Reading Comprehension
This Reading Comprehension test evaluates candidates’ abilities to read a portion of text and comprehend its contents.
Multiple Choice
10 minutes
Covered skills
- Identifying the main thought of a passage
- Making inferences based on a passage
This Reading Comprehension test evaluates candidates’ abilities to read a portion of text and comprehend its contents. This test helps you identify candidates who can process written information and draw appropriate conclusions using analytical thinking.
This test can be particularly useful for remote teams who communicate primarily in writing.
Reading comprehension goes beyond understanding the words on a page. Effective reading comprehension entails identifying the main idea of a passage, understanding vocabulary in context, making valid inferences from the text, and discerning the author’s purpose. Candidates must use analytical thinking and analytical reasoning skills to identify the correct answers.
To answer the questions in the test successfully, candidates must:
- Process what they read
- Understand the meaning of it
- Make connections between the information given and the general context
- Come to meaningful conclusions
The test requires candidates to identify the right answers to the questions in a limited amount of time. Successful candidates can process text and comprehend meaning quickly when reading reports and other written communications from colleagues and collaborators. This is a great test to include to check candidates' analytical skills.
