3 out of 5.00).
Criterion-related validity: Candidates with higher scores on this test received higher average ratings from the hiring team during the selection process (r = .34).
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Reliability and validity | Sufficient data available | Analyses and checks conducted | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
Reliability | ✔ | ✔ | Acceptable |
Content validity | ✔ | ✔ | Acceptable |
Face validity | ✔ | ✔ | Acceptable |
Construct validity | ✔ | ✔ | Acceptable |
Criterion-related validity | ✔ | ✔ | Acceptable |
Group differences | |||
Age differences | Pending | Pending | Pending |
Gender differences | ✔ | ✔ | Acceptable |
Ethnicity differences | Pending | Pending | Pending |
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Why are verbal reasoning skills important to employers?
Hiring people who excel in the Verbal Reasoning assessment test helps companies reduce miscommunication, boost working efficiency, increase team synergy, and improve productivity and end-product quality.
Verbal reasoning skills are pivotal in job roles that revolve around clear, professional communication – and in hybrid/remote work, where people rely on instant messaging and email to get points across effectively and efficiently.
Verbal reasoning competencies to hire for
Our Verbal Reasoning test enables you to find proactive, conscientious, motivated people who:
Understand complex data and information
Express themselves clearly, concisely, and professionally
Use reason to reach accurate conclusions
Communicate with different business levels, from interns to the C-suite
Produce detailed reports and analyses from a passage of text
Make well-informed, data-driven decisions
Create presentations from multiple data sources
Share information with clients, stakeholders, and customers
What job roles can you hire with our Verbal Reasoning assessment test?
Our test is ideal for a wide range of roles, including customer-facing positions, roles where people need to solve problems under pressure and navigate complex verbal reasoning questions and answers, and remote vacancies.
Here are a just few examples of when to use our Verbal Assessment test:
Account managers analyze clients’ needs through written records and conversations and make reasoned decisions to solve their problems
Analysts rely on verbal reasoning to interpret reports, evaluate qualitative data, and communicate insights effectively, complementing their numerical reasoning skills to provide comprehensive analyses.
Career coaches analyze people’s skill sets and communicate to find opportunities for free practice that suit their needs and abilities
Customer support agents and representatives use written records to help solve problems remotely, meaning they need strong reasoning skills to answer the right types of questions and find solutions
Co-pilots support their partners with flight data and analysis – they are strong, confident communicators who dissect complex data under pressure
Nurses, to ensure patients receive the best possible care, read medical records, collaborate with specialists, and make important industry-standard snap decisions
Social workers dig deep into resources to help people receive regular support and improve their quality of life
Drivers are confident at reading maps and GPS within time limits and communicating with passengers to find out where they need to go
Companies such as Visionaries FZ-LLC, a game development studio, use skills tests to hire people with exceptional verbal reasoning skills in their selection process. It thrives on a workforce that can translate complex business concepts for broad audiences. In fact, skills testing has helped the studio save up to 15 hours in recruiting time per hire.
Create a multi-measure assessment: 4 tests to pair with the Verbal Reasoning test
To hire well-rounded candidates, you should ask job applicants more than just verbal reasoning test questions.
TestGorilla’s assessment builder offers up to five test slots, meaning you can add four complementary psychometric tests alongside the Verbal Reasoning assessment.
Here are four aptitude tests we suggest including in a complete multi-measure assessment:
Critical Thinking test: Find people who can focus on solving problems based on objective data. Critical thinkers make confident communication decisions without supervision.
Communication test: Assess recruits' ability to collaborate with others and how actively they listen to requests. This test also judges how versatile they are at sharing information with different audiences.
Big 5 (OCEAN) test: Measure how conscientious, extroverted, and confident your candidates are through scale-based questions. It’s helpful insight into how your applicants approach work and collaboration.
Time Management test: Hire self-starting, proactive job seekers who manage their own schedules and stick to deadlines. When you couple this with a verbal reasoning test, you recruit reliable people who embrace challenges.
Note: We haven’t included any role-specific skills tests here because they depend on the position you’re hiring for. However, we highly recommend you add at least one in your five-test assessment to ensure your candidates possess the right skills for the job.
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