The test consists of 30 items. Each item looks like:
- Condition
first consequence
second consequence
third consequence
A "condition" is a condition of a problem, some circumstances that are considered previously somehow proven and always true.
"Consequence" is a logical consequence of a condition. Of the three corollaries, one and only one is correct. Your task is to test your ability to separate the right logical consequences from the wrong ones.
The test does not require special mathematical knowledge. All words in the test should be interpreted as it is done in ordinary everyday Russian, but not as in mathematics or any other special area. All words in the test should be interpreted literally, no metaphors or hints are provided in the test.
In the test, you may find unfamiliar words such as "kuzdra". These words are intended to assess your logical thinking ability, separating it from your other knowledge about the world around you. Consider that these words can mean anything you want, but so that the phrase in the condition is truthful in meaning. For example, if it is written that "kuzdra is running", it means that kuzdra really knows how to run and, apparently, has legs or legs, for example, it can be a person, an animal or a walking mechanism :)
Sometimes in the test there are words and expressions that are opposite in meaning, for example, "can" and "can not", "big" and "small", etc. In all such cases, it is assumed that intermediate options ("can, but poorly", "average") are not considered.
Test number 1
Answer quickly without hesitation. And don't spy on the answers!
1.
You are competing and overtook the runner in second position.
Where are you now?
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Try to answer the second question of the test
2. You overtook the last runner, where are you now?
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3. Take 1000. Add 40. Add another thousand. Add 30. Another 1000. Plus 20. Plus 1000. And plus 10. What happened?
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4. Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Chacha 2. Cheche 3. Chichi 4 Chocho. Question: What is the name of the fifth daughter? Think fast. The answer is just below.
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Test number 2
This test is very simple. You need to answer one question ...
Why is honey golden?
NS because the flowers receive a lot of sunshine.
NS because the pollen is naturally golden in color.
NS because the bees enrich it with enzymes that have such a shade.
NS Because people make honey like that.
I AM Do not know.
Mini intelligence test # 3
Do you want to test yourself for quick wits? A little test!
1.
So - the deaf-mute decided to buy a toothbrush. He goes to the store and gestures to the seller that he is brushing his teeth. The seller guesses what this is about, and the deaf-mute gets his brush.
Now - the blind man decided to buy himself sunglasses. How can he inform the seller about this?
Think, and then see the correct answer ...
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2. Make one word from the given set of letters - L O S O N D O O V
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3. The pilot jumped out of the plane without a parachute. How was he able to remain unharmed after landing on hard ground?
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Test No. 4
1. There are two bottles of 5 and 3 liters. How to use them to measure exactly a liter of water, without using any other containers.
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2. There are 5 mushrooms in the basket. How to divide the mushrooms between five mushroom pickers, so that everyone gets the same amount and one mushroom remains in the basket?
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3. In 1970 the man was 30 years old, and in 1975 he was 25 years old. How is this possible?
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4.
Guess how many cats are in the room if there is 1 cat in each of the 4 corners of the room, 3 cats are in front of each cat, 1 cat is sitting on the tail of each cat.
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5.
Many of you have seen in alcohol stores bottles with alcohol containing some large ripe fruit inside: an apple, a pear, etc. Now tell me how to put a sufficiently large ripe fruit (not dried) in such a bottle with a narrow neck without damaging and without dividing it.
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6.
Not far from the coast is a ship with a lowered rope ladder. The stairs have 15 steps. The distance between the steps is 45 cm. The lowest step touches the surface of the water. Suddenly a tide begins, due to which the water level rises every hour by 15 cm. Question: after what period of time will the water level reach the third stage?
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7.
Two traffic policemen are standing by the road. One looks to the left to see if a car is coming from the north, and the other looks to the right to see if a car is coming from the south. Suddenly one asks the other: "What are you smiling at?" How could he know that the other inspector was smiling?
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8.
Imagine two cities, in one of which people speak only the truth, and in the other only lies. People from one city often visit people in another city and vice versa. If you find yourself in one of the cities, what is the only question you should ask a passer-by to find out which of the two cities you are in?
