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Question 1 – Column Chart

Economist A's budget is 1,000 pounds. Economist A invested 20 pounds more in stocks than economist C.

A graph - Division of Budget to Investment Channels by Economist

What was Economist C's Budget?

A. £1,800

B. £2,000

C. £900

D. £1,020

E. None of the above

View Explanation

Economist A's budget is £1,000, and 20% of it was invested in stocks, meaning economist A had £200 invested in stocks (20% out of 1,000).

If economist A invested 20 pounds more than economist C, then economist C has invested £180 in stocks (200 - 20). According to the graph, economist C invested 10% of his budget in stocks, so if 10% of C's budget equals £180, then 100% (his entire budget) equals £1,800.

The correct answer is A.

Shortcut

The percentage formula is (part ÷ whole) × 100.

However, on a timed test like this, you may want to take a shortcut. Remember that to calculate 10% of anything, you need only move the decimal one spot to the left.

This way, 1,000 becomes 100.0.

If your percentage is a multiple of 10, multiply it to get your answer. So, 20% is 10% times two: 100 × 2 = 200. You can do this backwards as well: If 10% of a whole is 180.0, find the whole by moving the decimal one spot to the right: 1,800.

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Question 2 – Column Chart

Observe this table of monthly costs for mobile packages:

Mobile Company		TeleP	Mobility	XR-Communication	WiF	Call.org	Red
Package name (€ per month)	Basic	€6.0	€5.8	€4.0	€2.9	€6.7	€7.2
	Coach	€6.5	€6.0	€5.0	€3.9	€6.5	€7.4
	Business	€7.0	€7.1	€5.1	€4.9	€6.9	€7.5
	first Class	€7.1	€7.5	€5.2	€5.9	€7.4	€7.6
	Supreme	€8.0	€7.9	€5.3	€6.0	€8.0	€737
Contract Length (Months)		24 mon	12 mon	18 mon	12 mon	6 mon	24mon
Total No. of Sales		7,000	9,250	6,900	11,550	5,000	4,800

* Sales are distributed equally across the five different packages

Which Company has the highest monthly turnover? 

A. TeleP

B. Mobility

C. WiF

D. Call.org

E. Red

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To answer the question, you need to calculate the monthly turnover for each company and compare them to find the company with the highest one (notice that XR Communications is not included in the answer options, so you can ignore it). The monthly turnover of a company is calculated by multiplying the price of each package by the number of sales it made, then summing up the results.

According to the comment below the table, sales are distributed evenly across the 5 packages, meaning each package generated 1/5 of the company’s total sales. To save time, you can sum up all the package prices of a company and multiply by 1/5 of the company’s sales (alternatively, you can calculate the average package price for each company and multiply it by the total number of sales). For instance, the calculation for TeleP would be as follows:
6 x (7,000 x 1/5) + 6.5 x (7,000 x 1/5) + 7 x (7,000 x 1/5) + 7.1 x (7,000 x 1/5) + 8 x (7,000 x 1/5)

Or in short:
(6 + 6.5 + 7 + 7.1 + 8) x (7,000 x 1/5) = €48,440

Similarly, you can calculate the turnover for the other companies:

Mobility: (5.8 + 6 + 7.1 + 7.5 + 7.9) x (9,250 x 1/5) = €63,455
WiF: (2.9 + 3.9 + 4.9 + 5.9 + 6) x (11,550 x 1/5) = €54,516
Call.org: (6.1 + 6.5 + 6.9 + 7.4 + 8) x (5,000 x 1/5) = €34,900
Red: (7.2 + 7.4 + 7.5 + 7.6 + 7.7) x (4,800 x 1/5) = €35,904

(Note that you can avoid multiplying sales for each company by 1/5, as you do not need to find the actual turnover, only the company with the highest one).

Thus, Mobility is the correct answer as it has the highest monthly turnover

The correct answer is B.

