Ultimate Psychometric Tests: 1000 Questions and Answers for Verbal, Numerical, and Personality Tests, 5th Edition

Length: 296 pages
Edition: 5
Language: English
Publisher: Kogan Page
Publication Date: 2021-07-27
ISBN-10: 139860240X
ISBN-13: 9781398602403
Sales Rank: #8357012 (See Top 100 Books)

Don’t let a psychometric test – or your nerves – stand between you and your dream job.

Many interviews and assessment centres include psychometric testing as part of the hiring process, and fears about tests are all too common and undermine confidence and performance on the day. But practice makes perfect – and with over 1,000 exercises from all the major types of test, Ultimate Psychometric Tests is the ideal tool to help you get to grips with:

verbal and numerical reasoning
personality questionnaires
non-verbal and diagrammatic reasoning
spatial recognition and visual estimation
situational awareness
quantities and conversion tests

With each test supported by detailed answers and explanations, Ultimate Psychometric Tests will boost your confidence and your performance on the day, to help you land your next dream job.

About the Ultimate series…

The Ultimate series contains practical advice on essential job search skills to give you the best chance of getting the job you want. Taking you all the way from starting your job search to completing an interview, it includes guidance on CV or resume and cover letter writing, practice questions for passing aptitude, psychometric and IQ tests, and reliable advice for interviewing.

Preface
1 Psychometric tests and questionnaires: what are they?
2 How to pass psychometric tests and questionnaires
    The value of preparation and practice
    Get wise
    How much and what kind of practice
    Undertake two sorts of practice
    Set yourself a personal challenge
    The winning mindset
    What to do if you fail
3 Situational judgement and personality questionnaires
    Customer care
    Communicating with others
    Your approach to decision making
    Your approach to planning
    Managing people and resources
    Motivating yourself
    Features of your ideal role
    Your attitude towards risk
    Appropriate responses in work
    Situational awareness
4 Verbal reasoning
    Word link
    Word link – synonyms
    Word link – opposites
    Find the new word
    Word swap
    Sentence sequencing
    Best word(s) to complete a sentence
    English usage
    Identify the correct sentence or word(s)
    Read a passage and evaluate a statement
5 Numerical reasoning
    The key operations
    Sequencing
    Number problems
6 Non-verbal reasoning, mechanical comprehension and data interpretation
    Non-verbal reasoning
    Features in common
    Find the shape that completes the series
    Completing the series in columns and rows
    Mechanical comprehension
    Data interpretation
    Spatial recognition and visual estimation
    Input-type diagrammatic tests
7 In-work tests 
    What if there is a fire?
    Working safely
    Keeping company information secure
8 Answers and explanations
    Chapter 3 Situational judgement and personality questionnaires
    Chapter 4 Verbal reasoning
    Chapter 5 Numerical reasoning
    Chapter 6 Non-verbal reasoning, mechanical comprehension and data interpretation
    Chapter 7 In-work tests