Gradtests Reviews 4

scam.. don't fall for it! after completing the tests, it prompts for registration. after linking to google sign-on, it gives a fatal error page. WTH!

They first want you to complete the test and only after completion they request email for sign up. Later, they still do not give you the results of a 'free' test (numerical reasoning in my case) but instead want a yearly subscription payment- total scam.

THE WORST. Totally a scam, save your money.

The website shows a lot of promise but fails in 2 key factors:

1) The Verbal Reasoning tests are just incorrect and have clearly been subject to zero interrogation internally.

For example VR test 3 has several questions relating to whether something occurred at "The turn of the last millennium" - such nomenclature is open to a lot of interpretation - though many would say "the turn of the last millennium" was when the previous 1000 years started (i.e. that millennium's turn, or 999 to 1000). If you mark no for the related questions (because the events occurred in the early 2000s) you get marked incorrect and lambasted in the feedback for it being clear and obvious in the text above.

If you are going to mark people down for whether they interpret "usually" as "not always", you should be a lot more careful with your use of phrases.

2) The Maths results don't give any insight into how to get to an answer quicker (half the battle). All the explanations show the long winded route to an answer, that takes far more than the 40 odd seconds allowed for each question.

For example they will show you a table of shares between two periods, then ask how much return you would get if you invested a set amount of a different currency at the start and end of the period, with a quote exchange rate.

Fast way to work it out - share price change (after/before) * exchange rate change (after/before) * original investment.

GradTests Explanation - take the original currency investments, convert them to share price currency, figure out how many shares you can buy, multiply the new price by the number of shares bought, convert back to original currency.

That isn't helping your customers. If anything you are teaching them how to fail the tests by taking far too long spotting the wood for the trees.