Work Preferences Inventory free demo
In CAST-R · about 3 minutes · Pick a point on the agree-to-disagree scale
About the Work Preferences Inventory section
When EEI revised CAST into CAST-R it dropped the Mathematical Usage section and added the Work Preferences Inventory: EEI's own material describes 105 statements in 30 minutes on a five-point agree-to-disagree scale. It is the least covered part of the battery anywhere, partly because EEI does not provide practice for it — its published position is that practice covers tests of basic ability, not preferred work style, behavior and environment.
That does not mean there is nothing useful to do. A questionnaire this long is a pacing exercise: 105 statements in 30 minutes is about 17 seconds each, and people who agonize over individual items run out of time and start answering carelessly at exactly the point where consistency matters.
Our version uses original statements in the same format and gives you a plain-English summary of the preferences you expressed, plus a consistency check across similar statements. It is a mirror, not a score, and we make no claim about how any employer reads the real inventory.
Tips from practice
- Answer as you actually are at work, not as you imagine an ideal candidate would be.
- Keep moving. First reactions are usually the most consistent, and the clock is real.
- Expect similar statements to come round more than once. Answer them the same way because that is how you are, not because you are trying to remember what you said.
- Use the whole scale. Answering everything in the middle describes nobody.
Common questions
- Can you fail a work preferences questionnaire?
- No employer publishes how it uses this section, and we will not guess. Treat practice here as getting comfortable with the format and the pace, not as learning right answers — there are none to learn.
- Will I get this section?
- Only if your employer is using the revised battery. EEI's CAST-R material describes it, but most utilities still advertise the test as CAST, and the older description has Mathematical Usage in its place. If you are not sure which you will sit, prepare for both — they are both in Standard.
This demo is independent practice, written from publicly published descriptions of the section. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Edison Electric Institute or any utility, and it is not identical to any real test.