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SHL Verify Interactive G+ Assessment: Identify the Test and Practice Its Skills
Identify SHL Verify Interactive G+, practice three reasoning skills with worked examples, and understand timing, percentile scores, and common errors.
An invitation that says “SHL assessment” does not tell you enough to choose a practice pack. SHL offers separate reasoning assessments as well as a combined G+ assessment, and an interactive task asks you to enter an answer differently from a conventional multiple-choice question. Practicing the wrong version can leave you comfortable with the mathematics but surprised by the actual task.
This guide focuses on SHL Verify Interactive G+: identifying the product, practicing its three reasoning skills, and reviewing mistakes without inventing a passing score. Official specifications are identified below.
Identify the assessment before choosing a timer
Official facts: SHL’s publicly accessible Interactive G+ factsheet describes a computer-adaptive assessment covering numerical, deductive, and inductive reasoning. It specifies 36 minutes, a maximum of 24 questions, and one sitting. The document carries a 2018 copyright; these are the published product specifications, not a promise about every employer’s invitation. Check the exact assessment name and instructions you receive. SHL Interactive G+ factsheet
Before you start, capture four non-sensitive details for yourself: the complete test name, whether “Interactive” appears, the displayed duration, and any separate assessments listed alongside it. A numerical assessment followed by a personality questionnaire is not automatically G+. Nor does a recruiter’s shorthand establish that every candidate received the same configuration.
If the invitation is ambiguous, ask a focused question: “Could you confirm the assessment’s full product name and whether it is the interactive version?” That is more useful than asking for “the SHL format,” because the answer needs to distinguish a specific product from a supplier.
Preparation inference: use a timer only after identifying the version. Dividing 36 minutes by 24 gives 90 seconds per question as a rough average planning reference. It is not an official per-question allowance, and the maximum question count does not mean every task deserves identical time. A quick pattern may require less reading than a constraint-heavy schedule.
What each reasoning skill requires
Numerical reasoning begins with interpreting the relationship in the data. You may be able to divide accurately and still answer the wrong question if you confuse an increase with a final value, or a percentage of one group with a percentage of the total.
Deductive reasoning starts from stated conditions. Your job is to determine what follows, what is impossible, or which arrangement satisfies all the rules. Familiarity with a real workplace does not allow you to add an unstated scheduling convention. “Before” and “immediately before” impose different constraints.
Inductive reasoning asks you to identify a rule supported by the examples. A pattern might involve position, count, orientation, shading, or more than one feature. Finding a rule that explains two frames is insufficient if it fails on the third. Check the full sequence before selecting the next state.
These descriptions are preparation guidance aligned with the three domains, not a list of guaranteed question formats. The useful distinction is the reasoning operation: choose a relationship, enforce constraints, or test a pattern. Naming that operation helps you reset when a mixed assessment changes task type.
A numerical exercise: the overall rate is not the average rate
The following dispatch scenario is original practice. It is deliberately small enough that you can inspect the reasoning instead of spending all your attention on arithmetic.
| Team | Planned dispatches | Completed dispatches |
|---|---|---|
| North | 120 | 96 |
| South | 80 | 72 |
Question: What percentage of all planned dispatches was completed?
North completed 96 ÷ 120 = 80%. South completed 72 ÷ 80 = 90%. Averaging those percentages gives 85%, but that treats the teams as equally sized. The question asks about dispatches, so combine the dispatch counts: (96 + 72) ÷ (120 + 80) = 84%.
A useful check is that the combined rate should sit between 80% and 90%, closer to North’s rate because North has more planned dispatches. This does not prove every digit is correct, but it can expose a reversed denominator or an implausible answer.
Now change only the question: “By how many percentage points does South’s completion rate exceed North’s?” The answer becomes 10 percentage points. If the question instead asks how much higher South’s rate is relative to North’s, the calculation is (90 − 80) ÷ 80 = 12.5%. The data stayed fixed; the requested comparison changed.
When reviewing this exercise, do not write only “percentage mistake.” Record whether you selected the wrong population, confused percentage points with relative change, or made an arithmetic error. Those require different repairs. Repeating division exercises will not fix a denominator-reading habit.
A deductive exercise: turn an adjacency rule into a block
Four demonstrations—A, B, C, and D—must occupy four consecutive slots. Each appears exactly once. The rules are:
- A occurs before C.
- B occurs immediately before D.
- C cannot occupy slot four.
Question: Find the valid order.
Treat B and D as a single ordered block, BD. If BD occupies slots one and two, A and C must occupy three and four; A before C would put C in the forbidden fourth slot. If BD occupies two and three, A before C again puts A first and C fourth. Both placements fail.
