Practical test

Attention to detail test

Ability to spot discrepancies between documents and to follow multi step written instructions exactly.

Time to complete

About 10 minutes

Test family

Practical skill

Included in

All plans

What a candidate actually does

• Compare a purchase order against the matching invoice and list every mismatch
• Complete a form following instructions that include two deliberate traps

How it is scored

Discrepancies found minus false positives, so guessing does not pay. Instruction following is scored as a separate subscore.

Roles it suits

• Quality control
• Compliance assistant
• Proofreader
• Logistics coordinator

What it will not tell you

Performance drops with fatigue and time pressure, which is realistic but means a single sitting is a noisy estimate.

Every test has a boundary like this. A test used outside it stops predicting anything, which is the usual reason a hiring team loses faith in testing altogether.