Psychometric Tests

WHAT ARE
PSYCHOMETRIC
TESTS?

Aim to measure aspects of your mental ability,

aptitude or your personality
Used as part of the recruitment or selection process
Provides employers with a method of selecting the
most suitable job applicants or candidates for
promotion
Used by 80% of Fortune 500 and 75% of Times Top
100 companies

What do psychometric tests measure?

 How well you work with other people

How well you handle stress
Whether you will be able to cope with the intellectual
demands of the job
Your personality, preferences and abilities
Analyze your emotional or psychological stability
Best match of individual to occupation and working
environment

What are the different types of tests?

Personality Tests
You will be presented with statements describing various ways of feeling or acting and
asked to answer each one on a 2 point, 5 point or 7 point scale. The number of questions you
are expected to answer varies from about 50 to 200, depending on the duration of the test.
1. I prefer to avoid conflict.
A) True B) False
2. I enjoy parties and other social occasions.
A) strongly disagree B) disagree C) neutrals D) agree E) strongly agree
3. Work is the most important thing in my life.
A) very strongly disagree B) strongly disagrees C) disagree D) neutral E) agree F)strongly
agree G) very strongly agree

Types of aptitude and ability tests

Some of the popular

psychometric tests are:
16 PF
MBTI
OPQ32
Thomas Personal Profiling System
Gordons Personal Profile Inventory
Rorschach Ink-Blot Test
FIRO-B
Picture Frustration Test
Thematic Apperception Tests (TAT)

Basis of these tests:

Five personality traits:
Openness
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism

Five Factor Scoring:

-ve
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Conscientiousn
ess
Neuroticism
Openness to
experience

+ve

16 Personality Factor model

(16PF)
Developed in the 1940s and refined in the
60s
Attempts to define the basic underlying
personality
Questionnaire based
Analysis using 16 personality factors

Factor

Descriptors

Warmth

Reserved

Outgoing

Reasoning

Less
Intelligent

More Intelligent

Emotional
Stability

Affected by
feelings

Dominance

Liveliness

Rule
Consciousness

Social Boldness

Humble
Sober
Expedient
Shy

Emotionally
stable
Assertive
Happy-go-lucky
Conscientious
Venturesome

Sensitivity

Toughminded

Tender-minded

Vigilance

Trusting

Suspicious

Abstractedness

Practical

Imaginative

Privateness

Straightforwa
rd

Shrewd

Apprehension

Self-Assured

Apprehensive

Q1

Openness to
Change

Conservative

Experimenting

Q2

Self-Reliance

Groupdependent

Q3

Perfectionism

Self-conflict

Q4

Tension

Relaxed

Self-sufficient
Self-control
Tense

The 16 factors with their word

descriptors of each scale

Colour Test

Select one colour

Pink
Blue
Red
Yellow
Green
Black

Pink - People who choose pink have the gentle side of human nature, health,
abundance and youth.

Blue -People who prefer blue usually dislike confrontations and play the role of the
diplomat in order to avoid continued conflict. They are good orators, capable of giving a
good speech.

Red- A person who prefers red is one who enjoys life to the fullest. These individuals
usually live according to their own rules and often do not follow the traditional norms.
They avoid boring people and always try to experience the maximum fun and
excitement from any endeavor.

Green People who choose green are capable of creating a balance between positive
and negative emotions. They are capable of seeing both sides of an issue, have a
strong moral sense of right and wrong, and tend to be idealistic.

Black -People who like black hold things inside and do not want to be touched. they
are hard-working fixers who zero in on the essence of any problem. They tenaciously
love to find the mistakes and faults of others like detectives or puzzle fans.

Yellow -People who choose yellow are very business minded and like to be thought of
as educated. They use their minds to achieve their goals and as a result, love games
and are particularly good at chess.