AstraZeneca early talent · SHL general ability test

Practice tests for AstraZeneca's SHL online assessment.

The general ability part of the online assessment, which applicants call G+. Practise it in the format of SHL Verify Interactive G+ (General Ability): numerical, deductive and inductive questions, interactive and against the clock.

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The right format, the right interface, the right difficulty.

The format

Numerical, deductive and inductive reasoning. Those are the three abilities SHL's general ability test scores, and the three grades AstraZeneca applicants have reported. Every test here has all three.

The interface

Applicants in the 2026 cycle described interactive questions. Here you drag a point to a value, resize the bars of a chart, pick dates on a calendar and rank people from clues. Built for applicants to the 2027 intake.

The difficulty

Practice that is far harder or far easier than the real thing teaches the wrong pace. Current graduates on AstraZeneca's graduate programmes have looked through our free test and confirmed it matches the assessment they sat, in format and in difficulty. One of them put it simply: it “looks pretty identical”.

One part of the online assessment. The other part asks you to choose the statements most like you. We sell no practice for that part: it asks who you are, and the useful preparation is reading AstraZeneca's values. Why we leave it alone.

Is this your assessment?

Look at the email. If it mentions SHL, general ability, G+, or numerical, deductive and inductive reasoning, this is the practice for it, whichever programme you applied to.

Graduate, industrial placement, internship and apprenticeship applicants have all reported an SHL assessment. What each programme is sent is AstraZeneca's decision, so your own invitation has the final word. What applicants report, in full.

SHL, or Talent Central
The provider applicants have named in every cycle we have reports for, back to 2023.
General ability, or G+
SHL Verify Interactive G+ is SHL's interactive general ability test. Applicants call the reasoning part of AstraZeneca's assessment G+.
Numerical, deductive and inductive reasoning
The three abilities SHL's general ability test scores, and the three grades AstraZeneca applicants reported, one for each. Every test here has eight of each.
Calculator, pen and paper
Numerical questions and timetables. Applicants single out the calendar questions as the hardest under the clock.

Your standing

See where your score lands.

A raw score says little by itself. In the 2025 cycle, AstraZeneca applicants were given a letter grade for each reasoning type, and one reported being told by AstraZeneca that their results were above the threshold. Nobody outside the process knows where that threshold sits.

What you can know is how your score compares. Every timed test you sit here is placed against a pool of 938 timed attempts on record, test by test, the moment you submit. Sit the free test and you can see that your standing is ready. Premium shows you the number, on every test, every time.

Measured against attempts at this practice test. It is a practice benchmark and says nothing about where AstraZeneca sets its threshold.

Our full-length practice test

Questions
24
Time
36 min
Pace
90 sec
Format
Interactive

This is the format SHL publishes for SHL Verify Interactive G+, its interactive general ability test: up to 24 questions in 36 minutes, scored on numerical, deductive and inductive reasoning. Ours has eight questions of each, at SHL's pace of ninety seconds a question. AstraZeneca does not publish the length of its own assessment, so check your invitation for the time you will have. See what is reported, and by whom.

Interactive questions, the way applicants describe them.

Applicants in the 2026 cycle described the reasoning questions as interactive, the format of SHL Verify Interactive G+. Here that means you answer by doing: drag a point to a value, resize the bars of a chart, adjust a pie chart to a described split, pick dates on a calendar, fit tasks into a day, rank people from a set of clues, complete a pattern. Multiple-choice practice trains none of that, and every question here is interactive. Try one below.

Interactive question · live · drag each point to its valueLive
Numerical Reasoning · Line Chart

Drag each point to plot the completion rate for that team.

TeamStaffCompleted
Team A200150
Team B18054
Team C240216
Team D16096
Team E300210
0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%Team A20%Team B20%Team C20%Team D20%Team E20%

All points placed. Drag to adjust, or use ↑/↓ when focused.

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Common questions

Is this the right practice for the AstraZeneca online assessment?

If your invitation mentions SHL, a general ability test or G+, this is the practice for it: numerical, deductive and inductive questions in an interactive format, against the clock. Current graduates on AstraZeneca's graduate programmes have looked through our free test and confirmed it matches the assessment they sat, in format and in difficulty. One of them put it simply: it “looks pretty identical”. The first full test is free, so you can compare it with your own invitation before you pay anything.

Is this the SHL Verify Interactive G+ test?

SHL Verify Interactive G+ is SHL's interactive general ability test. It scores three abilities: numerical, deductive and inductive reasoning. AstraZeneca applicants call the reasoning part of their assessment G+, and in earlier cycles they received a grade for each of those three abilities. Our tests follow SHL's published format for it: 24 interactive questions in 36 minutes, eight of each kind. AstraZeneca itself does not name the product it uses.

Is this the whole AstraZeneca online assessment?

No. It is the reasoning part. Applicants also describe a behavioural part in the same assessment, where you choose the statements most like you, with no time limit. In earlier cycles that part was a situational judgement test reported as low, medium or high, and AstraZeneca's apprenticeship process still names one. We sell no practice for it.

Why is there no practice for the situational judgement or personality part?

Because it asks who you are. Applicants describe picking the statements that sound most like them, and say there is little to prepare. AstraZeneca publishes five values: We follow the science, We put patients first, We play to win, We do the right thing, and We are entrepreneurial. Read them, think about how you work, and answer honestly and consistently. The reasoning part is the one that rewards practice, so that is the part we built.

Are these the real questions?

No, and nobody outside the process has them. What transfers is the format: the kinds of interactive question applicants describe, answered against a clock, with no going back to an earlier question.

Is the real test 24 questions in 36 minutes?

Those are the figures SHL publishes for SHL Verify Interactive G+, its interactive general ability test, and every full test here follows them: ninety seconds a question. AstraZeneca does not publish the length of its own assessment, so your invitation gives the time you will have.

Are the questions interactive?

Applicants in the 2026 cycle described the reasoning questions as interactive, the format of SHL Verify Interactive G+, and every question here is interactive: you drag, adjust and click to build your answer, against the clock.

Which AstraZeneca programmes is this for?

Applicants to graduate programmes in the UK and Sweden, industrial placements, summer internships and apprenticeships have all reported an SHL assessment. The graduate reports cover R&D bioscience and chemistry, data science and AI, pharmaceutical technology and development, and operations. What you are sent depends on your programme and the year, so your invitation is the last word.

Does a high score get me to the assessment centre?

A high score alone does not. In the 2025 cycle, applicants with three A grades reported being rejected, and an applicant with three C grades was invited. One applicant reported being told by AstraZeneca that their results were above the threshold for its programmes, so a threshold exists and a low result can rule you out. Beyond that, applicants describe a decision that weighs the whole application.

Can I have a refund if my assessment turns out to be different?

No. AstraZeneca decides which assessment each applicant is sent and can change it between programmes and years, so nobody outside the company can promise what yours will contain. That is why the first full test is free and needs no card: sit it, compare it with your invitation, and buy only if it is what you need. The refund terms are set out in full in our Terms of Service.

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AstraZeneca SHL Prep is an independent practice platform. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to AstraZeneca PLC, any company in the AstraZeneca group, or SHL Group. Nothing here is the real assessment, and no result here predicts your result with AstraZeneca. Always follow the instructions in your own invitation.