Benchmark · updated 14 November 2026

What 494 aptitude papers actually score

Every placement site tells you to practise aptitude. None of them tell you what the scores look like. These are the real results of 494 timed papers sat by 442 engineering students on HireEdge, drawn from a bank of 13,210 questions.

25 May 2026 – 13 November 2026. Recomputed from the live database each time this page loads.

60.0%median score

54.9%mean score

53%cleared the 60% cut

Just over half clear the 60% cut

Most campus processes cut at around 60%. 262 of 494 papers reached it — 53%, with the median paper landing at 60.0%. The distribution is not a neat bell: it has a crowd at the top and a long tail at the bottom.

80–100%

136 · 28%

60–79%

126 · 26%

40–59%

90 · 18%

20–39%

54 · 11%

Under 20%

88 · 18%

Quantitative is where most candidates lose it

For each paper we took the candidate's weakest section. In 55% of 456 papers that was Quantitative Aptitude — more than the other three put together.

Weakest section	Papers	Share
Quantitative Aptitude	253	55%
Verbal Ability	113	25%
Logical Reasoning	60	13%
Analytical Reasoning	30	7%

Average score by section

Section	Mean	Papers
Quantitative Aptitude	48.3%	456
Verbal Ability	49.8%	492
Logical Reasoning	60.2%	492
Analytical Reasoning	63.0%	456

The gap between the weakest and strongest section is 14.7 percentage points. If you have one evening before a test, that gap is where it belongs.

29% of papers are opened and abandoned

199 papers were started and closed without a single answer recorded. We have excluded them from every figure above — counting them as zeros would report 29% of all papers as scoring nothing, which is not what happened. It is worth knowing on its own: a timed, full-length paper is a bigger commitment than most people expect when they click.

What this is useful for. If you are preparing: the bar is 60%, the median is 60.0%, and quantitative is the section most likely to sink you. If you run a placement cell: roughly half a cohort clears a company's first filter on a first attempt, which is worth knowing before you set expectations with students.

Method, and what these numbers are not

494 papers from 442 registered students, 25 May 2026 to 13 Nov 2026.
Papers with no recorded answer are excluded (199 of them).
Seeded demonstration accounts are excluded.
Timed, multiple choice, from a bank of 13,210 questions weighted to the pattern each company actually uses.
Self-selected. These are students who chose to practise, not a random sample of Indian engineering students. They are likely to be more motivated than average, which would push scores up — and less prepared than a final-year cohort on test day, which would push them down. We cannot tell you the size of either effect.
Not an official score from any company. It is practice, measured.

Find out where you sit

Round 1 of any company simulation is free — no card, no credits. You get the same paper these numbers come from, and a section breakdown against the figures above.

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