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How to Complete an Effective Psychometric Test |
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There are two types of psychometric test: an ability or a personality test. The ability assesses your abilities or aptitude and a personality tests how you behave in situations or how you prefer to work.
Ability Tests
- If you become more familiar with ability tests and the type of questions you are asked, it has been shown that scores do improve.
- There are a number of ability - but you are most likely to encounter a verbal, a numerical or a diagrammatical reasoning test. If you know in which you are weaker practice.
- Tests will normally give an element of preparation time and give sample questions so that you become familiar with what is being asked.
- As a rule of thumb: you need to complete 70 80% of the answers and get at least two thirds of those answered correct.
You can practice ability tests for free on www.shl.com
Click on the following to download practice tests
Diagrammatic Analysis Preparation Guide
Numerical Reasoning Preparation Guide
Verbal Reasoning Preparation Guide
Personality Tests
- Personality tests do not have a right or wrong answer so just answer honestly.
- The test is looking to find out more about the style in which you like to work it looks for characteristics.
- Dont try to make out that you have a different personality because you think it is what the company is looking for: the answers are inter-linked so any kind of skew in the results will indicate that you have been lying and there is nothing worse than this characteristic to an employer.
- Be honest, answer quickly and intuitively.
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