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Succeed in the selection process: psychometric assessments
How can I prepare and improve?
Have a go. Practise aptitude tests and complete personality and values questionnaires online and receive emailed feedback report.
- Verbal and numerical tests provided by the careers Advisory Service, from Kenexa
- Verbal, numerical abstract reasoning tests provided by the Careers Advisory Service and the Alumni Fund, from Team Focus
- The Type Dynamics Indicator and the Values-based Indicator of Motivation. Provided by the Careers Advisory Service and the Alumni Fund, from Team Focus . These assessments are not the same format as those commonly used in selection. They are more for your own self-awareness, but can be good for familiarising yourself with taking personality assessments.
To improve further , use our information resources to find
further examples of those areas you struggled with and for examples
of tests other than verbal and numerical. Information resources include:
books, leaflets, files and further software on PCs in CAS and we
have many links to online resources.
Full list of resources for aptitude tests and personality
assessments.
You might need to refresh your Maths. This is a common issue so our information resources cover this too. You could also use the services provided by MASH – a University resource centre to help all students with their Maths and Statistics.
To practice further under test conditions attend one of our classroom
practice tests .
These are run by a qualified
tester and include a short one to one feedback session within a few
days of taking the tests.
Further guidance on tests
If you have any questions or would like guidance from a careers adviser on aptitude tests, you could attend a drop-in session. The careers adviser could go through a sample question with you, to help you understand what the test is designed to do, but please note that we are not able to go through whole test papers or provide coaching for aptitude tests.
The British Psychological Society has a Psychological Testing Centre which includes a public area with information on good practice in Psychological Testing.