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Guest · Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 8:21 pm Post subject: Psycometric test

I am looking for sample Psycometric test do you have sample Psycometric test please ?

JoJo · Guest

These 2 books are a good source of advice and samples for Psycometric tests
or better - Psychometric tests-

HOW TO MASTER PSYCHOMETRIC TESTS
Passing Psychometric Tests

TINA · Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 12:09 am Post subject: Intelligence Testing

Let me try this topic again. Psychmetric testing.

It is my belief that that may mean intelligence testing or IQ tests. Intelligence cannot be measured this way as not everything someone knows would be on the tests. How does one measure intelligence? How does one measure the brain and its powers? There are print outs of tests that doctors use to evaluate percentages or other measurements to see if someone has a high IQ or a low IQ or normal intelligence level. This is something that teachers as well as doctors may wish to use when trying to sort out someone like perhaps a child in school and their behavior issues. Control as to whether they bite people, poor hygiene, whether they are out of control and are dangerous, etc., and then the doctor (teachers) can perhaps view those test results and see what the computer said and how it would relate to the person and their behavior. They could perhaps better solve problems the person is having intellectually.

Is this a better answer? I think so.

Guest · Guest

All you'll have to do is click this link here which goes to Yahoo Search Engine. It is not recommending any specific site or link. I have no idea what this means as I never heard of this word. I am simply offering you some assistance in finding what you may need.

You can go to google and yahoo and do searches yourself. Put in whatever word you are looking for the keywords you want to know more about. You can also go over to ask.com and askjeeves.com and Altavista Search sites and look up the same type of thing. This will help you learn how to search better, as well as learning about the psychmetric word and what types of examples you can find online.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=psychmetric+tests&fr=FP-tab-web-t&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8

That took me to something that said, You mean psychometric tests? So I think we may have a misspelled word here?? What type of school/class are you going to that needs samples of testing like this?

Put in search words like the following in those major search engines and that should answer your many questions:

Psych
Psychmetric examples
Psychometric examples
Pschmetric testing
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psycho testing
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Camilla · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:28 am Post subject:

A psycometric test is a way of either defining the type of career a person would be best suited to or whether they're suited to the specific job they're applying for. They also help pin-point particular areas that could be problematic.

It was developed by psychologists and has absolutely nothing to do with measuring IQ (intelligence quota).

Lots of companies use them now. A friend of mine applied for a part-time job with one of our major supermarket chains and had to fill out a form that was, in affect, a psycometric test.

You can try one here:

http://www.peoplemaps.co.uk/personality/questionnaire1.html

This isn't a personal recommendation as I've never tried it. I simply did a search and came up with a free test to try.

As far as measuring a person's IQ goes, I'm not sure I agree with Tina. Mensa seems pretty certain they can tell through their tests whether a person has a high IQ or not. The tests aren't based on the amount of knowledge a person has because knowledge and intelligence are two very separate things. A person with an IQ of 155 might have very little knowledge whilst a person who's very knowledgeable may have an IQ of 125. Intelligence is measured by the ability to understand and solve a problem quickly.

Camilla

johanna nhlapo · Guest

cv · Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 9:06 am Post subject: Online career tests

You can find some more tests in this thread : Online career tests

Cameron

Do you know whether you’re an ENFP or an ISTJ? I would not put too much importance on the answer. Some of the better career tools, like those we use at my company, are based on essays designed to foster personal engagement and much thought, not on multiple-choice answers where any conclusions about you arrive after all the data has been fed into a computer.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or MBTI, the Enneagram, and other typing tests have been dubbed “the new astrology.” The MBTI has 16 types, just as the zodiac has 12, while the Enneagram has streamlined things to a mere 9. You get your type, and, the implication is, you are like everyone else in your category. You will probably like the jobs that have been thoughtfully collected for your category: dishwasher, actress, an analytical profession, a bartender. That’s just what ENTJs, 6s, and Geminis like, you see. What a relief!

Carl Jung, from whose work the MBTI was derived, thought that assigning people to categories was based on a poor understanding of his work, and he labeled type categories “childish parlor games.” But the problems with the typologies don’t end with their limited usefulness. There is also the reason we seek out our type in the first place, a reason that is quite problematic.

More fundamentally, typologies are fruitless attempts to achieve certainty about the self and to banish the unbanishable, ambiguity: "What kind am I? Oh, I’m that kind." "Who am I? Look, there I am, page 374." "Who is the real me? Why, here I be." In short, certainty is not only an impossible aim, making it a futile and wasteful quest, but the search represents an attachment to being defined by external events, which of course we can never control.

It also powerfully signifies a lack of trust in one’s self and one’s own instincts, which is a step precisely in the wrong direction. Typologies can breed the very dependence on something outside yourself that they claim to want to help rid you of.

Finally, the personality types are all arrived at through a fundamentally passive process. Pick these multiple-choice answers and we’ll tell you who you are. I’m reminded powerfully of exams in the very public universities.

Multiple-choice isn’t argued for by anyone as being a superior learning tool; it’s just a lot more convenient than grading 500 essays a semester. But when serious students, whether of life or economics classes, have a choice, how do they wish to learn?

By voice, by the written word, and lastly by doing. By the teacher or students teaching each other, and by the student writing what she has learned. The writing requires a fuller sense of the interplay among ideas, the crossing of disciplinary silos, a real synthesis of one’s material, which is to say a mastery of what one has learned.

Coaching follows a very similar Socratic model: tell me what you know; listen to yourself as you say it. Hamlet-like, in overhearing yourself, you unearth and then remake yourself.

Dialogue, then, is Socratic, when it comes in the form of a dialectic, between two points of view. It is Hamlettian when it comes from a person speaking him- or herself into existence. Writing, moreover, is meditative as well as exploratory. These are our roads inward, which are paradoxically the only roads that lead beyond. Are you ready to be, have you readied yourself to be, a conquistador of internal landscapes?

If you are, do, for the universe rewards action, and find someone to whom to speak, for most of us have never been let ourselves be really listened to by another. It's powerful stuff.

At the very least, find some essay-based resources, of the sort in "What Color is Your Parachute?" and do it yourself.

Richard · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:16 am Post subject:

Interesting stuff Cameron.

I didn't realise that psychometric tests were still popular. There was a big fad for them in the early to mid 90s and a huge industry built up around them that struck as job creation among bored recruitment specialists. Quite for whose benefit they were meant is debatable.

Here's a free resource:

http://www.derby.ac.uk/careers/onlinepsychotesting.htm

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