Saville numerical reasoning test: find yours, try a question
Saville has two numerical tests, Numerical Analysis and Numerical Comprehension, and Swift tests that mix numerical with other questions in one short test. Your invitation's exact name tells you which Saville practice test to open. Here you can try our worked currency question and untimed practice, free to use.
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Not all Saville numerical tests are the same
Saville publishes a separate practice test for each of its tests, and its numerical tests and Swift combinations fall into two ranges, Analysis and Comprehension. Check the exact name in your invitation against this table before you practise.
| If your invitation says | What is in it |
|---|---|
| Analysis range | |
| Numerical Analysis | Numerical questions only |
| Swift Analysis Aptitude or Swift Analysis Verbal & Numerical | Two or three of verbal, numerical, diagrammatic and abstract reasoning, 18 to 24 minutes in all. Saville names graduates, managers, professionals and directors for these |
| Swift Executive Aptitude | Numerical, verbal and abstract reasoning, 18 minutes in all, for senior management and leadership |
| Comprehension range | |
| Numerical Comprehension | Numerical questions only |
| Swift Comprehension Aptitude or Swift Comprehension Verbal & Numerical | Two or three of verbal, numerical and error checking, 9.5 to 16 minutes in all. Saville names administrative, customer service, operational and commercial roles for these |
The jobs in the table are the ones Saville names for its Swift combinations, and the pages cited here name none for Numerical Analysis or Numerical Comprehension. If your invitation only says numerical, ask the employer which test it is, or try both numerical practice tests.
Saville also says its aptitude tests are a fixed length, with a gradual increase in difficulty.
Not on your phone. Saville’s aptitude tests cannot be taken on a mobile phone, apart from Swift Comprehension Verbal & Numerical, Swift Global Aptitude and Workplace English.
Try a two-step currency question
Work out your answer before you open the working.
Practice question
A company pays an invoice of 2,400 pounds to a supplier abroad. The bank converts the payment to euros and takes a fee.
| Detail | Figure |
|---|---|
| Invoice | 2,400 pounds |
| Exchange rate | 1.25 euros to the pound |
| Bank fee | 4% of the converted amount, deducted |
How many euros arrive?
Our question, written for Testonome practice. Nothing you decide here is recorded.
Check your answer
2,880 euros. Convert the invoice first. Then work out the fee on the euros the conversion produced, and take it off.
- Convert: 2,400 × 1.25 = 3,000 euros.
- The fee is 4% of the converted amount: 3,000 × 0.04 = 120 euros.
- The bank deducts it: 3,000 − 120 = 2,880 euros.
3,120 adds the fee instead of taking it off. The bank charges for the transfer, so less arrives than the conversion produced.
3,000 is the converted amount before the fee. The conversion is right, and the fee still has to come off.
1,843.20 comes from dividing by the rate instead of multiplying, 2,400 ÷ 1.25 = 1,920, and then taking 4% off. That converts the wrong way. Each pound buys 1.25 euros, so more euros arrive than there were pounds, not fewer.
If you converted first, took the fee off and still reached a different figure, compare your steps with 3,000 and 120 to find the slip.
You can also check an answer without redoing it. Each pound buys 1.25 euros, so converting gives a quarter more than 2,400, and a 4% fee cannot take all of that back. So the answer is more than 2,400 and less than 3,000, which rules out the three figures above. It would not catch 2,996, which takes 4 euros off rather than 4% of the amount, so read the fee as a percentage.
The currency conversion page works this same question step by step.
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If you got 2,880 euros and could explain each step, move on to new figures in the drill below.
If you got 3,120, 3,000, 1,843.20 or another figure, or reached 2,880 by guessing, go back through the working above until you could redo it without looking. Then try the drill.
If the arithmetic is fine and what you have not seen is Saville’s own format, open the Saville practice test with the same name as your invitation on its practice tests page. Saville says those practice tests are timed, give you onscreen feedback on each question and can be repeated as often as you like, and that their purpose is to get you used to the test’s format and to working to strict time limits. It also says the difficulty of its example questions does not necessarily represent the difficulty of the test itself, so do not judge your chances by how easy or hard they felt.
The button below opens the currency-conversion drill: five multiple-choice questions, untimed and free to use, with no account and no payment. Every wrong option there is one of the four slips worked through above, and if you pick one, the review tells you which slip it was. It practises the calculation rather than Saville’s screens, and the target time in each explanation is our own pacing for this skill.