Dogma,
Listen to yourself, yes maybe we should attempt several applications to get into one of 'the world s best companies'. I would suggest this would only wash with wannabes looking for a first job - personally, I would laugh and leave if asked to do any of that rubbish today.
As for the maths test - I am still waiting for someone to give me some more complicated sums to do than calculations based on the three times table after 6,000 hours !
Oh,and for the record I passed both the thomson numerical and verbal tests some years ago..so don't try that comeback.