Treasury scrapped maths test for candidates in order to boost diversity
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Newly released documents show officials remove the assessment to increase diversity following a review of the department's 2019 graduate recruitment campaign.The documents suggest the "numerical reasoning test (NRT) was removed due to evidence of the test having adverse impact on candidate diversity".
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It was later added the "adverse impact" had fallen after the assessment was dropped in the 2020 recruitment campaign, reports The Spectator.
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