The psychometric test I just took involved 3 tests. Verbal, logical and just a personality questionaire.
Assuming I did well in the verbal test, the personality results are what the are looking for and I did not do too well in the logic test?
Should I still get a call for an interview?
The actual logical test was 10x more difficult than the practice test I was given... :/
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What the hell is a psychometric test and why did my firm never give me one
Also curious. I just pissed in a cup and was fingerprinted.
You'll be surprised how low the bar is for these test. Should be fine.
To the US guys, these tests are given out for pretty much all pre-interview screening in Europe (and by the sounds of it South Africa) and usually resat in the first round of interviewing (only to check that you're scores correlate and you didn't cheat) . They are akin to IQ tests in format and style, usually 20-30mins each with the main challenge being time constraints and not difficulty of content.
My non-target brain wouldn't be able to handle it.
Narr you'd dominate. My non-target brain smashed the logic test so much it came up in the interview how wonderful I was at logic problems compared to my woeful academics.
Lol, I took one for Macquarie in the past. I believe they have a base level hurdle that everyone has to clear to proceed on to the next stage of the interview process. HR usually gets this info pretty quickly, so you should be able to follow up with them the next day and find out how you did.
Psychometric (Originally Posted: 07/12/2010)
Hi, I am wondering what the psychometric tests are for the different firms and within each type of test eg PHL and SHL what are tested eg Verbal, numerical, personality, logic
As far as I know, UBS: SHL, Numeric and Logical DB: PHL, Numeric and Verbal Macq: SHL, Numeric, Verbal and Personality
Lets see if we can keep the lists going
HSBC: SHL CS: SHL
Psychometric Assessments (Originally Posted: 10/14/2011)
How do you prepare for these?
I have an IQ of 135 (WAIS) but I still find the abstract reasoning sections difficult.
The actual tests seem to be much harder than the questions found in the practice tests. Anyone know where I can find some good practice problems online?
I've attached an example problem. What's the solution?
My guess would be A.
Answer is A
How is it that you scored a 135 but are not familiar with psych evals?
You do not have a 135 if the answer A does not jump out at you almost immediately, that is like a kindergarten psychometric question
135 is not that high of an IQ score....I guess I'm just not as smart as you guys.
Seriously though, how are you guys coming up with A? I've been staring at this thing for hours and I don't see any patterns. I ruled out C & E because they are triangle/square patterns and B & D because they are identical to the adjacent boxes....Is this right?????
135 is not that high of an IQ score....I guess I'm just not as smart as you guys.
Seriously though, how are you guys coming up with A? I've been staring at this thing for hours and I don't see any patterns. I ruled out C & E because they are triangle/square patterns and B & D because they are identical to the adjacent boxes....Is this right?????
Who uses psychometric analysis? Which companies? Thanks!
135 is weak dogg. next time, prepare by having smarter parents.
Basic logic would indicate you should have been selected out of the gene pool a long time ago, congrats on making it this far!
Is this in the UK? I have never had to take a written test in the US. I've heard of McKinsey doing some psuedo-SAT exam, but not like this.
i think it's C
did u apply at TRON ?
Actually, I was asking a serious question: to even know your IQ, you typically have to take a battery of tests with similar questions. 135 is a very respectable IQ, and is MORE than enough for most finance jobs. I was just wondering how this type of question was so foreign to you......
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