The Aptitude Test Workbook

Discover Your Potential and Improve Your Career Options with Practice Psychometric Tests

Jim Barrett

• Verlag: Kogan Page
• Jahr: 2011
• ISBN:
  9780749461911
• Auflage: 2
• Thema: Personal Development
• Thema: Careers

Many organizations and educational institutions use psychometric testing to uncover candidates' abilities and asses their potential. The Aptitude Test Workbook will help candidates prepare for these tests and give them an awareness of their strengths and where they could take you. A companion to Test Your Own Aptitude, it contains 16 tests with over 400 questions - verbal, numerical, perceptual, spatial and practical. With new detailed explanations to aid your learning as well as real life assessments, this new edition is a vital read. Packed with practical advice, help sections and expert tips, it will help the reader improve their key skills and find their ultimate career direction.

C H A P T E R1

Verbal tests

Test 1, ‘Word skills’, is a test of how well you understand words. Language tests are often the most complex, because a word may be used in many different ways. Words are slippery, with alternative, deeper or hidden meanings.

In Test 2, ‘Verbal concepts’, vocabulary is still important, but less so than perceiving what idea or association connects some words and not others. Rather than recognize the individual meanings of words, you are expected to work out those that form a ‘set’ or group. This test requires both a level of learning and experience and quickness in thinking.

In Test 3, ‘Critical application’, vocabulary is far less important than the ability to reason. While you will find that in Tests 1 and 2 you will, more or less, either know the answer or not, with Test 3 you may need to take your time until you arrive at the answer. Possible ways of doing this are explained later on.

Preparation and revision (optional)

We use the parts of speech every day without thinking. They make sense of what we say. We have grown up to learn to use them properly in order that people can understand us and we are able to understand them. But, if you are going to take any kind of verbal test, make sure you understand the difference between the following:

Adjective	makes exact the meaning of a noun (eg blue, short, happy)
Noun	name of a person, place or th...