Free Aptitude Tests
700 original quantitative aptitude questions across 14 chapters, each with a full worked solution, plus timed full-length papers in a real exam interface. Built for campus placements, Bank PO, SSC and MBA entrance tests. 100% free, no sign-up.
Three ways to practise
Drill one topic at a time until the method is automatic, then sit a full paper where all fourteen topics are mixed and choosing the approach is part of the question.
Chapter-wise tests
700 questions across 14 topics — percentages, profit and loss, time and work, interest, mixtures and more. Pick the topic, the number of questions and the clock. Worked solution on every question.
Quant full-length test
50 questions in 60 minutes, drawn across all 14 topics — the length and pace of a placement or Bank PO quant section. A fresh paper every time you take it.
Mixed aptitude mock
30 questions spanning Quantitative Aptitude, Logical Reasoning and Verbal Ability — the only one of the three that covers the reasoning and verbal sections as well as the arithmetic.
Tip: Attempt each question before checking — then read the solution for every question, even the ones you got right. A correct answer reached by a different route than the solution is usually a lucky elimination, not a learned method.
What an aptitude round actually tests
Almost every mass-recruiting employer in India puts an aptitude test between your application and a human being. It is a filter, not an exam: the company has ten thousand applications for four hundred seats and needs a defensible way to cut the pile before anyone spends time interviewing. Understanding that it is a filter changes how you should prepare for it, because a filter rewards speed and consistency far more than it rewards depth.
The three sections below are near-universal. The names change — some companies call verbal ability “English comprehension”, some split reasoning into logical and diagrammatic — but the content does not.
Quantitative aptitude
School arithmetic under time pressure. Percentages, profit and loss, ratio and proportion, simple and compound interest, averages, mixtures and alligation, time and work, time–speed–distance, pipes and cisterns, permutations and combinations, probability, and number systems (HCF, LCM, remainders, divisibility, unit digits).
Nothing here is harder than Class 10 mathematics. What makes it difficult is that you get roughly sixty to ninety seconds per question, and the arithmetic is deliberately awkward — 17.5% of 1,840 rather than 10% of 200. The skill being tested is whether you can set up the equation instantly and then compute without a calculator, not whether you understand the concept.
Logical reasoning
Seating arrangements (linear and circular), blood relations, direction sense, coding and decoding, syllogisms, series completion, puzzles with grids of constraints, data sufficiency, and the analytical puzzles where five people with five professions live in five houses.
Reasoning is the section where preparation pays off most visibly, because almost every question belongs to a recognisable family. The first time you meet a circular seating arrangement with people facing inward and outward, it takes twelve minutes. The twentieth time, it takes ninety seconds, because you have a fixed procedure: draw the circle, place the one absolute constraint, then test the relative ones.
Verbal ability
Synonyms and antonyms, sentence correction, error spotting, para-jumbles, fill in the blanks (both vocabulary and grammar), and reading comprehension passages of three hundred to six hundred words.
Verbal is where most engineering students quietly lose marks and assume they cannot improve. In fact grammar-based questions — subject–verb agreement, tenses, articles, prepositions, modifiers — are a closed and small set of rules, and error-spotting questions test perhaps fifteen rules in rotation. Vocabulary is the slower half, and the only way through is volume over months rather than a week of word lists.
How the major recruiters structure it
Patterns change every hiring season, so treat the following as the shape of the thing rather than a specification, and always read the current official notification before your test date.
- TCS NQT runs numerical ability, verbal ability and reasoning, with a separate programming logic section for the digital and prime tiers. Sectional timing is enforced, so you cannot borrow minutes from a section you find easy.
- Infosys weights logical reasoning heavily and includes a pseudocode section; its puzzles are usually harder than its arithmetic.
- Wipro adds a written-communication task and an online essay in some cycles alongside the standard three sections.
- Capgemini, Accenture and Cognizant stay close to the classic quant–reasoning–verbal split, with Accenture leaning on pattern and diagrammatic reasoning.
- Product companies often skip aptitude entirely and go straight to a coding round, which is why our DSA practice matters more if that is your target.
Sectional cut-offs are the trap. Many of these tests require you to clear each section separately. A candidate who scores 90% in quant and 30% in verbal is rejected, while one who scores 65% across all three goes through. If one section is weak, fixing it is worth far more than pushing a strong section higher.
How to use these tests properly
The chapter-wise tests and the full-length paper are deliberately different formats, and they are meant to be used at different stages.
- Learn the topic before you test it. Attempting a percentages set with no method in mind teaches you only that you cannot do percentages. Read the approach first, then use the set to check whether the approach stuck.
- Read the explanation on every question, including the ones you got right. A surprising number of correct answers on aptitude tests are lucky eliminations. If your reasoning was not the reasoning in the explanation, you have not actually learned the question type — you have survived one instance of it.
- Time yourself loosely at first, strictly later. For the first pass through a topic, accuracy matters and speed does not. Once you are consistently above eighty per cent, put ninety seconds on each question and accept that your accuracy will fall before it recovers.
- Keep a written log of every question you got wrong. One line is enough: the topic, and what went wrong. After two weeks you will find that your errors cluster into three or four recurring causes, and those clusters are your actual syllabus.
- Move to the full mock only when the topics are solid. A mock taken too early produces a demoralising score that tells you nothing you did not already know.
Separating the four kinds of mistake
When you review a set, every wrong answer falls into exactly one of four buckets, and they need completely different responses:
- You did not know the method. This is the only bucket that calls for going back and learning something. It is also the smallest bucket for most students, which surprises them.
- You knew the method and made an arithmetic slip. The fix is doing more sums, not more theory. Slips fall away with volume.
- You misread the question. Usually a missed word: “not”, “except”, “at least”, or a unit change from metres to kilometres. The fix is a deliberate habit of reading the final sentence twice.
- You ran out of time. The fix is a skip rule, not faster arithmetic.
Students who do not sort their errors this way tend to respond to every wrong answer by revising theory, which is the wrong treatment for three of the four causes and is why weeks of preparation sometimes produce no movement in score.
The skip rule
Decide before the test how long you will give a question before abandoning it, and hold to it. Ninety seconds is a reasonable default for quant and reasoning. The cost of breaking this rule is invisible and large: the five minutes you spend rescuing one stubborn puzzle are five minutes taken from four questions you could have answered comfortably, and those four were worth four times as much.
Make two passes. On the first, answer everything you can do quickly and flag the rest. On the second, return to the flagged questions with whatever time remains. Almost everyone scores higher this way than by working strictly in order, and the difference is usually several marks.
Guessing
Check whether your target company applies negative marking, because it changes the correct strategy completely. Where there is no penalty, leaving a blank is always wrong — a random guess on a four-option question is worth a quarter of a mark in expectation, and an educated guess after eliminating one option is worth a third. Where there is a penalty, guess only after eliminating at least two options.