Free logical reasoning test

What a logical reasoning test measures

A logical reasoning test gives you rules and asks what must follow. Not what is likely, not what usually happens, but what is forced by the rules as stated. “Every archived invoice has been approved. Invoice R has not been approved.” Then R cannot be archived, whatever you know about invoices.

Logic tests appear in hiring for roles where people apply policies, contracts, eligibility rules and procedures: compliance, operations, legal support, software, customer service, public sector. The tests come in two families. Verbal logic (this test) works with stated rules: syllogisms, if-then conditions, ordering and constraint puzzles of the kind graduate and professional aptitude batteries use. Visual logic works with shapes and sequences, and lives in our abstract reasoning test.

How this free test works

• 16 questions, four per skill: deduction (syllogisms), conditions (if-then and if-and-only-if rules), ordering (who is first, which sequence fits) and constraints (teams, boxes, schedules, switches).
• A bank of 80 items. Deduction and condition questions are written in six forms, each rendered in several workplace settings, and no attempt uses the same form twice. Ordering and constraint puzzles are generated with random names and clues and verified so exactly one answer satisfies every clue.
• 10 minutes timed, or untimed while you learn.
• Explanations after you finish, spelling out the chain of inference or the full arrangement.
• An optional shareable result with a permanent link, preview image and Add to LinkedIn profile button.

Sample logic questions

Deduction. Some trainers are designers. All designers use the studio. Which statement must be true? Answer: Some trainers use the studio. The trainers who are designers must use it. “All trainers use the studio” goes beyond the rules, and “everyone in the studio is a designer” reverses the second rule.

Conditions. A file can be published only if it is approved. The file is approved. What can you conclude? Answer: It may or may not have been published. Approval is necessary for publication, not sufficient. This is the classic trap: treating “only if” as “if”.

Ordering. Four people arrive one at a time. Lena arrives before Omar. Omar arrives immediately before Priya. Sam is not first. Who is third? Work it through: Omar and Priya are adjacent in that order; Lena is before Omar; Sam is not first, so Lena is first. Lena, Omar, Priya, Sam: Priya is third.

How to improve your logical reasoning score

1. Translate each rule into a short form before reading the options: A → B, “not both A and B”, “exactly one of”.
2. Test conclusions by trying to break them. If you can build one arrangement where the rules hold and the conclusion fails, the conclusion is not required.
3. Know the four condition patterns. “If A then B” plus “A” gives B; plus “not B” gives not A. “A” plus “not A” tells you nothing about B, and “B” tells you nothing about A. “If and only if” runs both ways.
4. For ordering puzzles, pin the anchors first: the “immediately before” pairs and the “not first / not last” clues remove most permutations at once.
5. Distrust plausibility. The distractors are written to sound reasonable. The question is what must follow.

Reading your result

The result guide explains the score, the four ranges and which of the four skills to practise next. A skill count out of four is a pointer, not a measurement of general ability. This is unsupervised practice with no identity check, not a certificate.

Related free tests

• Abstract reasoning test: the visual half of logic testing, with hidden pattern rules.
• Verbal reasoning test: what a passage does and does not establish.
• Attention to detail test: applying format rules to records under time.