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You have 13 minutes to answer 10 questions. Each question describes a workplace situation and four possible responses. For every question, select the response you believe would be MOST effective and the response you believe would be LEAST effective. There are no trick questions; judge each response on how well it would work in the situation described.
About this test: this is one of a set of practice tests covering the areas Toyota’s assessment process typically includes. It is written by us: it is not Toyota’s own assessment and these are not Toyota’s questions.
Question 1 of 10
You are a receptionist at a physiotherapy practice. At 11am the practice’s online booking system goes down; patients are ringing and cannot book. A patient in the waiting room needs her follow-up appointments arranged before she leaves, which takes ten minutes. Your practice manager wants the insurance paperwork for three patients completed today, taking an hour. The IT contractor answers within minutes when called. Which response below would be most effective, and which would be least effective?
Most effective: C. Ring the IT contractor about the booking system straight away, book the waiting patient's follow-ups while you wait for them, and do the insurance paperwork afterwards.
Least effective: A. Take patients' details by phone and tell them the practice will call back to book when the system returns, without reporting the outage to the IT contractor.
A: Fails to escalate a genuine fault: it builds a manual workaround for an outage nobody has been told about, so the system stays down all day and the backlog grows with it.
B: Delays the decision: the contractor answers in minutes and then works in the background, so calling first costs almost nothing and starts a repair that every ringing patient is waiting on.
D: Substitutes own judgement for the stakeholder's: an hour of paperwork due at some point today is put ahead of a system outage affecting every patient trying to book and a patient waiting at the desk.
The most effective response is to ring the IT contractor about the booking system straight away, book the waiting patient’s follow-ups while you wait for them, and do the insurance paperwork afterwards: the contractor answers within minutes and then works in the background, so that call sets the longest-running fix going at almost no cost, and the ten minutes with the patient fits neatly into the wait. The paperwork has the rest of the day. It beats booking her follow-up appointments first because she is in front of you, since the call is the thing that unblocks everyone else and takes moments. It beats starting the insurance paperwork because your manager wants it today, because an hour of paperwork with a whole day available should not precede an outage affecting every patient trying to book. The least effective response is taking details by phone for a callback without reporting the outage at all: it manages the symptoms of a fault nobody has been told about, so it persists all day and the callback list grows. That is worse than the other two, which sequence badly but do not leave the fault unreported. The principle: start the fix with the longest lead time first, then use the waiting time for the people in front of you.
Question 2 of 10
You work behind the counter of a bakery. A customer ordered a birthday cake for collection at noon today with ‘Happy Birthday Amelie’ piped on it. It is 11am and you notice the cake in the fridge reads ‘Happy Birthday Amelia’. The decorator is in until 1pm and could re-pipe the inscription in twenty minutes. The customer’s phone number is on the order. Which response below would be most effective, and which would be least effective?
Most effective: D. Ask the decorator to re-pipe the inscription now, and ring the customer to let her know it is being corrected and will be ready at noon as arranged.
Least effective: A. Hand the cake over at noon as it is, since the difference is one letter, the customer may not notice and it is too late to change it now.
A: Ignores the customer's actual need: a misspelled name on a child's birthday cake is the whole point of the order, and it is not too late, since the decorator is in and there is an hour. Relying on her not noticing is concealment of a known defect.
B: Delays the decision: it hands her a choice she does not need to make. The name is simply wrong, the decorator is in, and twenty minutes is available before noon.
C: Hides the problem: the outcome is right and the customer is never told that a cake with her daughter's name misspelled nearly went out, so she cannot check the spelling on the order for next time.
The most effective response is to ask the decorator to re-pipe the inscription now and ring the customer to say it is being corrected and will be ready at noon: the name is wrong, there is an hour and a decorator on site, so it can be put right and still be ready. Telling her means she is not surprised and can confirm the spelling. It beats ringing to ask whether she would like it corrected or would rather collect it as it is, because that puts a decision to her that does not need making, when the fix is already possible. It beats having it re-piped and saying nothing about the error, because that gets the cake right but leaves her unaware of a mistake that came from the order itself. The least effective response is handing it over as it is on the grounds that the difference is one letter she may not notice: it claims the change is too late when an hour and a decorator are available, and relies on a misspelled name on a child’s birthday cake going unremarked. That is worse than the other two, which both produce a correct cake. The principle: when there is time to put a mistake right, put it right and tell the customer you have.
