Assess critical employability skills with the Verbal Ability Assessment

The Mercer | Mettl Verbal Ability Test is a cognitive ability assessment that evaluates candidates on comprehension, which is the ability to analyze and understand written and verbal information, and grammar, referring to the ability to construct proper and grammatically correct sentences and vocabulary, meaning the ability to use suitable words to express ideas and thoughts accurately. 

What is the importance of the Verbal Ability Test?

Candidates with good verbal ability can express ideas and thoughts using proper words and sentence structure and grasp English grammar well. Moreover, such candidates can communicate clear messages in a business environment. Identifying, screening and onboarding eligible candidates in the recruitment process becomes easy with the Mercer | Mettl's Online Verbal Ability Test.  

How can a Verbal Ability Test help you hire?

Mercer | Mettl's Verbal Ability Test helps employers find suitable candidates hassle-free and make unbiased hiring decisions. It reduces the administrative burden of conducting assessments at scale, helping find candidates with strong verbal reasoning skills. Employers can conduct assessments in a secure, controlled environment with features such as limited system access, webcam proctoring, and window violation. The test result report provides valuable insights into the applicant's performance, which is vital in making objective hiring decisions.  

What is inside this Verbal Ability Test?

This test contains thirty questions to be completed within thirty minutes. This test is used to employ freshers with zero to a year of experience to assess across job roles and industries.  

What skills does the Verbal Ability Test cover?

• Reading, comprehension, para jumbles, sentence formation: It measures the ability to read, process, retain and synthesize large amounts of written information and quickly comprehend large pieces of written texts.  

What roles can you assess when using the Verbal Ability Test?

• Graduates/undergraduate trainees
• Entry-level profiles across industries

Sample questions and answers for the Verbal Ability Test

1. Which of the following means 'To keep one's temper'?  

1. To become hungry  

2. To be in a good mood  

3. To be aloof from  

4. None of these  

Answer- b. To be in a good mood  

  

2. This movie is directed by … foreign writer.  

1. A  

2. An  

3. The  

4. no article  

Answer- a. a  

  

3. God made … land, but man made … town  

1. a/the  

2. a/a  

3. the/the  

4. no article  

Answer- c. the/the  

  

4. Which of the following means 'That which cannot be corrected'?  

1. Unintelligible  

2. Indelible  

3. Illegible  

4. Incorrigible  

Answer- d.  Incorrigible  

  

5. Even if it rains, I shall come, which means ......  

1. if I come, it will not rain  

2. if it rains, I shall not come  

3. I will certainly come whether it rains or not  

4. whenever there is rain, I shall come  

Answer- c. I will certainly come whether it rains or not