Shortcut

You can save time by using estimations to eliminate some answer options. To maximise turnover, you can eliminate companies with low sales and low prices. Call.org and Red have relatively few sales (about 1⁄3 to ½ of WiF’s sales).

Though their prices are higher than those of WiF, you can see that it is not enough to make up for the significant difference in sales (to make up for it, their prices should have been 2-3 times higher than those of WiF).

Hence, you can eliminate Call.org and Red without performing any calculation.

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Use our pop-up sample test to get a feel for what the real SHL Numerical Reasoning is like.

Tip

The examples you’ve just seen are typical SHL Inductive Reasoning questions, where you spot patterns in shapes, sequences, and symbols to decide what comes next. In the real SHL inductive test, you’ll answer similar questions under tight time limits (often about a minute per question), so both speed and accuracy matter.

On the interactive versions (like SHL Verify G+), you may also need to move or arrange items on the screen, not just pick an answer, which makes practising SHL-style inductive questions especially important.

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SHL General Ability (Verify G+)

The SHL Verify G (also known as the SHL Verify G+ or SHL general ability test) is an online aptitude test that measures your overall reasoning ability. It includes numerical, inductive, and deductive questions like the ones we've covered so far.

Employers use it for many graduate, professional, and managerial roles.

The test comes in one of two versions:

Interactive (Verify G+ / interactive) – you answer questions in a more dynamic way, for example, by clicking and dragging, ranking items, or adjusting values on charts and number lines.
Non-interactive (traditional, multiple-choice) – you choose your answer from a fixed list of options.

Both interactive and non-interactive SHL tests assess the same core abilities: numerical reasoning, deductive (logical) reasoning, and inductive (abstract) reasoning.

Answer the following questions based on the text above:

Lots of people start running in their 30s or older, and it is one of the few sports in which you can improve with age. One example is the great Jack Foster, a self-styled "ancient marathoner”, who ran for the first time at the age of 32, and by the age of 40 found himself picking up a silver medal at the Christchurch Commonwealth marathon in 1974.

Of course, while we all may hold secret hopes of uncovering a latent talent, most of us are unlikely to progress to an elite level. But, whether we like to compete on a weekend or prefer to go on solitary excursions through the countryside, the message is that age is far less of a barrier in running than it is in other sports. With running, even if taken up later in life without any previous experience, it really is realistic to expect improvement with age.

Question 1

Which of the following best summarises the main idea of the second paragraph?

A. It describes people's hopes to uncover their talents.

B. It compares solitary runners to competitive runners.

C. It highlights the message that running has no age.

D. It emphasises the importance of running when one is older.

View Explanation

To answer this question, we must read paragraph 2 carefully. Once we do, we can see that the answer is obvious in the paragraph, starting with the words: ” The message is…” The message of this paragraph is that running has no age and therefore the correct answer is C.

Question 2

2. Based on the text, which of the following is definitely correct?

A. Many people start running at an older age.

B. Older runners generally receive more medals.

C. More people prefer to compete than to run alone.

D. Older runners are faster than younger runners.

View Explanation

In order to conclude which of the statements is definitely correct, we must locate them in the text and find which of them is explicitly mentioned there:

Answer choice (a) - The passage begins with the words: ”Lots of people start running in their 30s or older…”, corresponding with this answer choice and confirming it as correct.
Answer choice (b) - While it is true that Jack Foster received a medal for his running achievements, we don't actually know whether older runners receive more medals than younger runners. This is not necessarily a correct statement.
Answer choice (c) - The second paragraph describes two types of runners: people who like to participate in races and those who like to run without competing. It does not, however, compare the number of runners per category. Thus, this answer choice is not necessarily correct.
Answer choice (d) - Again, similar to answer choice (b), we do not have information regarding the qualifications of younger versus older runners, and therefore this answer choice is also not necessarily correct.

Therefore, answer choice (a) is the correct answer.

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