Exam simulator

Set up like exam day

The full and half exams are best at a desk on a laptop. The quick check is fine on a phone.

• •Nothing on the desk. The real exam is closed book with no notes, no calculator, no watch, and no phone; the few arithmetic items (compa-ratio, turnover rate, the four-fifths rule) are meant to be done in your head or on the scratch surface Prometric provides.
• •A quiet block of time. The real appointment is 4 hours: 220 minutes of testing in two independently timed 110-minute sections, with no scheduled break and a clock that keeps running if you step out. Pausing here is for practice only.
• •Read situational judgment items the SHRM way: every option may be defensible, and the keyed answer is the most effective action, not the only legal one.
• •Sign in first if you want the result saved to your account. Signed out, it stays on this device.
• •Before you start, skim the cheat sheet for the thresholds, deadlines, and formulas the questions turn on.