Predict Performance with Renowned Cognitive Ability Tests
Achieve better insights into your future hires with cognitive ability tests. Focusing on an individual’s reasoning, learning abilities, and general intelligence, these tools can help you gauge a candidate's likely performance, academic ability, and aptitude for training. Discover how you can select candidates headed for success with our range of tools.
Our Cognitive Ability Assessments
Why Use Cognitive Ability Tests?
As a HR professional, adding cognitive ability tests into your recruitment process provides essential insights that improve your talent strategy.
Reducing staff turnover
Comprised of numerical, verbal, and non-verbal tests our cognitive tools reduce bias and improve engagement, HR professionals can use the results to select candidates with a high potential to perform and develop.
Predicting performance and potential
Strengthen your decision-making process, our cognitive ability tests can help you identify skills sought after by organisations – skills essential for problem-solving, complex decision-making, abstract thinking, and numerical skills.
Reducing the risk of a ‘bad hire’
On average, a 'bad hire' costs companies 30% of each hire's annual salary. Unbiased reliable data and engaging tools improve the candidate's experience and guide your decision making.
Efficient selection
Cognitive ability tests combined with personality tests can give organisations a full picture of their potential candidates. Pinpoint suitable candidates immediately, guide interview questions and make your recruitment process more efficient.

"The advantage of a battery of cognitive abilities is that it can adjust according to different situations, the number and type of tests: verbal, numerical, spatial, etc. with the same test ergonomics. The DAT™ Next Generation...can be supplemented by the BMCT II (mechanical reasoning), which allows it to adapt to recruitment roles as varied as manufacturing, logistics, legal, sales or communication...”
Christelle Cadoret, Occupational Psychologist Consultant, collaborator of Pearson TalentLens