APTITUDE TEST.pdf

OM VERMA
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
GRACIOUS COLLEGE OF NURSING ABHANPUR RAIPUR CG

2. GRACIOUS COLLEGE OF NURSING
RAIPUR
APTITUDE TEST
PRESENTED BY
OM VERMA
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

3. APTITUDE TEST
An aptitude is a component of a competency to do a certain kind of work at a certain level, which can also be considered "
talent“
to do a certain kind of work at a certain level, which can also be considered "
talent“
.Aptitude may be physical or mental.
Aptitude is not knowledge, understanding,
learned or acquired abilities (skills) or learned or acquired abilities (skills) or attitude. The innate nature of aptitude is in
contrast to achievement, which represents
knowledge or ability that is gained.

4. Refers to those qualities characterizing a
persons' way of behavior which serve to
indicate how well he can learn to meet indicate how well he can learn to meet and solve a certain specified kinds of
problem.

5. •Meaning
•Aptitudes means ability or a particular skill or a
potential.
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While intelligence is a measure of general ability, aptitude is a special ability.
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While intelligence is a measure of general ability, aptitude is a special ability.
•It is the special fitness for a special ability suc h as
mechanical, musical, artistic or scholastic.
•Aptitudes is neither completely inborn nor
acquired.
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It is the outcome of both heredity and
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It is the outcome of both heredity and environment.
•Aptitudes are talent potentials but can be
improved by training in environment.

6. Aptitude Testing
-Measure or assess the degree or level of one's
special bent or flair.
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Aptitude tests are used as diagnostic or
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Aptitude tests are used as diagnostic or identifying tools.
-A person who has aptitude for a particular
skill needs only a minimum training for
development.
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Aptitude tests that are used to help to predict
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Aptitude tests that are used to help to predict success in some particular course of study are
called scholastic aptitude tests (SAT).

7. 
The differential aptitude test (DAT)
developed by George K. Bennet, Harold G.
Seashor
and Alexander measures verbal
Seashor
and Alexander measures verbal
reasoning, numerical ability, abstract
reasoning, spacialrelationships,
mechanical reasoning and clerical
(managing )ability
.
(managing )ability
.

8. Verbal Reasoning
Numeric Reasoning Numeric Reasoning Abstract Reasoning
Aptitude ability tests Sp atial Reasoning
Mechanical Reasoning
Data checking

9. •Unity of aptitude tests
•Backbone of the guidance services For
educational and vocational selection
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Properly anticipate the future potentialities or
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Properly anticipate the future potentialities or capacities of individuals.
•Purposeful guidance and counseling
programmeor entrance examination to
specialized procedures for specialized jobs.
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It combined with the other information
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It combined with the other information received through interest inventory,
personality tests and cumulative record etc.

10. Significance of aptitude
1. Aptitude tests are used for a variety of purposes
and are administered by assorted sources.
2.
Teachers use these tests to measure their students' performances, schools may use them to
2.
Teachers use these tests to measure their students' performances, schools may use them to determine an individual's knowledge within
certain fields,
3. And employers often use them to identify the
candidate that's most capable or best suited for a
job. job.
4. In addition, aptitude based tests are regarded as
one of the most useful varieties of career tests.

11. Purposes
Educational Purposes
Aptitude tests that are intended for Aptitude tests that are intended for educational use include the Scholastic
Assessment Test (SAT), the American College
Testing Exam (ACT) and the Differential
Aptitude Test (DAT), which assesses one's
particular skills and overa !! academic
competency. The Differential Aptitude Test is competency. The Differential Aptitude Test is also one of the most commonly used tests for
personnel -and career assessments.

12. Occupational Purposes
Many aptitude tests are created to
check an individual's specific skills that
are relevant to the job at hand. For are relevant to the job at hand. For staffing and assessment purposes,
employers utilize tests like the
Personality and Preference Inventory
(PAPI), Rust Alpha, Situational Judgment
Test,
GTIOS Psychometric Test
, PSL and
Test,
GTIOS Psychometric Test
, PSL and
Watson Glaser critical thinking test

13. Uses of aptitude tests
Aptitude tests have been observed to be a Aptitude tests have been observed to be a highly accurate tool for selection of the
right candidate as compared to the
interview, group discussion, written tests
and so on. Based on assumption, today an
increasing number of organizations now increasingly used as tool in recruitment increasing number of organizations now increasingly used as tool in recruitment process.

14. The aptitude tests thus used are
specially designed tests to measure
the ability to acquire/apply skills and the ability to acquire/apply skills and or knowledge to a specific type of job.
These skills are usually identified
when the vacancy is announced and
test is then engineered to identify the test is then engineered to identify the best fit candidate independent of
formal basic knowledge.

15. There are a wide variety of aptitude
tests such as:
1. Verbal:
This type of testing measures
1. Verbal:
This type of testing measures
critical verbal reasoning, which may
be important is sales/ marketing when
verbosity can motivate a consumer to
accept a scale, or change a from a accept a scale, or change a from a brand to another.

16. •2. Numerical: Significant in
banking, insurance and related banking, insurance and related fields where numbers and
reasoning with members make
the core of business.

17. 3. Clerical: This test measures the
ability of the candidate to notice
mistakes. The whole purpose of mistakes. The whole purpose of a clerk is to keep things smooth
and accurate-hence the tests are
designed to measure speed and
accuracy as well as the eye for it accuracy as well as the eye for it indentifying mistakes.

18. •4. Sensory: This test is for
people where coordination of
color, sound and visual color, sound and visual accuracy is important such as
textiles, interior decoration,
automobile industry, etc. automobile industry, etc.

19. •5. Spatial ability: These types of tests are
generally for those who choose a career in
space such as astronauts' or related careers.
•6. Mechanical ability: These tests are
designed to gauge now astute and fast the
candidate can interpret and solve problems
related to mechanical faults; engineers are usually game for the mechanical ability test. related to mechanical faults; engineers are usually game for the mechanical ability test.

20. •7. Diagrammatic dexterity:
This implies testing of logical
reasoning using pictures and reasoning using pictures and diagrams intend of test or
numbers.

21. •Types of Aptitude
1. Specialized (SAT): In specific
field or activities field or activities
2. Generalized (GAT): divided to
subtypes

22. •Mechanical tests
•Musical aptitude test
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Art judgment test
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Art judgment test
•Professional apt. tests: teaching
clerical, med, law, research etc.
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Scholastic aptitude tests in
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Scholastic aptitude tests in difficult courses of instruction.