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9.
A motorist in the parking lot discovered in the morning that his car had a flat tire. Despite this, he got into the car and drove 50 km to work and in the evening drove back 50 km again, without carrying out any repairs or changing a wheel. How is this possible?
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10.
A tool for measuring time with a minimum of moving elements is a sundial. Which time measurement tool has the maximum number of moving parts?
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11. At the sports car competition, the two best racers made an unusual bet - whose car comes slower, the winner and the prize pool will take it for himself. At the start, when the start gong sounded, both cars did not even think to move forward. Everyone is confused, the competition is thwarted. To young people (racers). An elderly man came up and said something to both of them. After a short pause, both are on the gas, who are faster, trying to overtake each other. The rules are unchanged - the fund will be taken by the one whose car comes second. Q: what did the older man say to the riders?
They can be as simple tasks, when, for example, there is a sequence of figures with an increasing number of vertices, that is, a triangle, square or rhombus and so on, and the answer is a geometric figure with the required number of vertices. However, a variant is possible where inside one figure there are several other smaller objects, and they alternate with a certain sequence.
Where are logic tests found?
Tasks like these are often used to test intellectual ability, and many job seekers have met the IQ test when hiring, even if employers did not call it that. More precisely, the candidates were solving IQ problems, not the entire test.
When solving abstract-logical problems, intelligence is used as much as possible, because it is necessary to find a connection between a set of circles, asterisks, all kinds of lines extremely quickly. It is not necessary that the person who solved this test best of all is smarter than others, he is simply able to quickly process incomprehensible, previously unknown information, and based on it, find a solution. Such abilities are important for all professions, but in companies special emphasis is placed on sales managers, sales managers, marketers, and the like.
You can almost certainly say that the applicant will meet in the companies of the FMCG sector, that is, in large corporations that produce mass-market products. Procter & Gamble, Unilver, Mars, other well-known companies with tens of billions of dollars in revenue require their employees to be able to process unknown data, and do it quickly, and find the right answers.
Of course, domestic employers also use attentiveness tests when hiring, most often when recruiting sales representatives, wholesale product managers, etc.
In general, there is only one advice on preparing for testing - you need to devote some time to solving problems, but there are some nuances.
Workout fast visual coverage. Since the time for an assignment is usually limited to one minute, it is necessary to leave as many seconds as possible for the analysis, therefore it is advisable to view the test with figures as quickly as possible when hiring. It is not necessary to use logical tests, you can train on anything: memorize signs on the way to work, faces, clothes of people you meet, etc.
"Identification"... The key to a successful solution to the problem is finding the principle used, because when a relationship is found between changes in the figures, it costs nothing to choose the right one for the answer. Finding addiction, however, is the hardest part. Unlike the previous point, it is not visualization that is important here, but the logical component, therefore, logic should be trained using any means. Available logic tests can be used.
"Repeatability"... Of course, the test for hiring "Geometric Shapes" includes many tasks, and it makes no sense to learn them by heart, but if you solve dozens or hundreds of such tasks beforehand, it will be easier for the applicant on real testing. The main thing is that the available examples are diverse, and the person understands on what principle the tasks are composed, how the sequences are built.
"Abstraction"... A variety of abstract figures, both from painting and from "jokes", of which there are many on the Internet, will help in the preparation. It is important to teach the brain to recognize other information hidden under the layer, and such experience, skill can be acquired only through constant practice.
Collectionsfrom the Internet. Since the Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians faced newfangled Western-style tests, examples of such tasks have appeared on the Internet. Usually, these were single tasks that applicants wrote down from memory, but later specialized collections appeared, where relevant information is presented. Before buying test books, you should study the reviews about them, since sometimes sellers are cunning and give outdated examples or problems, much easier than they are found in interviews.
In principle, the applicant before testing, or rather, before applying for a vacancy, must study everything there is about this company, especially in terms of selection and testing. There are specialized forums where “colleagues” share their successes or failures, it doesn't matter, the main thing is that you can find out unique information.
