This will last 30 minutes – dealing with various forms of information, inferring relationships, making informed judgements, and deciding on appropriate responses in situations of complexity and ambiguity. Applicants will be given a single scenario followed by 26 items containing information related to that scenario from which they will have to interpret the correct answer. The judgements cannot be based on logical deduction alone and may be ambiguous and complex. This simulates real world scenarios where decisions cannot always be made based on straightforward information.

Example: Counter-Intelligence Codes

Question 1:
Examine the following coded message:
16, 03, 04

A: The operation is delayed due to sun and rain
B: The operation is delayed due to sun
C: The operation is delayed due to rain
D: Delay the operation until it is dry
E: Delay operation rainbow

Question 2:
Examine the following coded message:
06, 09, 11

A: The public building is safe tonight
B: The public building is dangerous
C: People in the cinema are very safe tonight
D: People in the building are in extreme danger today
E: People in the cinema are in extreme danger tonight

Answers:
1: E (words are ‘delay’, ‘operation’, ‘sun’, ‘rain’ – option A doesn’t make sense, options B and C miss words out, D introduces the word dry which is not included, in E sun and rain combine to make rainbow)
2: E (words are ‘public’, ‘building’, ‘increase (safe opposite)’, tonight’ –option A doesn’t convert safe into its opposite – dangerous, option B misses out ‘tonight’, option C again uses safe, option D introduces ‘today’ which is wrong, in E cinema is a public building)