Brilliant Tactics to Pass Aptitude Tests, 2nd Edition

Some of us like the idea of gaining self-knowledge through a quiz in a magazine or solving a problem in a puzzle book. But however much we may think that the results affirm what we are really like, such quizzes and problems are not in any way objective measures in the true sense of a psychometric test. This chapter gives a quick outline of psychometric testing without going into complex detail.

Measuring mental processes

Philosophers, scientists and mystics have long been preoccupied with human nature – both its intellectual capacity and its ability to feel, to react, to relate and to behave in particular ways. But it wasn’t until the birth ...