Express Cognitive Assessment: Sample Questions | Bryq
Numerical Reasoning
Verbal Reasoning
Logical Reasoning
Attention to Detail
These are four sample questions from Bryq’s Express Cognitive assessment, a short cognitive ability test for hiring across roles. The full assessment covers four skills: numerical reasoning, verbal reasoning, logical reasoning, and attention to detail. The format blends short word problems and passages with image-based puzzles and documents, each with four options and one correct answer.
Numerical Reasoning
Intermediate
Question
A team pays $1,200 a month for 15 software licenses. It adds 5 more licenses at the same price per license, and the supplier then applies a 10% discount to the new monthly total. What is the new monthly cost?
Select your answer
$1,440
$1,600
$1,560
$1,520
WHY IS THIS THE CORRECT ANSWER
Each license costs $1,200 ÷ 15 = $80, so 20 licenses cost $1,600. Taking 10% off gives $1,600 × 0.90 = $1,440. $1,600 skips the discount, $1,560 applies it only to the new licenses, and $1,520 takes off the price of one license instead of 10%.
Verbal Reasoning
Intermediate
Question
“Since the company introduced flexible start times in January, late arrivals have fallen by 40%. Over the same period, the number of meetings scheduled before 9 am has also dropped.”
Which statement is best supported by the passage?
Select your answer
Late arrivals fell after flexible start times began, though fewer early meetings may also have played a part.
Flexible start times caused late arrivals to fall by 40%.
Employees now attend fewer meetings than they did before January.
Flexible start times have improved employee productivity.
WHY IS THIS THE CORRECT ANSWER
The passage shows that late arrivals fell over the same period as two changes, but it doesn’t say which one caused the drop. The second statement stays within what the passage supports. The others claim a cause, extend the drop in early meetings to all meetings, or introduce productivity, which the passage never mentions.
Logical Reasoning
Intermediate
Question
Which shape completes the grid?
Select your answer
A
B
C
D
WHY IS THIS THE CORRECT ANSWER
Each row and each column contains one circle, one square and one triangle, and one white, one grey and one black shape. The missing cell needs the shape and the fill not yet used in both its row and its column, which is a white square.
Attention to Detail
Intermediate
Question
You’re checking a delivery note against the original purchase order. Which line on the delivery note doesn’t match?
Select your answer
Line 4: Printer paper
Line 2: Stapler
Line 6: Whiteboard markers
All lines match