Geometric tests when applying for a job are quite difficult for an unprepared person, even if he is an intellectual, but practice, solving many examples will help to successfully cope with the task.
Logic tests can be of interest to those who want to know the depth of their own logical thinking, explore their way of thinking and, of course, determine the level of their abilities for logic.
And here the most interesting thing is revealed - not everyone is able to "correctly" pass these very logical tests. Therefore, this instruction appeared for the use of tests to determine logical thinking, a kind of advice for passing them.
How to pass logic tests
In a business such as passing logic tests, it is important to remember that too long a delay on one task is a sign that something is wrong with logical thinking or, alternatively, willingly to pass logic tests.
Most of the tasks in extensive test collections, such as G. Eysenck, are solved with a snap, if you show even a drop of perseverance. It should be remembered that the further from the beginning, the more difficult the tasks.
In addition, for the information of perfectionists, no one is able to complete all tasks in half an hour. But each will solve at least some of them.
The answer to the task can be numerical, alphabetic or verbal. Sometimes there are several options, sometimes you need to give an exact answer. It is not worth writing at random, but if some idea still dawns on the horizon of your consciousness, it is better to write it down, so to speak, just in case.
The test does not contain tricky questions, but it doesn’t hurt to consider several ways to solve the problem before you, in the face of a problem. Before starting, you should understand the essence of the proposed task and make sure that you understood it correctly, otherwise you can only waste time by going down the wrong path, deciding not quite what is in front of you.
However, as elsewhere, there are pitfalls here, which are hidden, however, not in the tasks themselves, but in internal factors that relate to general psychology rather than formal logic.
Influence of giftedness on logical thinking
This is giftedness, and, as you know, it can be different - you just want to add liquid and gaseous, but let's not talk about it.
Different in the sense that similar people, people with giftedness in some area may even be not quite interesting solve tasks of a certain type.
Yes, yes, oddly enough, this happens - we know, we watched! .. - and the matter here may lie, both in general moodiness against the background of a teenage child, and later an adult, and in the suspicion that such trifling tasks are underestimated his / her intelligence, which means there is a catch somewhere. Well, it can't be so easy! ..
In addition, gifted people should be perceived in conjunction and the unity of the categories "I want" and "I can"... Because psychologically, of course, any of these factors can get loose.
2 types of behavior in gifted children during testing
There is an instrumental and motivational aspect.... Instrumental consists in the elaboration of the ways of its activity. And motivational characterizes both the subject's attitude to the world as a whole, and to some specific part of it ... And also to his own activity.
TO instrumental aspect refers to:
- Any specific strategies of actions, activities and decisions that are able to provide their own, special, and therefore for him, the qualitative productivity of passing the test.
That is, if in the middle of the test someone begins to laugh, this does not mean that he is hysterical, perhaps he has some strange associations associated with such tasks and questions that can help him in this matter.
- Individualism in the style of activity, expressed in the desire to do everything in one's own way.
This can turn out to be both zilch and some of its own methods for solving the same theorems. But then the main thing is to be able to convey to others that “your own method” is not a mistake.
Otherwise, there are times when, due to a non-standard solution, with the correct answer, the whole action is crossed out and declared incorrect, regardless of the answer. Here, the truth is, the point lies in the fact that sometimes the well-known to the whole world finds teachers to understand the strange paths laid by other people.
- If you are a test subject, in general, the one who passes the test, are able to structure so much all the acquired about the task, and indeed the knowledge in general, then, undoubtedly, you will see the studied subject in the system.
And this is already something capable of providing such a formidable help, in extreme cases, psychological support in the face of confidence that you will succeed, proceeding from the knowledge that you have such ... strangely enough knowledge. Here “I know that I don’t know anything” will not work. Here such a philosophy will rather show the lack of confidence in their own abilities.
- There are also special types-rates of learning, which consist both in a high rate and ease of assimilation of information, and in a slow comprehension, however, with it, sufficient changes in the structure of knowledge, ideas or skills are possible.
