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Error detection: full practice bank: open practice pack: answer key

100 untimed questions across 10 authored sections.

This is untimed educational practice for one cognitive skill. It is not a clinical, diagnostic, employment, or professionally recognized assessment, and it does not produce an IQ score or credential.

Answer key

ItemChoiceAnswer
error-detection-q1AIdentical
error-detection-q5AIdentical
error-detection-q2BDifferent
error-detection-s01-q04ATwo digits have changed places
error-detection-s01-q05BA letter has been dropped from the street name
error-detection-s01-q06CIn the month
error-detection-s01-q07DKTP-9034-BV
error-detection-s01-q08BTwo digits have swapped places
error-detection-s01-q09AOne version carries an extra trailing digit
error-detection-s01-q10CNo: the house number differs
error-detection-q3CC) 5502-8871-043
error-detection-q6DPD-500
error-detection-s02-q03BTL-3390-KD
error-detection-s02-q04C4437
error-detection-s02-q05Cr.okafor@medlim.co.uk
error-detection-s02-q06BG8-1174
error-detection-s02-q07DGH24680
error-detection-s02-q08A03/09
error-detection-s02-q09AQty 3.5
error-detection-s02-q10D2.4 mm
error-detection-q4BWeight differs
error-detection-s03-q02CThe party size
error-detection-s03-q03AThe cable length
error-detection-s03-q04DThe payroll total
error-detection-s03-q05BThe pallet count
error-detection-s03-q06DThe day and month have been reversed
error-detection-s03-q07CThe invoice total
error-detection-s03-q08AThe end date
error-detection-s03-q09BThe last four digits
error-detection-s03-q10DClosing
error-detection-s04-q01Acomittee
error-detection-s04-q02Boccurrence
error-detection-s04-q03Ceffect
error-detection-s04-q04Aseperate
error-detection-s04-q05Cmaintenence
error-detection-s04-q06BThe engineer checked the the pressure valve before the test.
error-detection-s04-q07Awhere
error-detection-s04-q08Caccommodation
error-detection-s04-q09Dthroughly
error-detection-s04-q10DThe panel recieved the evidence in three separate bundles.
error-detection-s05-q01BThe company's logo was redesigned last year.
error-detection-s05-q02DThe verb should be 'has', not 'have'.
error-detection-s05-q03BThe meeting overran, the vote was postponed.
error-detection-s05-q04AThe engineers' tools were returned on Friday.
error-detection-s05-q05CIt's been three weeks since the server lost its backup.
error-detection-s05-q06DHaving reviewed the figures, the report was signed by the auditor.
error-detection-s05-q07B'However' needs a semicolon or full stop before it, not a comma.
error-detection-s05-q08DShe opened the file and found the figures missing.
error-detection-s05-q09AThe trial ran for six weeks; the results were published in June.
error-detection-s05-q10CThe verb should agree with 'notes', giving 'were attached'.
error-detection-s06-q01AYes. The total is correct.
error-detection-s06-q02DThe line total should be £75.00.
error-detection-s06-q03AThe total is 10 too high.
error-detection-s06-q04BNo. The amount due should be £204.00.
error-detection-s06-q05CThere is no fault. The total is correct.
error-detection-s06-q06D192
error-detection-s06-q07A15%
error-detection-s06-q08BIt should be 355.
error-detection-s06-q09C£15.00
error-detection-s06-q10DNothing. The claim adds up correctly.
error-detection-s07-q01B31/04/2025
error-detection-s07-q02CMT-441
error-detection-s07-q03Bs.iqbal@nortonpress..co.uk
error-detection-s07-q04A104.2
error-detection-s07-q05C24:10
error-detection-s07-q06Bseven
error-detection-s07-q07Creport-03-2026.pdf
error-detection-s07-q08DLS114 BX
error-detection-s07-q09DA missing answer and an answer of zero mean different things.
error-detection-s07-q10AThe leading zeros were stripped when the value was read as a number.
error-detection-s08-q01AAn invoice is missing from the file.
error-detection-s08-q02CCortez
error-detection-s08-q03BA step number is repeated.
error-detection-s08-q04A34
error-detection-s08-q05CWhether page 15 is missing from this copy.
error-detection-s08-q06D£14.50
error-detection-s08-q07A11:00
error-detection-s08-q08COne entry has been placed as though 20 followed 2.
error-detection-s08-q09BRow 27
error-detection-s08-q10DOne scheduled reading is missing.
error-detection-s09-q01BThe invoice value, which is £10 below the agreed price.
error-detection-s09-q02DNo, only one of the two signatures is from a director.
error-detection-s09-q03AThe portal
error-detection-s09-q04CThe reminder, since nothing was overdue on 1 July
error-detection-s09-q05BThe 12-hour figure is a maximum and the 8-hour figure describes one specific condition.
error-detection-s09-q06DThe action list contains work for an option that was not approved.
error-detection-s09-q07ANo: 26 staff need at least four supervisors.
error-detection-s09-q08BCorrect-looking dates will be recorded against the wrong event.
error-detection-s09-q09CNo. One region did not rise.
error-detection-s09-q10DThe register overstates how long the control has been operating.
error-detection-s10-q01CSomething else happening at the same time could explain the rise.
error-detection-s10-q02DThe units examined cannot stand for the whole crate.
error-detection-s10-q03AConfirmation comes after the reset, so an unsaved reading is already lost.
error-detection-s10-q04CPassing the audit does not require accreditation, so the conclusion does not follow.
error-detection-s10-q05BThe average is inflated, because the total is counted as another value.
error-detection-s10-q06DCustomers who stopped using the site could never have been surveyed.
error-detection-s10-q07CThe same misunderstanding that caused an error will hide it at review.
error-detection-s10-q08AThe conditions on that machine may differ from those where the release will run.
error-detection-s10-q09DA percentage drawn from very small counts exaggerates ordinary variation.
error-detection-s10-q10BThe rule has been applied to a field where future dates are legitimate.