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Watson Glaser Critical Thinking Online Practice Test Questions & Answers

WHAT IS THE WATSON GLASER TEST?

The Watson Glaser test is one of many assessments used to evaluate candidates’ critical thinking skills. The critical thinking test (also known as the critical thinking appraisal) is the most popular psychometric test for assessing the critical thinking skills of applicants. So, if you need to take a critical thinking test as part of your application process, you’ll probably be sitting the Watson Glaser test.

As previously mentioned, the test is designed to test critical thinking skills. We’ll get onto what exactly critical thinking is, but first it’s important to take a quick look at what the test is measuring. Here are the skills that the Watson Glaser critical thinking appraisal evaluates:

  • The ability to make accurate inferences;
  • The ability to identify assumptions being made;
  • The ability to make deductions based on text and then come to conclusions;
  • The ability to interpret and evaluate arguments.
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The test is a 30-minute long assessment, and contains around 40 questions. If you’re expected to pass a critical thinking test, remember that it might not specifically be the Watson Glaser appraisal. Therefore, the time limit and number of questions in your test might differ.

Finally, there’s no set material that you need to learn for the test. By this, we mean that you won’t need to revise a case study or enter with prior knowledge of the role you’re applying for any wider knowledge about the working world. The critical thinking test isn’t concerned with that – it cares about your ability to work with what you’re given in order to come to logical conclusions. Therefore, you’ll be given all the information you need to have some understanding of every question. What you need to study is critical thinking itself.

WHAT IS CRITICAL THINKING?

Have you ever been in a debate with someone about something, and they’ve said something that sounds dubious? Perhaps they made a claim and failed to provide evidence to support it, or they shot down your argument for reasons that didn’t seem relevant. If you picked up on either of these, then you might have an eye (or ear!) for critical thinking.

In short, critical thinking is the activity of studying arguments, the ideas that they’re made up of, and the logic that binds them together. When partaking in critical thinking, you’re concerned with the structure of arguments, and whether they follow the conventions of argument. If an argument follows these rules, then it’s usually considered to be a strong argument. However, if an argument sounds suspicious, imprecise, or poorly supported, then you’ll need to figure out why and identify it. This is the role of the critical thinker both during debates and everyday life.

Critical thinkers need to be on the lookout for the following errors made in argument:

  • Formal logical fallacies (i.e. poorly constructed arguments);
  • Informal logical fallacies (e.g. appeals to emotion, appeals to authority);
  • Leaps in logic which don’t follow from one to another.

Critical thinking is a valuable skill in any walk of life, and is highly valued by employers. This is because critical thinking skills demonstrates that individuals are committed to looking at situations logically, carefully interpreting evidence, and following arguments to the most well-informed conclusion. This is useful in numerous careers and positions. Essentially, any job that is evidence-based will make good use of critical thinking skills. Therefore, it’s in your employer’s best interests to ensure that candidates are capable of thinking critically.

CRITICAL THINKING QUESTION TYPES

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INFERENCES

When someone infers something, or makes an inference, then they are coming to a conclusion which is based on evidence. Logic (whether inductive or deductive) is applied to this evidence, which in turn brings the individual to their conclusion.

ASSUMPTIONS

An assumption is a claim that is accepted as the truth without sufficient evidence. These are an issue for critical thinkers because, as a rule, claims made without factual evidence are unhelpful and can be misleading.

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DEDUCTIONS

A deduction is a conclusion which is reached logically by examining premises. In fact, a deduction only uses its premises in order to reach a conclusion.

INTERPRETATIONS

An interpretation is a conclusion made from carefully evaluating data, and figuring out what information logically follows from it. We make interpretations every day when going about our lives.

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EVALUATION OF ARGUMENTS

Along with the aforementioned skills that a critical thinker needs to possess, it’s important to be able to evaluate arguments in a more general sense. Critical thinkers need to be able to figure out how strong an argument is by comparing it to the information it’s based on.

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For each of the following questions, decide whether if the arguments are strong (‘Strong Argument’) or weak (‘Weak Argument’).

ASSUMPTION QUESTION 01

Should businesses in London ensure that wages match the living wage for staff living in the city?

Argument 1: No – staff can live outside of London and commute into the city to work.

Argument 2: Yes – the alternative would be to force staff to commute, which can lead to increased stress and therefore reduced productivity.

Argument 3: No – if businesses have to pay more for their staff to live where they want, they could end up having to pay for other luxuries such as private health care.

Do schools have an obligation to make sure that students study at least one of the sciences at A-Level? 

Argument 1: Yes – there’s a demand for people experienced in the core sciences in the workplace, so making students take at least one science subject will increase their job prospects. Since schools should prepare students for the real world, they have an obligation to get them on the right track for a good career.

Argument 2: No – it isn’t the school’s responsibility to decide exactly which subjects students choose. Pupils are free to choose the subjects that they want to take, but should be made aware of the possible benefits of studying one of the sciences at A-Level.

Argument 3: No – none of the A-Level students that I’ve met have wanted to do science.

The amount of organised crime in major cities has been increasing year on year. The number of armed police officers has also increased year on year. The government is now debating spending money on a new specialised taskforce for organised crime. A number of ex-chiefs of police have commented positively on this. Is this the correct decision?

Argument 1: No – we can see from the statistics that the increase in number of armed police officers is rising at the same time as the amount of organised crime. A new taskforce would just add to the problem rather than solve it.

Argument 2: Yes – ex-chiefs of police think that it’s a good idea to do it.

Argument 3: Yes – a specialised taskforce could be completely devoted to the problem of organised crime. In the long-term, this might mean that the government could potentially spend less money on armed police, which has the added benefit of having less police officers with firearms in cities.

Out of all the major businesses in London, 90% of them disclose their diversity statistics in an annual report. The rest of the firms are being pressured by investors who believe that a greater focus on diversity would increase annual profit. Should these remaining companies disclose their diversity data?

Argument 1: Yes – everyone else is doing it, so they should too.

Argument 2: Yes – the investors think it’s a good idea, and if the companies refuse to comply with their suggestions, the investors might pull funds from them.

Argument 3: No – increasing diversity isn’t something that companies should have to do since it’s not normal for there to be total equality in terms of ethnicity and gender.

Should nurses trained in the UK, and funded by the NHS, be required to work for a certain period of time within the UK public sector before being allowed to work in the private sector or overseas?

Argument 1: Yes – the NHS funds many of these nurses through training, so they should have to give back for a fixed period of time. This further experience would benefit them as well.

Argument 2: No – this denies them of their freedom where to work. They might as well be in a work camp.

Argument 3: Yes – I find it ridiculous that taxpayers’ money is spent on training these nurses, only for them to go overseas.

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