Arctic Shores tasks / Expressions
Arctic Shores Expressions practice
Fifty faces, one at a time. Pick the emotion each shows from eight labels. There is no time limit.
One full free game, then a Arctic Shores pass ($4.99 for 30 days, paid once) for unlimited practice. Built from Arctic Shores' candidate help pages and the account of a candidate who took the real assessment three times (PwC, KPMG and HSBC apprenticeships), checked against what other practice sites report. No recording of the real test is public; screens and wording are ours.
How Expressions works
- Each face shows one emotion. You click its label: anger, contempt, disgust, enjoyment, fear, neutral, sadness or surprise.
- The candidate who took the real test lists those eight; other sources say seven options. Later faces are subtler.
- It is not timed. You can take a few seconds on each face.
- Practice faces are our own drawings, not photos of real people. The real faces look different.
Time and scoring
About 3 to 5 minutes, untimed. Arctic Shores does not publish how tasks are scored and says there is no right way to approach them. Practice shows the raw measures a task like this records, so you can see how you play; it is not your real result.
Tips
- Do not rush. The candidate scored 1 out of 10 on emotion recognition after racing through it, and 9 out of 10 the next time by taking three to five seconds a face.
- Contempt is the one-sided expression: one mouth corner tightens and lifts.
- Fear and surprise both raise the eyebrows; in fear they are drawn together. Anger presses the lips; disgust wrinkles the nose.
Questions
Is Arctic Shores Expressions timed?
No, by the account of a candidate who took it. The fast tasks before it make people think it is; it is not.
Are the faces real people?
Candidates describe drawn or computer-made faces. Ours are drawings we made; we do not use the test maker's pictures.