Free CAST practice test

What makes this a simulation rather than a quiz

The mock exists to reproduce the conditions, not just the content. Four things about it are deliberate:

• The clock is per part and absolute. Each part has its own deadline set when the part opens. Switching tabs does not pause it, because a real sitting does not pause either.
• Navigation is free, and questions can be flagged. You can skip forward, come back and change an answer for as long as that part's clock runs. Managing that trade-off is a skill CAST genuinely tests, and a forward-only runner would not let you practise it.
• Marks are withheld until the whole thing ends. Nothing is revealed between parts. Knowing you got the last one wrong changes how you sit the next one, and in the real exam you will not know.
• The result is two gates, never one percentage. See below.

How the result is scored

CAST has two independent thresholds and this result keeps them independent: verbal on its own, and numerical plus abstract combined. Each is reported as a pass or a fail against its own threshold, with the raw score behind it.

There is deliberately no field anywhere in the result that averages the two. A candidate who scores 19 on verbal and 8 across numerical and abstract has not passed CAST, and a single "68%" would tell them the opposite. If a part is not assessed, that reads as not attempted — never as a pass.

The thresholds in full →

Sit it more than once

The numerical and abstract parts are drawn from generated banks, so a second sitting is a genuinely different paper rather than the same one again. Practice also remembers what you have already seen, so the mock draws from what is left before it repeats anything.

Use the untimed drills first — verbal, numerical, abstract — to get the formats automatic, then use the mock to find out what your pacing actually is.