Updated April 2026 · Unbiased breakdown of what each platform actually does
AssessmentDay is a UK-based aptitude test practice platform offering free and paid practice tests for numerical, verbal, logical, inductive, and situational judgment tests. It's known for providing good quality free tests, with paid packages offering more questions and detailed explanations.
TestSolve is an AI-powered aptitude test practice tool. You practise with real-format questions, press F8, and receive the answer and reasoning on your phone. It's built for candidates who want instant, worked explanations while they practise.
AssessmentDay is a practice test platform. You pay for access to a library of mock tests designed to help you improve your skills before your assessment.
| Feature | TestSolve | AssessmentDay |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier quality | ✓ 3 real test captures free | ✓ Genuinely good free tests |
| Employer-specific prep packs | ✓ 200+ companies covered | Partial — major publishers only |
| Price for full access | $14.99 for 30 questions | £19.99–£29.99 per package |
| Numerical reasoning | ✓ AI solves in a few seconds | ✓ Good practice questions |
| Logical/inductive reasoning | ✓ Pattern detection AI | ✓ Solid question bank |
| Verbal reasoning | ✓ Passage analysis AI | ✓ Good free and paid tests |
| SJT analysis | ✓ Employer-values framework | Basic SJT practice only |
| Mobile-first experience | ✓ Answers to your phone | ✗ Desktop practice tool |
| Publisher coverage (Kenexa, Cubiks) | ✓ All major publishers | ✓ Major publishers covered |
| TestSolve | AssessmentDay | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Yes — free solve, no card required | Yes — good range of free practice tests |
| Paid plan | From $14.99 for 30 questions · no subscription | £19.99–£29.99 per package · Volume packs available |
| Per-test pricing | Per-question pricing · no subscription | Yes — purchased by test type or package |
| Static practice tests | $19.99 for 5 full SHL Style tests (120 questions), or 10 questions free | £19.99–£29.99 (~$25–$37) per package |
Genuinely good free content: AssessmentDay's free test offerings are among the best in the market — genuine practice tests with explanations, not just teasers designed to push you to a paid tier. For candidates preparing on a budget, AssessmentDay free tests are excellent.
Clean, focused format: AssessmentDay doesn't try to cover everything. It focuses on the core aptitude test types — numerical, verbal, logical, inductive — and does them well. Less overwhelming than platforms with hundreds of obscure products.
Detailed explanations: Paid packages include step-by-step explanations for every question, which builds genuine understanding rather than just providing answers.
No employer-specific intelligence: AssessmentDay doesn't tailor its tests to specific employers' scoring patterns, values, or exact formats. A generic numerical reasoning test is not the same as a Barclays-specific interactive assessment.
No SJT depth: AssessmentDay's SJT practice is basic — questions are not calibrated to specific employer values frameworks. For EY, KPMG, or Barclays SJT questions, employer-specific prep (or TestSolve's instant SJT explanations) is significantly more useful.
A comparable full practice pack, at a comparable price: TestSolve's SHL Style Practice Pack covers the same ground AssessmentDay's paid packages do — full timed tests with an answer key and explanation on every question — for $19.99 (5 tests, 120 questions), in the same price range as AssessmentDay's own packages. You also get a free 10-question sample before buying, timer included, to see the format first.
AssessmentDay is the best free practice option on the market — genuinely useful for candidates who want to get familiar with test formats at no cost. TestSolve complements it rather than competing directly: use AssessmentDay to understand the formats, then use TestSolve when the real test matters.
For candidates who want to build their aptitude test skills over time — who have weeks to prepare and want a large practice library — AssessmentDay is a strong option. For candidates who want fast, worked explanations while they practise a specific format, TestSolve is the more direct tool. Many candidates use both: AssessmentDay to build familiarity with question formats, and TestSolve for instant explanations along the way.
Start with AssessmentDay free tests to gauge your baseline. Use TestSolve alongside your practice sessions for instant, worked explanations on the questions you find hardest.
AssessmentDay's reputation for good-quality free tests is genuinely earned — the free practice questions cover realistic numerical, verbal, and logical reasoning formats with enough depth to give a real sense of your baseline before you've spent anything. This is a meaningfully different starting point from prep platforms that gate almost everything behind a paywall and use the free tier purely as a lead-generation teaser. For a candidate who just wants to gauge roughly where they stand before deciding how much further preparation to invest in, AssessmentDay's free tier is often enough on its own to make that initial decision.
