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Oracle — Aptitude & Verbal

Twenty questions on one clock. Short, but the cut-off is sixty per cent.

The pattern and syllabus · 12 sample questions

No negative marking60% cut-offOne shared clock

The sitting

30 min

total time

20

questions

2

sections

None

negative marking

Start the test

The clock starts as soon as you click. Your paper is drawn fresh, so a second sitting is a different set.

Proctored sitting

  • Laptop or desktop only, with a webcam. Phones and tablets can't start a test.
  • The test runs full screen, with the site's navigation hidden.
  • Your webcam stays on and is checked on your computer — nothing is recorded or uploaded.
  • Leaving full screen, switching tab or window or minimising blurs the paper — and so does the camera seeing no one, someone else, a phone, or you looking away. The clock keeps running.
  • Each is a warning; the third ends the sitting. It is graded so you can review it, but marked disqualified and never counted as your best.
  • Pasting, copying, right-click and printing are off.

The paper

1

Aptitude Assessment

10 Q

15 min

Logical Reasoning · Quantitative Aptitude

2

Verbal Assessment

10 Q

15 min

Verbal Ability

Before you start

Oracle's MCQ block is small — ten aptitude and ten verbal — and shares its clock with the coding rounds in the real test.

  • One shared timer; move between the two sections as you like.
  • No negative marking, not adaptive.
  • The reported cut-off is sixty per cent on both sections.

Oracle's coding round and its distinctive API-making round, where candidates build a REST endpoint rather than solve a puzzle, are not part of this paper.

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Oracle — Aptitude & Verbal: Pattern, Syllabus & Mock Test

Oracle — Aptitude & Verbal pattern: 20 questions in 30 minutes across 2 sections. Sample questions, a preparation guide and a free timed mock.

  • Pattern: Oracle
  • Duration: 30 minutes
  • Questions: 20
  • Timing: Free — move between sections until the paper's clock ends
  • Negative marking: None

Twenty questions on one clock. Short, but the cut-off is sixty per cent.

  • No negative marking
  • 60% cut-off
  • One shared clock

Sections

SectionQuestionsTimeKindMarks each
Aptitude Assessment1015 minMultiple choice1
Verbal Assessment1015 minMultiple choice1

Oracle — Aptitude & Verbal syllabus

Aptitude Assessment

Verbal Assessment

Instructions

Oracle's MCQ block is small — ten aptitude and ten verbal — and shares its clock with the coding rounds in the real test.

  • One shared timer; move between the two sections as you like.
  • No negative marking, not adaptive.
  • The reported cut-off is sixty per cent on both sections.

Oracle's coding round and its distinctive API-making round, where candidates build a REST endpoint rather than solve a puzzle, are not part of this paper.

How to prepare for this pattern

A guide to the Oracle aptitude and verbal pattern: a short multiple-choice block of twenty questions on one clock, with a reported cut-off of sixty per cent.

What the paper looks like

Two sections: Aptitude Assessment, 10 questions, and Verbal Assessment, 10 questions. That is 20 questions on one shared 30-minute clock, budgeted at 15 minutes a section, and you may move between sections as you like and return to either. Each question is worth one mark, there is no negative marking and the paper is not adaptive. The reported cut-off is 60 per cent on both sections. In the real test this block shares a 90-minute clock with a coding problem and an API-making problem, in which candidates build a REST endpoint rather than solve a puzzle; neither is part of this paper. Other sources describe a different track with two or three coding problems and no API round.

How to prepare, section by section

On the day

Thirty minutes for twenty questions is ninety seconds each, which is generous. The risk here is not the clock but the cut-off: with ten questions a section, you can afford at most four mistakes in either section, however well the other goes. Use the shared clock to your advantage. Answer the verbal questions you are sure of first, then work the aptitude questions carefully, and spend the time left rechecking every answer in whichever section felt weaker. With no negative marking, no question should be left blank.

This mock is modelled on the published Oracle pattern as PrepInsta's pages describe it, crowd-sourced but internally consistent; CodeKairo is not affiliated with Oracle.

Practice questions for the Oracle — Aptitude & Verbal test

Five children, three years apart

The sum of the ages of five children born at intervals of 3 years each is 50 years. What is the age of the youngest?

  1. 4
  2. 6
  3. 8
  4. 10
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A. 4 Worked solution

Chef is to kitchen

Chef : Kitchen :: Judge : ?

  1. Law
  2. Court
  3. Justice
  4. Lawyer
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B. Court Worked solution

Seven consecutive numbers

The average of seven consecutive numbers is 20. What is the largest of them?

  1. 21
  2. 22
  3. 23
  4. 24
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C. 23 Worked solution

Ravi's mother and Rani

Ravi's mother is the only daughter of Rani's father. How is Rani related to Ravi?

  1. Aunt
  2. Sister
  3. Mother
  4. Grandmother
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C. Mother Worked solution

Counting from the right

Which is the seventh letter from the right in the English alphabet?

  1. S
  2. T
  3. U
  4. V
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B. T Worked solution

North then east

A man walks 4 km north, then 3 km east. How far is he from his starting point?

  1. 5 km
  2. 6 km
  3. 7 km
  4. 12 km
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A. 5 km Worked solution

The author's tone

The new scheme has been announced with considerable fanfare. Its targets are ambitious, its funding uncertain, and its timeline, by the admission of its own architects, optimistic. One waits with interest.

The author's tone is best described as:

  1. Indifferent
  2. Enthusiastic
  3. Sceptical
  4. Hostile
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C. Sceptical Worked solution

A contrasting pair

Fill in the blanks:

The first half of the match was ______, but the second was surprisingly ______.

  1. dull … tedious
  2. dull … lively
  3. exciting … thrilling
  4. slow … sluggish
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B. dull … lively Worked solution

A double negative

Choose the correct sentence:

  1. I did not see nobody in the hall.
  2. I did not see anybody in the hall.
  3. I did not saw anybody in the hall.
  4. I have not seen nobody in the hall.
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B. I did not see anybody in the hall. Worked solution

Stationary or stationery

Choose the sentence in which the word is used correctly:

  1. He bought pens from the stationary shop.
  2. The car remained stationery at the signal.
  3. The car remained stationary at the signal.
  4. She keeps her stationary in a drawer.
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C. The car remained stationary at the signal. Worked solution

The meaning of a term

Planners once assumed that widening a road would ease congestion. Decades of evidence suggest otherwise. Additional capacity lowers the effective cost of driving, which draws in journeys that were previously not made at all, until the road is as crowded as before. Economists call this induced demand. The finding does not mean roads should never be built, but it does mean that congestion cannot be engineered away by supply alone.

As used in the passage, 'induced demand' refers to:

  1. Journeys that were not made before but are made once capacity increases
  2. Demand created by advertising
  3. The cost of building new roads
  4. Congestion caused by accidents
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A. Journeys that were not made before but are made once capacity increases Worked solution

Arranging a paragraph

Arrange the sentences into a coherent paragraph:

P. It soon spread along trade routes to the west. Q. Tea was first drunk in China thousands of years ago. R. Today it is the most widely consumed drink after water. S. By the seventeenth century it had reached Europe.

  1. Q P S R
  2. Q S P R
  3. P Q S R
  4. P S Q R
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A. Q P S R Worked solution

About this pattern

Crowd-sourced but internally consistent across PrepInsta's Oracle pages: 10 aptitude, 10 verbal, one coding and one API question in a shared 90 minutes. Other sources describe a different track with two or three coding problems and no API round.

Modelled on the published pattern; not affiliated with Oracle. Every sitting draws a fresh paper from the aptitude bank.

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