These are tests conducted to assess the candidates personality. Personality is the particular combination of emotional, attitudinal, and behavioral response patterns of an individual. Colleges like Welingkar take a psyhometric test for their PG courses.
The principle behind personality questionnaires is that it is possible to quantify your personality by asking you about your feelings, thoughts and behavior. You will be presented with statements describing various ways of feeling or acting and asked to answer each one on a scale. For example;
1. I enjoy taking risks?
A) True    B) False
2. I like to be the center of attention?
A) strongly disagree               B) disagree   C) neutral     D) agree   E) strongly agree
The number of questions you are expected to answer varies from about 50 to 500 depending on the particular questionnaire used by the employer.
Personality has a significant role to play in providing answers to questions the employer may have regarding your enthusiasm and motivation as well as providing an insight into whether you are going to fit in, in terms of your personality, attitude and general work style.
WHILE DOING A PSYCHOMETRIC TEST
- Be honest. Don’t bluff. There will be questions to counter check the traits the test assesses.
- Ensure you complete the test.
- Practise a few online tests.
Sample test
http://similarminds.com/cgi-bin/career5.pl
CREATIVITY TEST
Creativity tests are typically divided into four main components: Divergent thinking, Convergent thinking, Artistic assessments and Self assessments.
Divergent thinking is the ability to consciously generate new ideas that branch out to many possible solutions for a given problem. These solutions or responses are then scored on four components:
1)Originality – statistical infrequency of response
2)Fluency – number of responses
3)Flexibility – the degree of difference of the responses, in other words do they come from a single domain or multiple domains
4)Elaboration – the amount of detail of the response
Convergent thinking is the ability to correctly hone in the single correct solution to a problem. In creativity convergent thinking often requires taking a novel approach to the problem, seeing the problem from a different perspective or making a unique association between parts of the problem. These solutions are scored either correct or incorrect.
Artistic assessments are the evaluations of an artistic product (e.g., painting, story, poem, musical composition, collage, drawing etc.). Evaluations are typically done by two or more judges that must be in near agreement on the creativity of the product.
Self assessments are person’s responses to the amount of creativity a person feels they exhibit.
For the creativity test, you may be given a picture and asked to describe it. You may also be shown an object and asked about its uses. There are also tools ot questionnaires to assess creativity. Welingkar is one of the colleges which conduct a creativity test.
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