Test prep by role

Study only what your job's test asks

Employers test different skills for different roles. An admin assistant test rarely asks for INDEX and MATCH. A financial analyst test almost always does. Pick your role and skip the rest.

Each track pulls 10 or 11 of the 28 exercises. Skill lists describe what these jobs usually test, not any one employer's exact test.
Beginner

Administrative assistant

  • SUM, AVERAGE and percentages
  • Rounding and text in capitals
  • COUNTIF by region
  • VLOOKUP a manager
  • Year from a hire date
10 exercises5-question timed test
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Beginner

Data entry clerk

  • TRIM and PROPER to clean names
  • LEFT and & to build codes
  • COUNTIF on text
  • IFERROR for blanks
  • Pulling the year from a date
10 exercises5-question timed test
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Intermediate

Bookkeeper

  • SUMIF and SUMIFS
  • COUNTIF thresholds
  • Absolute references with $
  • VLOOKUP a rate, then calculate
  • IFERROR on division
11 exercises5-question timed test
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Intermediate

Office manager

  • Budget totals and averages
  • IF with a target
  • SUMIF and AVERAGEIF by region
  • VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP
  • Counting hires before a date
11 exercises5-question timed test
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Intermediate

HR coordinator

  • COUNTIF and COUNTIFS for headcount
  • Name cleanup with TRIM and PROPER
  • Years of service with DATEDIF
  • Hires before a cutoff date
  • Employee codes
11 exercises5-question timed test
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Advanced

Financial analyst

  • SUMIFS and COUNTIFS
  • Share of total with $ references
  • INDEX and MATCH
  • XLOOKUP
  • Lookup inside a calculation
11 exercises5-question timed test
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