An In-tray exercise is a paper based business simulation. For this exercise you will be given a scenario and a number of related documents, such as letters from the company, organisation charts and news reports. You will then be required to make decisions and produce responses to certain tasks.
Practice In-tray Exercises
[Edit]Practice In-tray tests are available - here.
Another good example of an In-tray exercise can be found on the University of Edinburgh's careers website. This particular In-tray test has been provided by KPMG.
Literature covering In-tray tests and E-tray tests is also available here.
For further information visit the WikiJob Aptitude Test forum.
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As a Team leader I do not agree with the answer to example 5 of the University of Edinburgh Career- it can be tiring if people continually bring press reports to your attention- they become time bandits. By all means share the information in the appropriate context. A really good In tray exercise can be downloaded at- http://www.ipmaac.org/conf02/ibprep.pdf This is the US Ministry of Justice Immigration and Naturalisation example test. Lot of memos/letters/e-mails to absorb and make decisions on. I also understand that the Civil Service Fast stream programme has a 'live ' intray exercise where the messages appear on screen.