Treasury scrapped maths test for candidates in order to boost diversity

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Treasury scrapped maths test for candidates in order to boost diversity

The Treasury ditched maths tests for candidates after officials came to the conclusion they had an adverse effect on candidates from ethnic minority backgrounds. 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 tes…