Academic advising

About this practice suite

This suite prepares candidates for academic advising selection in the education and educational support sector with 5 skill areas: situational judgment, planning and scheduling exercises, verbal reasoning, critical thinking and customer-service judgment. Every question was written by Novus editors for this suite — none are taken from live or leaked exams — and the full bank holds 52 scored questions across three modes, plus 8 reserve questions used to vary repeat attempts. Answer keys never ship to the browser: your answers are scored server-side, and results stay on your device.

Skills this suite practises

• Situational judgment — Evaluating workplace responses against role-relevant principles.
• Planning and scheduling exercises — Resources, dependencies, deadlines, constraints, and contingency planning.
• Verbal reasoning — Drawing conclusions from written information without relying on outside assumptions.
• Critical thinking — Evaluating evidence, assumptions, arguments, credibility, and alternative explanations.
• Customer-service judgment — Service recovery, communication, escalation, and policy application.

Sample questions from the guided bank

Two of the 10 guided-practice questions, shown exactly as they appear in a session. Answers and explanations are not printed here — keys stay on the server — so open guided practice to answer them and see how you did.

1. When building a degree plan, an advisor should first verify:

   • A. The student’s favorite social app
   • B. Whether the advisor likes the electives
   • C. Only the student’s roommate’s major
   • D. Catalog year requirements, prerequisites, and remaining credits toward the declared program

2. A student in crisis discloses suicidal thoughts during an advising meeting. Best educational boundary?

   • A. Attempt long-term therapy in the advising office
   • B. Ignore and continue course planning only
   • C. Follow campus protocol: connect to counseling/emergency resources; do not act as a therapist
   • D. Promise confidentiality that blocks all help

Practice modes and timing

Guided practice is untimed-feeling and instructional; the mini-test is a short timed check; the full simulation mirrors a complete sitting. All three draw on separate question sets, so moving up a mode never repeats what you practised.

Study outline

Read the study outline for this suite’s skills, timings, and recommended lessons on one printable page, or download its standalone HTML file. The printable page can also be saved as a PDF from your browser.