Pass the Reasoning Tests

Pass the reasoning tests without a thousand-page question bank.

Every European Union competition starts with the same hurdle: Verbal, Numerical and Abstract Reasoning tests against a clock. Most candidates prepare by doing hundreds of questions and hoping that speed will come. This pocket guide takes a different route. It teaches you how the questions are built, so you can spot the trap before it catches you.

Inside you will find:

• A spec card that turns the rules of your own notice of competition into one page: time per question, pass marks, and which tests count for ranking. The book works for any competition run by the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO), including AD and AST profiles and selections for contract staff.
• Verbal Reasoning: the 16 traps that question writers use, from Scope and Certainty to Time shift and Wrong subject, each with a quick check you can run in seconds.
• Numerical Reasoning: every formula you need, grouped into eight sets (percentages, ratios, averages, growth, rates, money, chance and estimation), plus the 14 most common calculation traps.
• Abstract Reasoning: the 16 rule families behind the series, with a drawn exercise for each one and practice items that combine two or three rules.
• A pass-mark strategy for tests that only need to be passed, and a checklist for test day.
• An error log that gives every mistake a name, with a worked two-week example showing how the log decides what you practise next.
• Build your own exercises: step-by-step recipes for writing new items in all three tests, so you never run out of practice material.
• A full mock test with 40 items, answers and an explanation for every wrong option.

Short, practical, and written in plain English, without abbreviations or jargon. Everything works from the printed page: no website, app or account is needed.

This book is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the European Personnel Selection Office or any European Union institution.