Question 3 of 10
You work on the forecourt of a petrol station. Part of your role is recording the daily fuel dip readings, which are used to detect leaks from the underground tanks. Today’s reading is a hundred litres below what the sales figures predict. Your colleague says the dipstick is unreliable, that this happens most weeks, and that you should write down the expected figure so the paperwork is not queried. The manager is in tomorrow. Which response below would be most effective, and which would be least effective?
Most effective: A. Record the actual reading, and ring the manager today to tell her the dip is a hundred litres below the expected figure so she can decide whether the tanks need checking.
Least effective: B. Write down the expected figure as your colleague suggests, since the dipstick is known to be unreliable and a queried reading would only create work for the manager tomorrow.
B: Falsifies a safety record: the dip readings exist to detect leaks from underground fuel tanks, so entering the number you expected rather than the one you measured removes the only signal the system has. That is dishonesty with a safety consequence.
C: Delays the decision: the record is right, which matters, but a hundred-litre gap on a fuel tank is exactly the reading somebody qualified should see today rather than after your own retest.
D: Fails to escalate a genuine risk: the reading is honest and the urgency is missed. A possible fuel leak waits overnight on a note when a phone call today would have reached the person who can act.
The most effective response is to record the actual reading and ring the manager today about the hundred-litre shortfall: the reading goes in as measured, and a discrepancy that size on an underground fuel tank is a possible leak, so she hears about it today rather than tomorrow. It beats taking a second dip yourself at the end of your shift, because retesting before telling anyone delays a safety signal in order to satisfy your own curiosity, when the manager is a phone call away. It beats leaving a note for her to find when she comes in tomorrow, because that leaves a possible leak unattended overnight for no gain. The least effective response is writing down the expected figure because the dipstick is known to be unreliable: it puts a number that was never measured into the record that exists specifically to detect leaks, so a real leak would be invisible, and it does so to avoid creating work. That is worse than the other two, which are too slow but keep the record true. The principle: record what you measured, and get a safety discrepancy to somebody who can act on it on the day you find it.
Question 4 of 10
You work on the returns desk of a clothing store. A customer wants to return a coat bought three weeks ago. The receipt shows it was bought in the sale, and sale items can be exchanged but not refunded, which is printed on the receipt. She says nobody told her at the till, she no longer wants the coat, and she is moving abroad next week, so an exchange or a credit note would be no use to her. She is polite but firm. Your duty manager is on the shop floor and can authorise exceptions. Which response below would be most effective, and which would be least effective?
Most effective: B. Explain the sale policy and the exchange option, and ask the duty manager whether a refund can be authorised in this case since the customer was not told at the till.
Least effective: A. Tell her the policy is printed on the receipt so there is nothing that can be done, and suggest she is more careful about checking the terms in future.
A: Ignores the customer's actual need: it closes the matter with a correction of the customer's behaviour, when an exception route exists a few steps away. Adding a lecture to a refusal is a different order of poor service.
C: Stops at the policy: the policy is correctly stated and stops there, when a duty manager who can authorise an exception is on the shop floor and has not been asked.
D: Breaches confidentiality or process: the exception exists and belongs to the duty manager. Granting it yourself gets a defensible outcome by removing the control that governs it.
The most effective response is to explain the sale policy and the exchange option, then ask the duty manager whether a refund can be authorised since she was not told at the till: the policy is what it is, but the store has someone on the floor who can authorise exceptions and a reason to consider one. Stating both the policy and the route is the complete answer. It beats explaining that sale items cannot be refunded and offering an exchange or credit note, because that applies the policy and stops, leaving an available remedy unasked for. It beats processing the refund anyway to avoid losing a customer, because a refund outside policy is the duty manager’s decision, and taking it yourself removes the control rather than using it. The least effective response is telling her the terms are printed on the receipt and that she should check them more carefully in future: it refuses, and adds advice, when an exception route exists a few steps away. That is worse than the exchange, which at least offers something, and worse than the unauthorised refund, which at least resolves it. The principle: state the policy, then use the escalation route the business provides rather than either stopping at the rule or going round it.
