Qantas is an Australian airline on the lookout for qualified pilots. Its recruitment process includes the SHL aptitude test battery, as well as the Talent Q logical reasoning test.
Below you will find information regarding the topics you may find on your Qantas SHL test. The exact test structure and time limit may vary depending on the position you are applying for.
During the SHL numerical assessment, information is presented in tables, bar charts, pie charts, records, analysis tables, and more. You must show that you can perform basic numerical functions, understand graphs and other information, make inferences from numerical data and evaluate quantities as a means to arrive at the answer from a list of provided options.
The purpose of the verbal reasoning test is to assess how quickly and accurately you can comprehend written information, interpret it logically, and analyse statements about written information and determine their credibility. In this section of the test, you will need to read several passages of text and answer questions based on the information provided.
The purpose of an inductive reasoning test is to evaluate the way you think and react to new rules and situations. The questions often require you to identify patterns of rules in diagrams.
Deductive reasoning tests aim to measure your ability to take information from a set of given premises and draw conclusions from them. Because the tests are abstract, they don’t rely on any specific industry or cultural knowledge. The important thing about these questions is that there is always a logically correct answer.
Checking tests are designed to evaluate speed and accuracy skills. They are exhaustive and demand a high level of concentration. This is because they require discriminating and comparing multiple sets of data that contain a lot of numerical and letter-based information, most of which have no significant meaning in real life.
• You cannot go back to previous questions. Do not skip questions thinking you will get back to them if you have the time, because that is impossible in this test. If you think a question is taking you too long, take your best guess and move on.
• Don’t approach each question in the set as if it were the first. Remember, the questions in the test come in sets of three, that is, three questions per table. The second and third questions in each set should be easier, or at least, take you less time than the first. Use your increasing familiarity with the table; read the question first, then go straight to where the information is in the table.
The numerical reasoning test is a graph and table interpretation test, examining the same skills as most other numerical reasoning tests you will come across.
The content of the tests is similar to many other numerical reasoning tests found in the assessment market today, however, there are also some significant differences in this assessment, which are set out below. Our tailored numerical practice pack includes most of these differences.
To read more about the numerical test click here.
Read the following text and answer the questions.
The Evolution of Education
Over the past decade, higher education has become increasingly international. More and more students choose to study abroad, enrol in foreign educational programmes and institutions in their home country, or simply use the Internet to take courses at colleges or universities in other countries.
Today, drawing in foreign students has become a major consideration for universities. More than £27m is to be invested over the next two years to attract more foreign students to UK universities. The internationalisation of higher education means that in university courses – especially but not exclusively post-graduate courses - you increasingly find someone whose mother-tongue is not English teaching a group of students, very few of whom have English as their first language. This undoubtedly affects the way people learn and how people teach. This also affects their professional skills later on - many students believe that studying with international students would help prepare them for working life. Not an insignificant amount of London University PhD students are multilingual and write in English, although French and Italian are also regular working languages.
The European University Institute (EUI) is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral teaching and research institute established by European Union member states to contribute to scientific development in the social sciences, an ideal place to debate the challenges ahead for other institutions. ‘There is a kind of denationalised way of looking at the disciplines that we teach; it’s not ignoring the national traditions but we’re not so constrained by them and we tend automatically to see things from a comparative and transnational perspective. We are therefore able to start thinking seriously about what it means to teach in this way and in these international environments’, explains the president of EUI.
1. Which one of the following trends is described in the passage?
2. Which one of the following most effectively summarises the president of EUI's quote?
The correct answer is alternative #9: ☺☺☺.
The pop-up: In each row, one of the cells contains three different symbols and the other cells consist of a tripling of its left/right symbol. Thus, the correct answer is alternative #9.
The complete logic: In each row, the symbols in one of the cells are a combination of the symbols from the other cells so that:
According to this logic, the symbols in the missing cell must be three ‘☺’, which is alternative #9.
This test is a non-verbal test. It assesses your analytical and logical skills using symbols rather than words or numbers.
What Is the Style Of the Test?
You are given an incomplete matrix filled with shapes and asked to identify the pattern linking them together in order to choose the missing shape. The shapes are held together by a logic from both left to right and top to bottom.
To read more about the logical test click here
SHL Test Scoring Method
The Talent Q and SHL psychometric assessments are not scored as a pass or fail.
There is a possibility that Qantas requests a benchmark score that needs to be reached in order to be considered a worthy candidate.
It is important to keep in mind that you will be scored based on how well you analyse the given data and make accurate conclusions within the allotted period of time.
Qantas, Talent Q, Hay Group, Korn Ferry, MMPI-2, and other trademarks are the property of their respective trademark holders. None of these trademark holders are affiliated with JobTestPrep or this website.