Where the free tier runs out is depth and explanation quality at scale — the paid packages exist specifically because a handful of free tests, however well-made, don't give you the volume of repeated practice most candidates need to build real speed and consistency across a full battery of question types. The paid packages add both more questions and more detailed explanations per question, which is where AssessmentDay's paid tier and a real-time answer tool like TestSolve start to serve genuinely different purposes rather than competing directly — one builds volume and explanation depth over a study period, the other gives an immediate answer to whatever specific question you're facing right now.
AssessmentDay's coverage spans the five most common corporate aptitude formats — numerical, verbal, logical, inductive, and situational judgement — which happens to line up closely with what most UK graduate and professional hiring actually tests. For candidates specifically preparing for one of these five formats without yet knowing which employer or provider they'll ultimately face, AssessmentDay's general-format practice is a reasonable way to build baseline familiarity with the format itself before narrowing in on provider-specific practice once an actual invitation arrives. TestSolve's format coverage extends further into provider-specific and employer-specific delivery — recognising and solving the actual live question on your screen, in whichever provider's specific interface it appears in, rather than a generalised practice version of that format.
A sensible sequence for a candidate with a few weeks of runway: start with AssessmentDay's free tests to establish a genuine baseline across the five core formats, without spending anything yet. Identify your one or two weakest formats from that baseline, and use AssessmentDay's paid packages to build focused, repeated practice specifically there, since that's where the marginal value of more practice volume and detailed explanations is highest. In the final week or two, shift toward realistic, timed practice with an instant-answer tool on hand for the specific questions that still catch you out — at this stage you're not building new understanding so much as polishing execution under time pressure, which is exactly where a fast, worked explanation earns its keep.
A worked explanation is only as useful as how clearly it shows you why a specific approach works, not just that it works. AssessmentDay's paid-tier explanations are built to teach the underlying method behind a question type in general — useful for building transferable skill you can apply to a slightly different version of the same question type later, which is exactly the kind of durable understanding that pays off across an entire test rather than just one item. TestSolve's explanations are built around the specific question currently in front of you — showing the exact reasoning that produces the correct answer to that particular item, which is most valuable in the moment you're stuck and need to move forward, though it naturally teaches you less about the general method than a dedicated instructional explanation does. Neither approach to explanation is strictly better; they serve different moments in your preparation, and candidates who use both tend to get the general method from one and the specific unblocking from the other.
Because AssessmentDay's free tier already covers meaningful ground, many candidates can go further into their preparation before needing to spend anything at all compared to platforms that paywall everything from the start. Once you do need to pay — either for AssessmentDay's expanded question packs or for TestSolve's per-question packs — the two pricing models suit different usage patterns. AssessmentDay's packages are priced around volume of practice content; TestSolve's are priced around volume of live questions actually solved. A candidate who wants to work through hundreds of practice questions over several weeks will generally find more total value per pound in a volume-priced package; a candidate who mainly needs help unblocking a handful of specific sticking points closer to their test date will generally find more value in per-question pricing that doesn't require paying for content they won't have time to use.
There's no single right answer to "which platform should I use" independent of your own timeline, budget, and how far along your preparation already is. A candidate months out from applying, still deciding whether they even need dedicated aptitude-test preparation, is well served starting with AssessmentDay's free tier to get a realistic baseline at zero cost. A candidate with a confirmed test date and specific weak spots already identified is better served spending on whichever tool — AssessmentDay's deeper explanations or TestSolve's instant answers — most directly targets that specific gap. Being honest about which of these situations actually describes you, rather than defaulting to whichever platform is more heavily marketed, is what actually determines which choice serves you best in the end.
Yes. TestSolve can solve questions from any browser-based test, including free practice tests on AssessmentDay.
AssessmentDay offers a generous free tier with practice tests. TestSolve offers one free solve to try the product, then question packs from $14.99.
Use AssessmentDay for free practice to build familiarity. Use TestSolve alongside it for instant AI-powered explanations while you practise.
AssessmentDay's explanations are built to teach the general method behind a question type. TestSolve's explanations focus on the specific question you're currently facing, which is faster but less generalisable.
It genuinely depends on your usage pattern. AssessmentDay's volume-priced packages suit candidates working through hundreds of practice questions over several weeks; TestSolve's per-question pricing suits candidates who mainly need help unblocking specific sticking points closer to their actual test date.
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