ROYAL NAVY RECRUITMENT TEST QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
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ROYAL NAVY RECRUITMENT TEST: PRACTICE TESTS FOR THE ROYAL NAVY SELECTION PROCESS
Learn how to pass your Royal Navy Recruitment Test with this comprehensive NEW testing download guide. Packed full of sample questions, this ultimate guide will guarantee to improve your chances and enhance your performance.
✔ Mechanical Comprehension test questions and answers;
✔ Numerical Reasoning test questions and answers;
✔ Verbal Reasoning test questions and answers;
✔ Insider tips on how to easily pass the Royal Navy recruiting test.
*IMPORTANT UPDATE: The Royal Navy have changed their initial recruitment test from the Recruiting Test to the ‘Defence Aptitude Assessment’. We have a brand new guide for the new test available at the following page, please click here to visit the page.*
The Royal Navy – What they are looking for during the selection
Before we tell you more about how our resource will help you to pass the Royal Navy RT, let’s first recap on what the navy are looking for in successful candidates:
The selection tests to join the Armed Forces are carefully designed in order to assess the key skills, qualities and personality that is required for a challenging, yet deeply rewarding career. It takes a special person to show the correct determination, will-power, fortitude and charisma for a job in the Armed Forces. Ultimately, this career path is not just a profession, it is a life choice. A life choice that you will need to embed into your daily routine.
A job in the royal Navy comes with great responsibility. Responsibilities that not only effect you, but your fellow colleagues, your family, and even your country. You will be responsible for upholding and maintaining security, protection and assistance to:
- Protect and safeguarding procedures are carried out to guard our economy.
- Prevent conflict from arising, particularly overseas.
- Provide security for home and international waters to maintain stability and prosperities of British economy.
- Maintaining a ‘state of readiness’ to protect and fight for our country when required.
- Provides response when disaster strikes in order to aid humanitarian conditions.
In times of conflict, chaos and disruption, the Royal Navy plays a significant role in implementing safeguarding procedures that provides prosperity and stability for British economy. It takes a well-grounded person to understand the extent of challenges that come with a job in the Naval Service.
Considering a career in the Naval Service is the first step of changing your life forever. You need to fully grasp what is required for a person who wishes to pursue a career in the Armed Forces. You should not enter this decision lightly, you need to take the time to form a solid conclusion based on logical reasoning and thought processes.
In order to give you a better understanding of the type of person the Royal Navy is looking for, here are a list of some of the qualities and skills required to join the Armed Forces.
Remember, this list is not extensive. There are many other skills and qualities that recruiters look for in potential employees. Depending on the job position for which are applying, will depend on what skills are valued the most.
THE ROYAL NAVY TEST (RT) CONSISTS OF 4 TIMED MULTIPLE-CHOICE APTITUDE TESTS AS FOLLOWS:
PART 1 – REASONING TEST
Reasoning skills are assessed to determine a candidate’s ability to process information and recognise underlying patterns and configurations amongst a set of words, shapes or sequences.
PART 2 – VERBAL ABILITY
Verbal Ability is a test used to assess a candidate’s ability to recognise relationships between words and sentences.
Typical questions in relation to Verbal Ability include: completing the sentence, rephrasing sentences, grouping words, word discrepancies and so forth. This assessment is used to determine how well a candidate can quickly and effectively work through verbal formats, and demonstrate high levels of literary and verbal understanding.
PART 3 – NUMERICAL REASONING
The Numerical Reasoning part of your Royal Navy Recruit test is to assess a candidate’s ability to make accurate calculations using basic mathematical formulas including:
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Multiplication
- Division
- Percentages
- Decimal
- Fractions
- Algebra
- Area
- Perimeter
- Significant figure
- Graphs and Charts
PART 4 – MECHANICAL COMPREHENSION
Mechanical Comprehension tests are an assessment that measures an individual’s ability to understand mechanical concepts. The tests are usually multiple-choice in nature and present simple, frequently encountered mechanisms and technical situations. The majority of Mechanical Comprehension tests require a working knowledge of basic mechanical operations and the application of physical laws.
THE TESTS AND COMPLETION TIMES
General Reasoning
(30 questions, to be completed in 9 minutes)
Verbal Ability
(30 questions, to be completed in 9 minutes)
Numerical Reasoning
(30 questions, to be completed in 16 minutes)
Mechanical Comprehension
(30 questions, to be completed in 10 minutes)
The only way to prepare for your Royal Navy Recruit test is simply through practising. We have provided you with the ultimate guide that will allow you to practice 100s of sample questions in each specific area of the assessment.
Below, we have illustrated the types of questions that can be found in our guide, which will be similar to those found on your RT assessment. Take the time to look at these examples.
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- Advice and tips included that have been written by a former member of the Armed Forces.
- Up-to-date and relevant for the 2022 selection tests.
- Mechanical comprehension, verbal ability, numerical reasoning and reasoning tests.
Sample Royal Navy RT Questions
To help you get a better understanding of the Royal Navy recruiting test, let’s take a quick look at a few sample questions.
PART 1 – REASONING
Reasoning skills are assessed to determine a candidate’s ability to process information and recognise underlying patterns and configurations amongst a set of words, shapes or sequences.
EXAMPLE
Look at how the figure changes from box 1 to box 2. Apply the same changes in order to get the correct answer.
EXPLANATION
ANSWER = D
PART 2 – VERBAL ABILITY
Verbal Ability is a test used to assess a candidate’s ability to recognise relationships between words and sentences.
Typical questions in relation to Verbal Ability include: completing the sentence, rephrasing sentences, grouping words, word discrepancies and so forth. This assessment is used to determine how well a candidate can quickly and effectively work through verbal formats, and demonstrate high levels of literary and verbal understanding.
EXAMPLE
In the sentence, the word outside the brackets will only go with three of the words inside the brackets in order to make a longer word. Which ONE word will it NOT go with?
EXPLANATION
For these types of questions, you need to determine what words in the answer box fits with the word outside the brackets. Note, for these questions, the word needs to make one complete word i.e. downsize.
ANSWER = A = Out
PART 3 – NUMERICAL REASONING
The Numerical Reasoning part of your Royal Navy Recruit test is to assess a candidate’s ability to make accurate calculations using basic mathematical formulas including:
We suggest that you practice as many different types of mathematical questions as you can prior to your assessment.
EXAMPLE
EXPLANATION
The CROSS looks like a multiplication sign and it tells you which numbers to multiply together.
One arm is saying ‘multiply the 5 by the 5’, and the other arm is saying ‘multiply the 7 by the 3’.
The BOW says ‘multiply the 2 numbers I am pointing at’. That is 7 times 5.
The answer is 35 and it goes underneath the line in the answer.
ANSWER 1 11/35
PART 4 – MECHANICAL COMPREHENSION
Mechanical Comprehension tests are an assessment that measures an individual’s ability to understand mechanical concepts. The tests are usually multiple-choice in nature and present simple, frequently encountered mechanisms and technical situations. The majority of Mechanical Comprehension tests require a working knowledge of basic mechanical operations and the application of physical laws.
EXAMPLE
A lever consists of a bar which is balanced on a fixed point, known as the fulcrum. If you needed to lift the weight, you need to work out how to calculate the force needed.
EXPLANATION
F = (weight x distance from fulcrum to weight) ÷ distance from fulcrum to point where force is being applied.
F = (80 x 9) ÷ 12
F = 720 ÷ 12
F = 60 lbs
ANSWER = 60 lbs
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