That leaves BD in slots three and four. A and C take slots one and two, producing A, C, B, D. Every original condition now holds. An exhaustive check of all 24 permutations also gives this single valid ordering; the explanation above shows why it works without brute force.
The common trap is remembering “B before D” but dropping “immediately.” Another is treating “C cannot be fourth” as a preference rather than a hard constraint. Write the smallest representation that preserves the exact rule: A < C, BD, and C ≠ 4 are enough here.
For a follow-up, remove the final restriction. More than one arrangement becomes valid. That changes the task: you can give a valid ordering, but you can no longer claim the answer is unique. In practice, separate “could be true” from “must be true” before you evaluate the options.
An inductive exercise: track two features separately
Consider these four states of an arrow:
| Position in sequence | Direction | Fill |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Up | Open |
| 2 | Right | Filled |
| 3 | Down | Open |
| 4 | Left | Filled |
Question: Under the simplest rule consistent with all four states, what comes next?
Direction rotates clockwise by one quarter-turn. Fill alternates between open and filled. Applying both rules gives Up, Open for state five. An “Up, Filled” option would match direction but fail the fill rule.
This is an original teaching example, not a claim about SHL’s item bank. A finite sequence can admit multiple mathematical continuations; the exercise explicitly asks for the simplest rule consistent with the supplied states. In an actual task, use the instructions and available options rather than inventing an elaborate rule to rescue a preferred answer.
Make a quick feature inventory when a pattern feels opaque: count, position, direction, fill, and relationship between objects. Test a candidate rule against every supplied transition. If it explains only the first transition, keep looking. If a second feature changes independently, track it in a separate column instead of forcing one complicated explanation.
Diagnose the error before adding speed
Use these four labels after a mixed practice set.
| Error label | Example from this practice | Next correction |
|---|---|---|
| Read | Answering a relative increase when asked for percentage points | Underline the requested quantity and comparison base |
| Reason | Allowing a gap between B and D | Represent adjacency as one ordered block |
| Calculate | Adding the dispatch counts incorrectly | Recompute the totals before dividing |
| Enter | Solving for 84% but leaving a control at 85% | Check the displayed final value before submitting |
Do one short mixed set without a speed target, then review the cause of each miss. Repeat with new numbers or changed constraints rather than memorizing the previous answer. Only then add time pressure. This sequence makes the second attempt a test of the corrected method instead of recognition.
Track elapsed time alongside the error label. A fast wrong answer caused by misreading is not progress. A slower correct answer with a clear method may be the starting point for a useful shortcut. If you consistently lose time only when the task type changes, practice alternating domains rather than doing another long block of your strongest one.
Do not infer the adaptive scoring algorithm from whether the next question feels easier. Difficulty is subjective, and the public factsheet does not provide enough information to reverse-engineer a score from your remembered sequence. Candidate anecdotes about reaching a certain question number do not establish a universal pass mark.
Use practice tools without confusing them with the real assessment
SHL maintains an official practice-test entry page. Begin there to orient yourself to the provider’s preparation resources, then follow the instructions associated with your invitation. Do not assume a third-party screenshot is an exact picture of your current interface.
Official context: SHL’s October 2024 release notes describe interface updates to Interactive G+ and related interactive assessments. Older examples can therefore teach a reasoning idea while showing different controls. SHL October 2024 release notes
| Practice question | What to practice |
|---|---|
| Determine Worker Counts from Production Ratios | State the ratio and its units before calculating |
| Schedule Weekly Deployment Windows | Keep every scheduling condition visible |
| Deduce row order from logic clues | Distinguish a possible arrangement from a forced one |
| Find patterns in numeric sequences quickly | Test a proposed pattern against the whole sequence |
| Solve Aptitude Test: Logical, Numerical, Verbal Reasoning | Practice task switching; its verbal content extends beyond the three G+ domains |
Understand the result and prepare your test environment
Official reporting context: SHL’s sample Ability Report describes an overall result and domain results in relation to a comparison group. A percentile is a relative standing, not the percentage of questions answered correctly. The sample report is illustrative; its numbers are neither your expected result nor an employer’s cutoff. SHL sample Ability Report
If an employer shares a result, first identify the scale and comparison group. Do not convert a percentile into a raw number correct or compare it directly with an uncalibrated practice-site percentage. Use any available domain feedback to choose what to review, while recognizing that the employer decides how the assessment fits into its broader process.
Before the actual sitting, read the rules for calculators, notes, navigation, breaks, and permitted assistance. “Unsupervised” does not itself authorize outside help. Use the invitation’s support route for an access issue or accommodation request before starting when possible. If the interface fails, report the observable error and time; do not assume a reload or second attempt is permitted.
Your next useful practice session is small: solve one ratio question, one constraint problem, and one pattern task, then classify every error. Improvement begins when you can explain both the answer and the mistake you are no longer repeating.