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What is the Watson Glaser test?
The Watson Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal is a 30-minute assessment of how well you reason with written information: whether you can separate fact from assumption, follow an argument to a sound conclusion, and judge how strong that argument really is.
Law firms use it early on, usually straight after your application. Critical thinking in the Watson Glaser sense is a specific technical skill, and like any technical skill, it develops through practice.
The five question types
Inference
Judge whether an inference drawn from a passage is true, probably true, insufficient data, probably false, or false.
Recognition of Assumptions
Decide whether a statement genuinely takes a given assumption for granted, or goes further than what was said.
Deduction
Decide whether a conclusion necessarily follows from the premises alone, with no outside knowledge.
Interpretation
Decide whether a conclusion follows beyond reasonable doubt from a short passage.
Evaluation of Arguments
Decide whether an argument is strong and directly relevant, or weak and trivial.
How it's scored
Your raw score is simply the number of correct answers, usually reported as a percentile against other candidates. There is no official pass mark. Firms set their own, and for competitive schemes it often sits around the 75th percentile.
Speed matters too: unanswered questions score nothing, so working at a steady pace is part of doing well.
What our practice gives you
Every question type
Practise all five sections before you sit the real thing.
Full-length timed mocks
Timed conditions, as many times as you want.
A worked answer for every question
Right or wrong, you see exactly why the answer is what it is.
Speed drills
Build pace without losing accuracy under time pressure.
A fresh set every attempt
Questions are drawn at random, so no two goes are the same.
Your scores tracked
Average and best scores kept as you go, so you can see progress.