Question 5 of 10
You work behind the counter at a community pharmacy. A regular customer collects her repeat prescription and, back at the counter two minutes later, says the box contains 28 tablets but her prescription is for 56 and she has none left at home. The dispensing record on screen shows 56 issued. The pharmacist is with a patient in the consultation room and will be free in about ten minutes. The customer is due at work and is becoming anxious. Which response below would be most effective, and which would be least effective?
Most effective: C. Apologise, take her details and the box, tell her the pharmacist will check the dispensing within ten minutes, and ask her to wait or take a call at work so nothing is guessed at.
Least effective: D. Tell her the pharmacy cannot look into it while the pharmacist is busy and ask her to come back tomorrow when the counter is quieter and someone can go through the records properly.
A: Acts on assumptions without checking: the record shows what was meant to be issued, not what went into the bag, and treating the screen as proof sends a customer with no tablets left home to look for a box that may not exist.
B: Breaches confidentiality or process: handing out prescription medicine without the pharmacist checking the dispensing is not yours to do, and a ten-minute wait is not a reason to bypass the one control that catches a dispensing error.
D: Ignores the customer's actual need: she has no tablets left and a ten-minute wait was available. Sending her away untreated overnight to suit the counter's convenience is a service failure of a different kind from the other options, which at least try to resolve it today.
The most effective response is to apologise, take her details, and tell her the pharmacist will check the dispensing within ten minutes: it takes the complaint seriously, puts the one person qualified to check it on the job, and still gives the customer a way to get to work. It beats quoting the computer record and suggesting she looks at home, because the dispensing record shows the intention, not the contents of the bag, so repeating it back to her settles nothing and puts the burden of proof on the customer. It beats handing her a second box of 28 yourself, because the pharmacist’s check is exactly the control that catches a short dispense, and skipping it to save ten minutes risks compounding one error with another. The least effective response is telling her to come back tomorrow when the counter is quieter: it is the only response that leaves a customer with no medication overnight when a qualified check was ten minutes away, and it does so for the pharmacy’s convenience rather than any clinical reason. That is worse than quoting the record, which at least offers her a next step, and worse than handing over a second box, which errs by trying too hard to help. The principle: when a customer has a genuine need and the right check is minutes away, make the check happen rather than deferring or bypassing it.
Question 6 of 10
You work at an MOT test centre as an administrator. A regular customer’s van has failed its test on a worn tyre. He explains he needs the van for work tomorrow, says he will change the tyre himself at the weekend, and asks you to record the test as a pass so he can carry on driving. The tester who failed it has gone home. The centre manager is in the office. Which response below would be most effective, and which would be least effective?
Most effective: C. Tell him the result cannot be changed, and explain the retest process so the van can be back on the road as soon as the tyre is replaced.
Least effective: B. Record the test as a pass as he asks, since he has committed to changing the tyre at the weekend and he needs the van for work tomorrow.
A: Passes responsibility to others: the refusal is right and it leaves his real problem, needing the van tomorrow, unanswered when the retest route would have answered it.
B: Falsifies a safety certificate: an MOT pass is a legal statement that the vehicle met the standard, and recording one for a van that failed on a worn tyre puts it on the road unlawfully and unsafely. That is dishonesty with a road safety consequence.
D: Delays the decision: an MOT result is not reconsidered because a customer is inconvenienced, and holding it overnight creates a false impression that the failure is negotiable.
The most effective response is to tell him the result cannot be changed and explain the retest process so the van can be back on the road once the tyre is replaced: the result is a legal record and cannot be altered, but his actual problem is needing the van, and the retest is the answer to that. Refusing clearly and explaining the route does both. It beats telling him he will have to take it up with the centre manager, because that gives the same refusal and leaves him to argue, when the retest is what he needs to hear about. It beats leaving the result unrecorded overnight so the tester can reconsider it, because that implies the failure might be reversed, which it will not be, and delays the retest he needs. The least effective response is recording the test as a pass because he needs the van tomorrow: it certifies a vehicle that failed on a worn tyre, putting an unsafe van on the road with a false certificate. That is worse than the other two, which handle it poorly but keep the record true. The principle: refuse to falsify the record, and tell the customer the legitimate route to the outcome they need.
