Plum assessment / Discovery Survey
Plum Discovery Survey practice
Try the three choice formats in Plum's survey: most and least like you, three words each way, and the best and worst response at work.
Always free. Built from Plum's own candidate help pages, which describe each section's format. Puzzles, statements and situations here are ours.
How Discovery Survey works
- Section 1 style: from a small set of statements, pick one least like you and one most like you.
- Section 3 style: from a list of words, pick three least like you and three most like you. Next stays greyed out until both columns have three.
- Section 5 style: read a work situation, then pick the least effective and the most effective response.
- Sections 2 and 4 are puzzles; practise those in Problem Solving.
Time and scoring
About 5 minutes. Nothing is scored here. In the real survey the personality sections have no right answers, while the situations are scored to a key Plum does not publish.
Tips
- Answer for how you actually work, not how you think you should. Plum says faked answers tend to flatten a profile.
- When no option fits, pick the one that fits a little better; that is how forced choice is meant to work.
- If Next will not light up, count your picks: each column needs its full number.
Questions
Can you fail the Plum assessment?
There is no pass mark. Plum compares your talents with what the employer wants for the role, so it is a match, not a test you pass.
Why can I not click Next in the Plum survey?
Plum's help page says Next stays inactive until you pick the required answers: one each side in section 1, three each side in section 3, and one each side in section 5.