How to Succeed at Psychometric Tests
Employers often administer psychometric tests to job candidates to determine aptitude for certain skills, intelligence levels and for personality typing. The tests also provide insight into how well an individual works in a team environment, handles stress and whether the candidate can cope with the intellectual demands of the job.
Instructions
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Understand the thought process of the people who score the test. Thinking like an HR manager will help you understand what answers they want, which will help you decide which answers to give.
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Practice. There are numerous online sites that provide practice and mock psychometric tests. Do several of these practice tests to get a feel for how employers word the questions and what topics they may cover.
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Time your practice tests to get used to taking tests under time constraints. Potential employers will time your psychometric tests. It's best to get used to the stress of the ticking clock before the real test.
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Brush up on basic skills like vocabulary and basic math. Both vocabulary and math are standard elements on psychometric test so you're sure to run into questions dealing with both subjects in any test given by a potential employer.
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Read the questions carefully. Psychometric tests are notorious for tricky language and question construction. You need to know what the question is asking before you can answer it, so read carefully.
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Answer and move on during the test. If you come to a question you can't answer, mark your best guess and move on. Come back to it later if there's time, but don't sacrifice the rest of the test by obsessing over a single question.
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Tips & Warnings
Try to work fast, but don't worry if you can't finish the test. The tests aren't geared for everyone to finish. Your score is based only on the questions you answer, so you can only get points for the questions you answer, not for those you don't.
