Verbal Reasoning Bachelor
The verbal reasoning test measures your ability to critically analyze written information and draw correct conclusions from it. Candidates read short texts and evaluate subsequent statements as true, false or cannot be determined from the text.
This test evaluates:
- Logical reasoning with language – interpreting facts and implications
- Critical thinking and concentration – distinguishing between what is explicitly stated and what is not
- Accuracy and speed of information processing
Verbal reasoning ability is one of the cognitive skills that is most predictive of general intelligence and future job performance.
Verbal reasoning ability is crucial in roles where:
- Sharp analysis of written information is required
- Accuracy in interpretation has a direct impact
- Candidates must quickly separate main points from details
By including this test in your selection procedure, you gain insight into how someone reasons with language, substantiates decisions, and processes textual information – capabilities that are often decisive for successful performance in a bachelor-level position.
The report displays results on three dimensions:
- Verbal reasoning ability – the number of correct answers converted to a stanine score (1-9), standardized against a representative norm group
- Recognizing Contradictions and Distortions: How well someone critically evaluates statements when the information is incorrect, overly absolute, or biased.
- Assessing the Limits of Evidence: How well someone assesses whether there is sufficient information to make a claim.
- Drawing Valid Conclusions: How well someone uses relevant information to reach accurate conclusions.
- Accuracy – the extent to which the given answers were correct, without penalty points for answers marked as “I don’t know”
- Speed – the time required to complete the test (does not affect the score, but provides additional insight into work pace)
The stanine score allows for objective comparison of candidates with a norm group.
The report is clear, concise, and immediately usable as input for selection and development interviews.
No single test perfectly predicts on its own how someone will function in a job. What you can do is smartly combine tests that each measure something different — so that you gather as much relevant information as possible, without unnecessary overlap or test fatigue. This increases the incremental validity: the added value of a test on top of the others.
Recommended combination with a verbal reasoning test:
- Personality test (MAPS)
→ provides insight into stable behavioral preferences, such as orderliness, conscientiousness, and cooperation.
→ indicates how someone is inclined to act in work situations. - Abstract reasoning test
→ measures logical and analytical thinking with figures and patterns.
→ indicates learning ability and problem-solving thinking outside language context.
Through these combinations, you get a multi-layered and reliable overall picture: from cognitive capabilities to behavioral preferences and practical analysis.
The Verbal Reasoning test provides an objective addition within selection procedures. While interviews often give an impression of communicative skills, this test demonstrates in a standardized way how strong a candidate is in analyzing and interpreting information, and consequently drawing correct conclusions.
Measures critical and logical thinking with language
Objective performance measurement, standardized at bachelor level
Dutch, French & English
Suitable for bachelor education level
Performance-oriented multiple-choice test
12 statements (6 texts with 2 statements each)
Time: maximum 16 minutes
Price per administration: €40




