Question 7 of 10
You are a duty officer at a student halls of residence. A student tells you the fire door on the third floor stairwell has been propped open with a fire extinguisher for the past few days. You check and it is. The building has three hundred residents. Your accommodation manager is on call but off site, and the maintenance team start at 8am tomorrow. It is 9pm. Which response below would be most effective, and which would be least effective?
Most effective: A. Close the fire door and return the extinguisher to its bracket now, then ring the accommodation manager to report that it has been propped for days.
Least effective: D. Leave it until morning, since the door has apparently been propped for several days without incident and moving the extinguisher at night might leave it where residents cannot find it.
B: Delays the decision: the log is right for the repair and wrong for tonight. Three hundred residents sleep behind a fire door that cannot close.
C: Passes responsibility to residents: a notice asks three hundred people to maintain a fire precaution, when closing the door yourself takes seconds and removes the risk outright.
D: Stays silent about a known fire risk: a fire door that cannot close and an extinguisher out of its bracket are two failures at once, above three hundred sleeping residents, and the justification is that nothing has happened yet.
The most effective response is to close the fire door and return the extinguisher to its bracket now, then ring the accommodation manager to report that it has been propped for days: those two actions remove two fire safety failures in seconds, and the pattern is a separate problem she needs tonight because it suggests the door will simply be propped again. It beats putting a notice on the door asking residents not to prop it, because that delegates a fire precaution to three hundred residents when you can restore it yourself immediately. It beats logging the issue for the maintenance team at 8am, because that addresses the repair and leaves the building unsafe overnight. The least effective response is leaving it until morning because nothing has gone wrong so far: it leaves a fire door incapable of closing and an extinguisher out of its bracket above three hundred sleeping residents. That is worse than the maintenance log and the notice, which are inadequate but reduce or record the risk. The principle: restore the safety measure yourself when you can do it in seconds, then report the pattern to whoever can stop it recurring.
Question 8 of 10
You are an administrator at an apprenticeship training provider. Funding requires evidence that each apprentice has completed a minimum number of training hours. Reviewing records before an audit you find one apprentice is short by several hours. Your colleague suggests recording two workplace sessions that were discussed but never delivered, saying the apprentice learned the content anyway. Your centre manager is available. Which response below would be most effective, and which would be least effective?
Most effective: A. Record only the hours actually delivered, and ask the centre manager whether the missing sessions can be delivered before the audit so the apprentice is not disadvantaged.
Least effective: D. Record the two undelivered sessions as your colleague suggests, since the apprentice has covered the content in practice and the funding would otherwise be lost.
B: Delays the decision: an accurate record is right and simply letting the audit find it wastes the time available to deliver the missing sessions before the deadline, which would solve it properly.
C: Passes responsibility to others: it steps back from a false entry you know is about to be made, which leaves the falsification to happen with your knowledge and without your name on it.
D: Falsifies a funding record: it certifies training that never took place in order to claim public money, and the apprentice is left without hours they are entitled to. That is fraud, not a technical correction.
The most effective response is to record only the hours actually delivered and ask the centre manager whether the missing sessions can be delivered before the audit: the record must show what happened, and the apprentice’s real problem, missing hours they are entitled to, may still be solvable. The centre manager is the person who can arrange that. It beats correcting the record and submitting it with the shortfall visible for the audit to find, because that gives up on the hours the apprentice should actually receive. It beats leaving the record alone and letting your colleague enter the sessions herself, because stepping aside lets the falsification happen anyway. The least effective response is recording the two undelivered sessions as she suggests: it certifies training that never happened in order to claim funding, which is fraud and leaves the apprentice without the hours as well. That is worse than the other two, which keep the record honest. The principle: record only what happened, and use the time you have to deliver what is missing rather than to claim it.
