Cubiks numerical reasoning test: Logiks formats and practice
A Cubiks numerical reasoning test can mean the numerical section of Logiks General or the separate Logiks Numerical test, and their published timings and question counts differ. This guide helps you find which one your invitation names, try a data question with a worked answer, and choose between method practice and Talogy's own example questions.
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Talogy’s candidate area on the Cubiks site lists three Logiks tests with numerical questions. How long you get for those questions depends on which one your invitation names, from 4 minutes in one to 25 minutes in another.
Find your test in the table below, then try the data question after it. The working shows whether choosing the calculation or carrying it out is the part to practise.
If you would rather go straight to untimed drills, they are in our numerical section.
Which Logiks numerical test are you taking?
Match the name in your invitation to one of these rows. The figures are the ones Talogy publishes on its Logiks Intermediate and Logiks Advanced pages.
| Test name | Numerical part | Time and questions |
|---|---|---|
| Logiks General (Intermediate) | One of three sections | 4 minutes, 16 questions |
| Logiks General (Advanced) | One of three sections | 8 minutes, 8 questions |
| Logiks Numerical (Advanced) | The whole test | 25 minutes, 20 questions |
Two of the names say Advanced, and they are different tests. Logiks General (Advanced) gives its numerical section 8 minutes. Logiks Numerical (Advanced) is a numerical test on its own, with 25 minutes. The totals Talogy shows for Logiks General, 12 minutes at Intermediate and 20 minutes at Advanced, cover all three sections, verbal, numerical and abstract, so neither is your time for the numerical questions.
On these figures, the Intermediate numerical section allows an average of 15 seconds a question, Logiks General (Advanced) 60 seconds and Logiks Numerical (Advanced) 75 seconds. Talogy’s assessment tips say that on a timed test you can skip a question you are unsure of and come back to it at the end if you have time left. The instructions for your own test decide whether you can, so read them first.
Try a practice question with a data table
Talogy suggests having what you need ready before you start, such as a calculator, a notepad and a pen. Use them here too, and work out your answer before you open the working.
Practice question
A shop has three stores. The table shows each store's share of all the shop's orders last month, and the mean value of an order in that store.
| Store | Share of the orders | Mean order value |
|---|---|---|
| North | 60% | 45 euros |
| Central | 25% | 78 euros |
| South | 15% | 90 euros |
What was the mean order value across all three stores?
Our question, written for Testonome practice. Nothing you decide here is recorded.
Check your answer
60 euros. Each percentage is a store's share of the orders, and a mean order value is counted over orders. So each store's mean counts in proportion to its share: multiply each mean by its share as a decimal, then add the three parts.
- North: 0.60 × 45 = 27 euros.
- Central: 0.25 × 78 = 19.50 euros.
- South: 0.15 × 90 = 13.50 euros.
- All three stores: 27 + 19.50 + 13.50 = 60 euros.
71 euros is what you get by adding 45, 78 and 90 and dividing by 3. That treats the stores as if each took a third of the orders. North took 60% of them, so its lower mean counts for more and pulls the answer down. If you got 71, the arithmetic was right and the choice of calculation was not.
If you multiplied by the shares and still reached a different figure, you chose the right calculation and one step slipped. Compare your parts with 27, 19.50 and 13.50 to find it.
You can also check an answer without redoing it. North has more than half of the orders and the lowest mean, so the mean across all three stores has to be below 67.50, halfway between the lowest mean, 45, and the highest, 90. 60 is below it. 71 is above it.
The weighted average page works this same shop question, and an example where the groups are counted in customers rather than given as percentages.
Choose your next Cubiks numerical reasoning practice
If you got 60 euros and could explain each step, move on to new figures in the drill below.
If you got 71 euros or another figure, or reached 60 by guessing, go back through the working above until you could redo it without looking. Then try the drill. Every question there is worked through after you submit, so a wrong answer shows you the step as well.
If the arithmetic is fine and what you have not seen is Talogy’s own screen, use its candidate area. Its home page says you can learn about the assessment you were invited to and try some example questions from its Our Assessments pages. Open the Logiks page that matches your invitation: Intermediate for Logiks General (Intermediate), and Advanced for either Advanced test. Talogy also asks you to read all the instructions carefully, even if you have taken similar tests before, in case something is different.
The button below opens the weighted average drill: five multiple-choice questions, untimed and free to use, with no account and no payment. Each one gives the sizes of two groups of customers and their mean ratings, and asks for the mean across both groups. The weights there are numbers of customers rather than percentages, and the method is the same. The drill practises the calculation rather than Talogy’s screens, and the target time in each explanation is our own pacing for this skill.