Practical Intelligence

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Practical Intelligence Assessment

Test your practical intelligence with our engaging quiz designed to challenge your decision-making skills in real-world situations.

Evaluate your responses across various scenarios and uncover your strengths in:

Problem-solving
Emotional awareness
Resource management

11 Questions3 MinutesCreated by DecidingDove47

You have an employee who is excellent at their job, yet regularly arrives late to work. What do you do?

Let the behavior slide because it does not impact their work efficiency.

Ask to speak to the employee privately and discuss about their tardiness.

Give the employee a warning because their behavior influences their co-workers.

Fire the employee because this has been occurring daily.

You have an assignment which requires research, data, and a written essay, which is due in a week. What is your schedule like?

None--complete is all the night before it's due.

Work chronologically--taking a few days for researching and only a day or two for writing since it's easier for you.

Work on it whenever you have free time in your day.

Work on the assignment approximately an hour a day until it's due, maybe a few days earlier for editing and revising.

You meet a friend at a coffee shop. He is walking slower than usual, his voice is almost monotonic, and when he smiles his eyes remain steady, only the corner of his mouth curl up. Which emotion best matches with your friend's appearance?

Tired

Bored

Unhappy

Agitated

Your are left to watch a younger cousin, and when it's dinner time, the 4 year old child refuses to eat the food that's there. How do you motivate him?

Tell him that it is his choice and let him go watch T.V--maybe he'll get hungry later

Give them an either-or option. Eat the entire plate of food or you'll tell their parents and the child won't be able to watch T.V later.

Promise to give them more T.V time if they eat at least half of their plate.

Reason with the child and show them the food is good by trying some of it yourself--Tell them how everyone needs to eat, so they can have energy to play and run.

You're fairly good at your new job, but you have noticed that many of your customers are fluent Spanish speakers. What do you do?

Get the information of a spanish-speaking co-worker so you may recommend her to some of your clients

Learn how to say "I don't speak Spanish"

Take a few Spanish classes at a local college down the street in your free time.

Keep a Spanish to English dictionary in your desk, just in case you cannot communicate a specific word.

You're running late for an important meeting with your boss, what do you do?

Go out looking like a mess, if you get there early you can fix yourself in the car.

Look at the traffic online, and set yourself 10 minutes to get ready and grab something in your kitchen to-go.

Your boss has just come from an international trip, they will probably be taking their time and arrive a few minutes late them self.

Call the office and leave your boss a message, making up a lie to explain why you will be running late.

You have to be at two different places at once: a meeting with a professional contact and your niece's piano recital. What do you do?

Move the meeting to a coffeeshop closer to the location of the piano recital, so it's quicker to run to the concert after your meeting.

Choose one place to go and cancel/postpone the other.

Go back and forth between both places.

Be honest with your contact and niece, reason with both, and explain you will attend both but for shorter amounts of time.

You are driving on the highway when you realize you have a flat tire. You've never changed a tire before, what do you do?

You read the manual and try to do it by yourself

You stop a car and ask for help

You call a tow truck

You call for a ride and leave your car on the highway

A friend or family member calls you while you are participating in an important work reunion. You:

Leave the reunion with an excuse

Send a text message to tell him you'll call him back later

Turn off your cell phone, since you forgot to do it before

Answer the phone anyways

Your friend is very pale and doesn't feel well, but also insists on going out. You:

Try to convince him/her that it's better to stay home

Go out with him/her, so you can keep an eye on him/her

Let him/her go

Force him/her to stay home and stay with him/her

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