Please read all instructions very carefully before you begin.
This is the PAC – Baseline IT Aptitude Assessment.
It is composed of 45 questions divided into 6 sections used to evaluate your fundamental knowledge and skills in Mathematics, IT Reasoning, English (Reading Comprehension and Sentence Structure), Attention to Detail and Logic Diagramming.
You will have 40 minutes to complete this assessment. Please note that once you have completed a question you will NOT be able to return to it in order to make changes.
All questions carry equal points and no points will be deducted for wrong answers.
Assessment Breakdown
Section Time Questions
Math Reasoning 10 10
Sentence Structure 5 10
IT Reasoning 5 5
Reading Comprehension 7 5
Attention to Detail 5 10
Logic Diagramming 8 5
Assessment Totals 40 Minutes 45 Questions
If you would like to take a break, you may do so at any time and for any length, between sections or assessments. When you do choose to take a break, your progress will be automatically resumed upon your return.
Assessment: Baseline IT Aptitude
Section Purpose
The purpose of this section is to test your basic Math skills.
Section Instructions
This is the Math Reasoning section. It is designed to test your ability to understand and implement mathematical principles within concrete circumstances.
Use the information presented in each question to solve the problem.
You will have 10 minutes to complete the 10 questions in this section.
If you would like to take a break, please do so now. Clicking the button below will start your assessment.
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Math Reasoning
The average annual contribution per donor to a charity is $150. At the end of every year, the charity deposits the amount in a bank which offers 10% interest annually. For the first year there are 100 contributors. If the number of contributors rises by 10 every year and the average contribution rises by $20 every year, then what is the amount saved by the charity at the end of 3 years?

$51,620

$65,120

$61,520

$56,120
Question Number 2
A sports dealer bought 200 basketballs at a total price of $700. If 10% were found to be defective, 20% were to be donated to local charities, and 10% were to be sold at a discounted price of $3.00, at what price should the rest be sold if the dealer has to make an overall profit of 20%?

$5.50

$6.50

$6.00

$7.00
The distance between 2 cities is 1600 kilometers (km). Bill drove at 50 km per hour and rested for an hour every four hours. What was his approximate average speed including stoppage time?

45 km/hr

43 km/hr

40 km/hr

41 km/hr
A grocer uses a false weight in order to sell an item at 25% additional profit, but is in turn underpaid by a customer by 20%. What is the net impact of this transaction for the grocer?

5% loss

There is no impact

5% profit

Cannot be determined
Andy is 25% more efficient than Barry who is 20% more efficient than Colin. Barry takes 12 days more than Andy to complete a project if either works alone. If Colin works alone on that project for 36 days and Andy then works alone on it for 16 days, then how many days would Barry working alone take to complete it?

10

16

8

12
(5x+10)/(x+2) = (3x-10)/(2x+5), then what is x?

-5

5

0

-2

-2 or -5
The price of an article was first marked down by one-third and then marked up by one-third. If the final price of the article is $400, what was the original price of the article?

$400

$420

$300

$450
The price of an article was first marked down by one-third and then marked up by one-third. If the final price of the article is $400, what was the original price of the article?

$400

$420

$300

$450
What is 134 X 220 in the number system with base 5?

41300

40130

40310

41003

41030
The price of fuel goes up by 20%, so Patty reduces her consumption so that her expenditure on fuel rises by only 8%. By what percentage does she reduce her consumption?

10%

12%

8%

6%
The gross monthly income of two salesmen Alex and Barry are in the ratio 3:4 and their monthly expenditure is in the ratio of 4:5. Find the ratio of their net income (net income = gross income – expenditure) given that Alex’s expenditure is 1/6th of his gross income.

20:25

25:27

20:27

27:20
Sentence Structure
Identify the correct sentence structure
Sentence Structure(这个很简单，我就不整了）就类似与下面这种题目，这是我做的第一个
She was glad she had gotten the immunization, as there was recently a(n) _______ at the school.

plague

case

wave

epidemic
IT Reasoning
Section Purpose
The purpose of this section is to measure your IT Reasoning ability by testing your understanding of abstract Math and Logic concepts.
Section Instructions
This is the IT Reasoning section. It is designed to test your understanding of the principles of logic.
You will be presented with a variety of questions that you must solve using principles of logic.
You will have 5 minutes to complete the 5 questions in this section.
If you would like to take a break, please do so now. Clicking the button below will start your assessment
X sweets are divided by a father among 4 children, such that each child gets as many sweets as his or her age in years. If the difference in age between each of the children from the next younger or older sibling is 2 years and the youngest child is A years old, which of the following represents how many sweets remained after the distribution?

X-12-4A

X-12-A

4*(X-2-A)

X+12-4A
The speed of a boat in still water is S. The speed of the current is C. Which of the following expressions best represents the total time taken by the boat to cover a distance D between two points named A and B, both ways, i.e. with and against the current?

D/2S

2D/S

D/(S+C) + D/(S-C)

(A-B)/(S+C) + (B-A)/(S-C)
The price charged by a tailor per suit is $X. Navy blue suits are charged at 10% extra. The tailor also gives a discount of $Y for each suit in excess of 3 suits, ordered at the same time. If I order 7 suits, 5 of them black and 2 of them navy blue, then what will be the amount of the bill?

7X – 4Y

7.2X – 4Y

7.7X – 4Y

7(X – Y)
There are two bags, the first containing R red marbles and the second containing B blue marbles. From the first bag X marbles are randomly selected and transferred to the second bag, and then from the second bag, Y marbles are randomly selected and transferred to the first bag. After this, the likely number of red marbles in the first bag is:

R-X+XY/(B+X)

R-X+XY(B+X)

R-X+Y

R-X+X/(B+X)