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Is Ashurst's Cognify test a joke?

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Would you be able to tell us more details about how this would work?

It varies from firm to firm. Scoring system will just be there for consistency - what weighting of what they are scoring will be different from firm to firm but will be based on all the usual important bits of an application form you would expect.
 

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Does anyone know if the percentile score for cognify / emotify you're given is based on a pool of applicants, or just based on every since person who:s ever done the test before you?
 

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