AT&T publishes a study guide for many of its hiring tests, so find yours before you practise anything else

AT&T's pre-employment tests for front-line roles check following directions, reading accuracy and quick reasoning, and prep sites add logic and conversion problems. Our Wonderlic-style test drills that kind of short, mixed, timed reasoning, and our mechanical test covers the mechanical and spatial items prep sites mention for technical jobs.

We do not imitate AT&T's spelling and clerical checking sections, the Call Center Virtual Job Tryout's work scenarios, or any job-knowledge content. AT&T publishes a study guide for many of its tests, and that guide is the closer match for the one you are invited to; use ours for timed reasoning practice alongside it.

AT&T does something most large employers do not: it posts study guides for its own hiring tests, organized by job category. The company says it may use a pre-employment test to confirm that your skills, knowledge and abilities fit the role, and that some of those tests come with a guide to help you prepare.

So before you buy anything or practise generic questions, read the name of the test in your invitation and find its guide on att.jobs. A guide written by the employer tells you more about format and content than any outside site can.

The Operator II Telephone Ability Battery guide covers three areas: following directions, reading accuracy and spelling. These are speed-and-precision skills. Each item is easy taken alone; the difficulty is getting dozens right in a row without a slip.

That rewards a steady rhythm over clever reasoning. Read every instruction to the end before you act on it, check names and numbers character by character, and resist the urge to speed up once you feel comfortable.

Prep sites describe AT&T tests that include logical reasoning, mechanical and spatial items, and conversion problems, alongside attention to detail and reading. Those are the parts general practice can move. A short timed test such as our Wonderlic practice test trains switching between word, number and logic questions without losing pace.

If you are applying for a technician or field role, add mechanical practice. Our mechanical aptitude test covers gears, levers and pulleys, the topics prep sites associate with AT&T's technical screens. Treat both as supplements to AT&T's own guide, not substitutes.

The Sales Support Representative Test, the Technical Sales Assessment and the Call Center Virtual Job Tryout each have their own guide. Virtual job tryouts in general place you in realistic work scenarios and ask how you would respond; AT&T's guide describes its own version.

For these, consistency matters more than raw speed. Think about what AT&T's customer-facing roles reward: listening, solving the customer's actual problem, and following process. Our situational judgement guide explains how scenario questions are usually scored.

These come from anonymous reviews, university careers pages and prep guides. They often disagree, and AT&T has not confirmed them. Read them as leads, not rules.

• Prep sites describe AT&T tests covering attention to detail, logical reasoning, following instructions and reading accuracy.
• One prep guide says AT&T questions may include logical, mechanical, spatial relations and conversion problems.
• Third-party practice providers such as JobTestPrep note that they are not affiliated with AT&T.