How to Pass Technical Selection Tests (Testing Series) - Softcover

Bryon, Mike; Modha, Sanjay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749443758 ISBN 13: 9780749443757

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2005

Synopsis

Selection tests represent one of the greatest obstacles facing applicants for jobs, courses and apprenticeships: as a technician, in the building trades, construction industry, mechanical or electrical engineering. Many candidates do not pass such tests, or fail to show their true potential, due to nervousness, lack of practice, or lack of technique.

This fully revised and expanded second edition will be invaluable to anyone faced with a selection test for a role in engineering or the construction industry. Based on real life preparation programmes devised by the authors, it contains reliable advice on the most common types of technical tests, why they are used and how to prepare for them, plus a dictionary of essential terms that any candidate will encounter. There are hundreds of practice questions with answers and explanations, so that applicants can assess their performance, boost their confidence and learn to cope with anxiety. The practice material includes verbal and numerical psychometric test questions, plus tests of spatial reasoning, fault diagnosis, and accuracy.

Candidates can actually improve their scores through preparation, and How to Pass Technical Selection Tests provides all the expert advice and practice material needed.

About this title

About the Author

Mike Bryon runs a training consultancy in London, and is a recognised expert in psychometrics and training solutions. He is the compiling editor of The Times Testing CD-ROMS and also the author of How to Pass Graduate Psychometric Tests, How to Pass Advanced Numeracy Tests, The Advanced Numeracy Test Workbook, How to Pass the Civil Service Qualifying Tests and How to Pass Secondary School Selection Tests, all published by Kogan Page.

Sanjay Modha has an MSc in Occupational and and Organisational Psychology. A researcher and lecturer, he is the author of the best-selling How to Pass Selection Tests (with Mike Bryon), also published by Kogan Page.

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1 A brief guide to tests

What are selection tests?

Do tests discriminate?

Reliability and validity

Why do companies use tests?

Test administration

Test scores

2 How to prepare for tests

Practice makes perfect

How best to practise

Organise your study

Doing your best on the day

Test strategies

You have to try hard to do well in a test

What to do if you fail

3 Some of the most common types of technical tests

Categories of tests

Attainment tests

Aptitude tests

Work sample tests

Trainability tests

Technical tests of verbal reasoning

Technical tests of numerical reasoning

Tests of diagrammatic reasoning

Tests of mechanical reasoning

4 Other types of test that you may encounter

5 The technical selection tests essential dictionary

6 Technical numerical questions

Section one

Section two

Practice test

Area, volume and surface areas

Trainability and selection tests in construction

Electrical power

7 Technical verbal questions

Basic vocabulary of science and engineering

Basic principles of physics

8 Tests of diagrammatic reasoning

The format of the questions

9 Mechanical questions

Section one

Section two

10 Answers and explanations

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0749443758
• ISBN 13: 9780749443757
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 192