However, it should be understood that a broad erudition can slow down the speed of solving problems. Here the problem lies either in the unsystematic nature of knowledge and the inability of the subject to connect them into one, or in the inability to choose any option, with an apparent equivalence-probability scrolled by the consciousness of answers. It also happens that the question-task is formulated in such a way that the subject finds another possible correct answer that was not provided for by the formal test. But it also happens! .. A rarity, of course, but it should be taken into account.
Moving on to motivational aspects behavior of gifted children, both large (adults) and small (those who are really children). And they are characterized by the following features:
- Hypersensitivity to any aspects of reality (all sorts of signs there, both their own, almost NLPishnye anchors, and generally accepted, sounds, colors, technical devices, plants, etc.), or to certain forms of their own activity.
- A large share of immersion in a specific topic.
- Excessive need for knowledge. Bringing it to the point of absurdity, until I have read the entire test, I will not start the task.
- Rejection of the standard of the task and preference for any paradoxes.
- Increased self-criticism while striving for the best, most complete performance, such as "" or "Mr. Ideal."
All this is capable of both slowing down and facilitating the decision ...
Examples of logical graphical tests
And now a bonus for those who have read the article on logical tests to the end, but did not solve the problem in the very first picture, where the logical test for preschoolers is located.
9/10 of their kids 5-6 years old coped with the task with a bang. The bus heads to the left as the doors are not visible. For some reason, it seems to me that half of the current confused adult population with a swoop will not solve this childish logical puzzle ...
The test consists of 30 items. Each item looks like:
Condition
a. first consequence
b. second consequence
c. third consequence
A "condition" is a condition of a problem, some circumstances that are considered previously somehow proven and always true.
"Consequence" is a logical consequence of a condition. Of the three corollaries, one and only one is correct. Your task is to test your ability to separate the right logical consequences from the wrong ones.
The test does not require special mathematical knowledge. All words in the test should be interpreted as it is done in ordinary everyday Russian, but not as in mathematics or any other special area. All words in the test should be interpreted literally, no metaphors or hints are provided in the test.
In the test, you may find unfamiliar words such as "kuzdra". These words are intended to assess your logical thinking ability, separating it from your other knowledge about the world around you. Consider that these words can mean anything you want, but so that the phrase in the condition is truthful in meaning. For example, if it is written that "kuzdra is running", it means that kuzdra really knows how to run and, apparently, has legs or legs, for example, it can be a person, an animal or a walking mechanism :)
Sometimes in the test there are words and expressions that are opposite in meaning, for example, "can" and "can not", "big" and "small", etc. In all such cases, it is assumed that intermediate options ") can, but poorly", "average") are not considered.
You have typed ...26-30 points:
Your logical thinking is well developed. If you make mistakes in reasoning, it is mainly by chance or from fatigue, but not because of inability. However, remember that good things can always be improved - if, of course, you need them.
20-25 points:
Your logical thinking is well developed. However, you can make mistakes in substandard or confusing cases. Having received any conclusion as a result of reasoning, do not rush to take it for truth. Make it a rule to double-check your conclusions, look for errors and weak points in them. Do not be surprised, do not be indignant if you are being corrected: perhaps for the cause.
14-19 points:
Option 1.
You didn't have the patience to go through the entire test, you did it only partially, and the remaining items were chosen at random.
Option 2.
Your logical thinking is undeveloped. If you try to talk publicly, then it is quite possible that you will be ridiculed. You will have to turn to other strengths of your personality if you want to convince someone of something or learn something. However, you may not be completely hopeless if you try to learn some more.
6-13 points:
Option 1.
You passed the test by poking points at random.
Option 2.
You have no logical thinking at all. The result you get can be obtained by simply poking at random. Do not try to "reason logically", especially in public. You may be mistaken for a madman.
3-5 points:
You didn't want to take the test.
1-2 points:
Your logical thinking is well developed. If you make mistakes in reasoning, it is mainly by chance or from fatigue, but not because of inability. However, remember that good things can always be improved - if, of course, you need them. In this case, you decided to show off and answer the questions intentionally wrong.