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The Bridge Exam tests six abilities, including attention to detail and time management. These ten questions come from our full Bridge Exam practice forms.

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Question 1 · Attention to Detail

A requisition reads: 12 boxes at $4.50 each, 6 boxes at $7.00 each, total $95.00. What is wrong with it?
  1. A. The quantity on the first line is wrong
  2. B. The total should be $54.00
  3. C. The unit price of the second line is wrong
  4. D. The total should be $96.00
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The answer is D. Twelve at $4.50 is $54.00 and six at $7.00 is $42.00, which comes to $96.00 against the $95.00 written on the requisition.

  • A is wrong: Twelve at $4.50 gives $54.00, which is consistent with the rest of that line.
  • B is wrong: $54.00 is the first line on its own and leaves the second line out entirely.
  • C is wrong: Six at $7.00 gives $42.00, which is consistent with the rest of the line.

Question 2 · Attention to Detail

A visitor log entry reads: "Tuesday 14 April, arrived 9:15 am, departed 8:55 am." What should be queried?
  1. A. The date, which is not a Tuesday
  2. B. The absence of a signature
  3. C. The arrival time, which is too early
  4. D. The departure is before the arrival
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The answer is D. Nothing in the entry establishes what day 14 April fell on, and a departure at 8:55 am after a 9:15 am arrival is an error visible from the entry alone.

  • A is wrong: The entry gives no way to check the day against the date.
  • B is wrong: No signature is mentioned as required, so its absence proves nothing.
  • C is wrong: A quarter past nine is an ordinary time to arrive at an office.

Question 3 · Information Ordering

Incoming mail is handled in this order: (1) open and date-stamp, (2) sort by department, (3) log anything containing payment, (4) deliver to trays. An envelope containing a check has been opened and date-stamped. The next step is to
  1. A. log the payment
  2. B. sort it by department
  3. C. deliver it to the tray
  4. D. date-stamp the check as well
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The answer is B. Sorting is step 2 and comes before logging, whatever the envelope contains.

  • A is wrong: Logging is step 3 and one step is outstanding before it.
  • C is wrong: Delivery is the last of the four steps.
  • D is wrong: The order stamps the envelope once and says nothing about stamping contents.

Question 4 · Information Ordering

Files are put away by last name, then by first name, then by date, newest first. Which of these is in the correct place?
  1. A. Ramos, Ana, 4 March; Ramos, Ana, 19 March; Ramos, Bea, 2 January
  2. B. Ramos, Bea, 2 January; Ramos, Ana, 19 March; Ramos, Ana, 4 March
  3. C. Ramos, Ana, 19 March; Ramos, Ana, 4 March; Ramos, Bea, 2 January
  4. D. Ramos, Ana, 19 March; Ramos, Bea, 2 January; Ramos, Ana, 4 March
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The answer is C. Ana comes before Bea, and within Ana the newest date comes first, which puts 19 March above 4 March.

  • A is wrong: The two Ana files are in date order oldest first, and the rule says newest first.
  • B is wrong: Bea is filed before Ana, and the rule sorts by first name after the last.
  • D is wrong: The two Ana files are split by a Bea file, which the rule does not allow.

Question 5 · Number Facility

A store room holds 8 cartons of 24 folders. 37 folders are issued. How many remain?
  1. A. 155
  2. B. 192
  3. C. 145
  4. D. 165
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The answer is A. Eight cartons of 24 is 192 folders, and 192 minus 37 is 155.

  • B is wrong: 192 is the number before any folders were issued.
  • C is wrong: That subtracts 47 rather than 37.
  • D is wrong: That subtracts 27 rather than 37.

Question 6 · Number Facility

An invoice is $840 before tax. Tax is 8.875%. To the nearest dollar, the total is
  1. A. $848
  2. B. $75
  3. C. $924
  4. D. $915
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The answer is D. 8.875% of $840 is $74.55, and $840 plus $74.55 is $914.55, which rounds to $915.

  • A is wrong: That adds 8.875 dollars rather than 8.875 percent.
  • B is wrong: That is the tax on its own, without the $840 it is charged on.
  • C is wrong: That applies a rate of about 10% instead of 8.875%.

Question 7 · Time Management

A clerk starts at 9:00 am and has four tasks: two of 45 minutes, one of 30 and one of 90. A meeting is fixed from 11:00 to 11:30. Working straight through, at what time is the last task finished?
  1. A. 12:00 pm
  2. B. 1:00 pm
  3. C. 12:30 pm
  4. D. 1:30 pm
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The answer is C. The four tasks come to three and a half hours and the meeting adds another half hour, so five hours' work from 9:00 finishes at 12:30.

  • A is wrong: That leaves the fixed meeting out of the day altogether.
  • B is wrong: That adds an extra half hour that nothing in the day accounts for.
  • D is wrong: That is an hour more than the tasks and the meeting come to.

Question 8 · Time Management

Three tasks are due today: A takes 2 hours, B takes 1 hour and must be finished before a 1:30 pm collection, C takes 3 hours. Work begins at 9:00 am with an hour for lunch at noon. Which order completes all three?
  1. A. A, then C, then B
  2. B. C, then B, then A
  3. C. C, then A, then B
  4. D. A, then B, then C
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The answer is D. A from 9:00 to 11:00 and B from 11:00 to noon puts B before the collection, and C runs from 1:00 to 4:00 after lunch.

  • A is wrong: A runs 9:00 to 11:00 and C then runs past lunch to 3:00, so B finishes at 4:00, long after the collection.
  • B is wrong: C runs 9:00 to noon, so B cannot start until 1:00 and finishes at 2:00, half an hour after the collection.
  • C is wrong: C runs 9:00 to noon and A runs 1:00 to 3:00, which leaves B finishing at 4:00, long after the collection.

Read this, then answer the questions about it.

Leave is requested at least ten business days before the first day requested. A request of more than five consecutive days is made twenty business days before.

A request is granted unless the office cannot be covered, and where two requests for the same period cannot both be granted, the one submitted first is granted.

Leave not taken by the end of the year is carried forward to a maximum of five days. Anything above five days is lost, and the employee is told in writing before the year ends.

A granted request may be withdrawn by the employee up to five business days before it begins. After that it may be withdrawn only where the office is not left short.

Question 9 · Written Comprehension

An employee asks on 1 March for seven consecutive days beginning 20 March. Counting only business days, the request is
  1. A. in time, as ten business days are needed
  2. B. not in time, as thirty business days are needed
  3. C. in time, because the days are consecutive
  4. D. not in time: more than five days needs twenty
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The answer is D. More than five consecutive days requires twenty business days' notice, and 1 March to 20 March is short of that.

  • A is wrong: Ten business days is the ordinary notice, and this request is over five days.
  • B is wrong: The passage names ten and twenty and never mentions thirty.
  • C is wrong: Being consecutive is what triggers the longer notice rather than excusing it.

Question 10 · Written Expression

Which request is specific enough for another department to answer without writing back?
  1. A. Please send us all of the relevant figures just as soon as you possibly can
  2. B. Please send the March overtime figures by Friday
  3. C. Please let us have the overtime information at some point when you get a chance
  4. D. We need your figures for the report
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The answer is B. It names the month, the subject and the deadline, so the reader has nothing left to ask before answering.

  • A is wrong: Which figures and by when are both left open.
  • C is wrong: Overtime information could be any month and any unit.
  • D is wrong: Your figures names neither the period nor what the figures are of.
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