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Facts checked against official sources on October 12, 2026

Federal hiring assessments

USA Hire practice tests

The most accurate USA Hire practice is OPM's own. This page shows where it is, what it does and does not give you, and how to add practice with explanations alongside it.

OPM's official practice assessments

OPM's Applicant Resource Center offers these practice assessments:

  • Early Career Talent Assessment
  • Occupational Interaction Assessment
  • Occupational Reading Assessment
  • Occupational Reasoning Assessment
  • Occupational Judgment Assessment
  • Occupational Math Assessment
  • Federal Supervisor Assessment (supervisory)
  • They show the types of questions and the look and feel of the real assessments.
  • They are shorter than the actual assessments and do not cover every possible question.
  • You do not learn whether an answer was correct, and you do not receive a score.
  • You can take any of them as many times as you like.
  • OPM says that if a practice assessment is not listed, it does not exist.

Go to OPM's practice assessments

How to use them

  1. Find out which assessments your application needs. Use your assessment notification, or match the competencies in the job announcement to the practice assessments. Our overview explains both methods.
  2. Take them on the device and in the place you will use. OPM recommends this to replicate the real experience.
  3. Decide on any accommodation before starting the real assessments. OPM says that if the practice tests lead you to believe you need a reasonable accommodation, do not begin the actual assessments. Request the accommodation first.

Take a six-question reading and math practice test

Not official USA Hire questions

Because OPM's practice gives no feedback, these items add the explanation. They are original and unofficial general reading and math items, not USA Hire questions, and they do not predict a score.

Practice exam mode

Take the test in a focused, exam-style layout

Once you begin, the interface shifts into a calmer testing view with progress tracking, pacing cues, flag-for-review controls, and a question navigator built to feel closer to a real written civil service exam.

Questions

6

Mixed across reading, math, logic, and judgment.

Timed mode

10:00

About one minute per question: a realistic pacing target for this set.

Review tools

Flag + revisit

Track unanswered items and return before scoring.

For logical reasoning items, see the Occupational Reasoning page. For more general practice with explanations on every answer, try our free civil service practice test.

Judgment and Interaction measure how you would decide and what you prefer, so there is nothing to memorize. See how to approach them.

Practice this in the Federal Assessments track

Create a free account and choose the Federal Assessments track to get timed reading, reasoning, and math sets with an explanation for every answer, plus score history. Pro adds 120 more original questions in sets of 30. Items are original practice and are not USA Hire questions.

Start the Federal Assessments track

Official sources and last verification

Facts on this page about dates, eligibility, and exam components come from the official sources below. We last checked them on October 12, 2026. Exam details change between cycles, so confirm with the administering authority before you act.

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