Question 9 of 10
You are an office administrator at a commercial printing company. While filing paperwork you notice that the shared template the sales team uses for customer quotes still contains last year’s paper prices, which rose noticeably in January. Nobody has been asked to look at the template, and two salespeople are preparing quotes with it this week. The current prices are held in the purchasing system, which you can access. Which response below would be most effective, and which would be least effective?
Most effective: D. Check the current prices in the purchasing system, update the template to match, and tell the two salespeople and the sales manager what you found and changed.
Least effective: B. Mention to this month's new starter that the template could do with tidying up when they get a chance, without explaining that the prices are wrong, and return to your filing.
A: Acts on assumptions without checking: even flagged as provisional, remembered figures are still guesses in a live quoting template, and the purchasing system could give you the accurate prices in roughly the time the guesswork takes.
B: Dumps the problem on the least able person: a vague request to tidy up the template, with no mention that its prices are wrong or that live quotes depend on it, buries the risk you spotted with the one person who cannot recognise it. That is abandonment, not a handover.
C: Passes responsibility to others: the sales manager does own the quoting process, but leaving the whole correction in their inbox lets this week's quotes go out on old prices, when you could fix the figures accurately now and simply tell them.
The most effective response is to check the current prices in the purchasing system, update the template to match, and tell the salespeople and their manager what you found: you spotted the problem, the accurate figures are within your reach, and quoting is live this week, so fixing it and informing the owners removes the risk. It beats updating the template from the prices you remember and marking them provisional, because the purchasing system could supply the real figures just as quickly, and the salespeople would otherwise be quoting from flagged guesses. It beats emailing the sales manager and leaving the correction with them, because that gives the owner the full picture but leaves the fix waiting in an inbox while this week’s quotes are prepared, when you could complete it accurately straight away. The least effective response is asking the new starter to tidy the template up sometime: unlike using remembered figures, which at least moves them closer to reality and flags the doubt, and unlike emailing the manager, which tells the responsible person exactly what is wrong, it hands a vague job to the one person who cannot know the prices are wrong, so the risk you spotted disappears with nobody equipped to act on it. The principle: when you spot an unowned problem you can fix, verify the facts, fix it, and tell the people it affects. Never bury it with someone who cannot recognise it.
Question 10 of 10
You are a library assistant at a university. Your colleague Priya is covering the enquiry desk alone during the lunch hour while you shelve returns. Walking past, you see six students queuing and Priya working through them one at a time; a seventh gives up and leaves. Shelving is a routine task with no deadline attached to it. Priya has not asked for help and looks flustered. Which response below would be most effective, and which would be least effective?
Most effective: B. Go to the desk, tell Priya you are free and will take the next student, and work through the queue with her until it clears before going back to the shelving.
Least effective: C. Carry on shelving, since the desk is Priya's responsibility during the lunch hour and stepping in uninvited might suggest to her that you think she cannot cope on her own.
A: Delays the decision: the rota may well need looking at, but that fixes next week. It leaves the six students in front of you queuing now, when you are free and trained to serve them.
C: Prioritises harmony over honesty: it dresses up doing nothing as respect for a colleague, while students give up and leave. Standing by a visible problem to avoid an awkward moment is avoidance, not tact.
D: Substitutes own judgement for the stakeholder's: a flustered colleague in front of a queue will usually say she is coping, so the offer as phrased gives her the harder answer to give and the queue stays.
The most effective response is to go to the desk, tell Priya you are free, and work the queue with her until it clears: the queue is visible, you are on a task with no deadline, and the fastest fix is a second person serving. Saying you are free and taking the next student removes the need for her to admit she is struggling. It beats reporting the understaffing to the duty manager, because a rota review helps tomorrow’s queue, not this one, while you are standing free beside it. It beats asking her whether she would like a hand, because putting that question to a flustered colleague in front of students invites the polite refusal, so it is well meant but predictably leaves the queue where it is. The least effective response is carrying on shelving because the desk is her responsibility: it is the only response where nobody helps and students continue to leave, and it justifies that by a concern about how she might feel rather than anything she has said. That is worse than telling the duty manager, which at least acts on the problem, and worse than offering, which at least opens the conversation. The principle: when a colleague is visibly swamped and your own task can wait, step in and start helping rather than asking whether help is wanted.
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