Morgan Stanley Online Reasoning Qualifications

Thanks for the advice, I'll definitely prepare a lot more before the next online reasoning test, I'm just so angry with me for my performance today, especially since I'm doing maths at university..

One more thing, there was a question today that I thought it was rather tricky and I am still unsure of the correct answer, maybe you could help me. So there was some data with percentages of employers at company X in various departments, including dept. Y, during various years; and the question was to say during which 2 consecutive years there was the max increase in no. of employers in dept. Y. In terms of percentages, the max increase was of 5% one year, however we didn't know the actual no. of employees each year. So should I have assumed the no. of employees remained the same, or should I have chosen "cannot say"?

Thanks a lot!

Assuming I understood what you're asking, the answer is cannot say. Example: Assume there's only 2 departments, X and Y. In 2005, 98% of the employees were in department X and the remaining 2% of the employees were in department Y. In 2006, 96% of the employees were in department X and the remaining 4% of the employees were in department Y. In 2005 there were 100 total employees, and in 2006 there were 1000 total employees. Department X then increased by 862 employees while Department Y only increased by 38 employees.

Thanks, I also chose "cannot say" but wasn't sure, it just sounded tricky to me. Actually this wasn't the only question in the test of this kind, but fortunately I spotted the others.

Anyways, do you think that there is going to be another reasoning test at the assessment center? Cause I plan to prove (if I am offered the chance) this was rather a mistake.

Cut your losses, you' probably didn't manage a 100% on those 13-14 Qs. You didn't prepare and you were def too slow. I had to guess 2 Qs and didn't know the answer to the first one and I thought that was pretty bad. Look on the bright side, at least you (hopefully) will have learnt from this. I've done the SHL and kenexa test a billion times and yet I still managed to fail LZ/GHL/RS/EVC's LDN test even though I passed it for the same company before for an internship. Was I mad? Yes. Did I work on it? I'll let you guess my answer. Point is, stop makinge excuses and start working on it. Nobody, no matter how often you'll read it, manages to get a 100% on these tests without at least taking a prep test and getting comfortable with the format. It's just stupid if you don't.

EDIT: And yeah, the answer was "Cannot say". Does anybody remember what the answer was for the first one? I knew it was a tricky one since I wasn't able to find an answer after the first 20 seconds so I just skipped it. Appreciate any info.

Thanks a lot guys for all the feedback/suggestions, I've practised more lately and in my last two numerical tests I finished all questions in time, hopefully with a conversion rate of at least 80 - 85%.

There is one question I encountered in my last test and I am really curious about the answer, maybe some of you know what I'm talking about. So there is a table with average speed of drivers across the city (central/inner/outer zone), in different years, depending on the time (morning/afternoon/evening), and was asked to calculate the average speed of someone driving in a particular year, at a particular time, across the entire city.

I chose "cannot say", thinking that even if driver X goes all around the city, we don't know whether he has driven the same amount of time in each zone. Do you think this is the correct answer? And I also took the average speed and got 28.13, while the closest answers were 28 and 28.4, so this kind of confirmed my thoughts.

You're right

I took the test about three weeks ago and was just contacted by a regional recruiter for a phone interview. Does this mean I "passed" the reasoning test?