The Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (WGCTA) is one of the most widely used assessments in business hiring and law school admissions. Published by Pearson, it measures your ability to analyze information, evaluate arguments, and draw sound conclusions — skills that employers in law, finance, consulting, and management consider essential. Download our free Watson-Glaser practice test PDF below and study offline at your own pace.
The current short form of the Watson-Glaser (Form D) contains 40 questions and must be completed in 30 minutes. You'll encounter five distinct subtests, each testing a different dimension of critical thinking. Practicing with realistic questions before your assessment dramatically improves both your accuracy and your time management on test day.
Each subtest on the Watson-Glaser measures a distinct reasoning skill. Knowing exactly what each one asks you to do is the single most important preparation step.
You're given a factual passage and a list of proposed conclusions. For each conclusion you must decide: TRUE, PROBABLY TRUE, INSUFFICIENT DATA, PROBABLY FALSE, or FALSE. The key discipline is not going beyond what the passage states — do not add outside knowledge or make assumptions.
You're given a statement and a proposed assumption. Decide whether the assumption IS MADE or IS NOT MADE in the statement. This tests your ability to spot what a speaker takes for granted without explicitly stating it.
Given a set of premises, determine whether each conclusion FOLLOWS or DOES NOT FOLLOW logically. You must treat the premises as true even if they conflict with real-world facts, and judge the conclusion only on logical validity — not factual accuracy.
Given a paragraph and a proposed conclusion, decide whether the conclusion FOLLOWS BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT or DOES NOT FOLLOW. The bar here is strong evidence from the passage, not mere possibility.
Given a question and arguments for or against it, decide if each argument is STRONG or WEAK. Strong arguments are directly relevant and substantively important. Weak arguments are irrelevant, circular, emotionally based, or only trivially true.
Want unlimited interactive practice beyond the PDF? Our Watson-Glaser practice test gives you timed, scored sessions that mirror the real assessment format. Every question includes a detailed explanation so you understand exactly why each answer is correct — not just whether you got it right. This is especially useful for mastering the Inference and Evaluation of Arguments subtests, where test-takers most often lose points by applying outside knowledge instead of reasoning strictly from the text provided.