Kinds of Psychometric Testing

Psychometric testing is a means of testing cognitive abilities, aptitudes, as well as personality and behaviour traits of an individual. The results are objective and scientific, and based on answers provided by the individual, without any outside influences.

Aptitude or ability tests are focused on ascertaining you level of level of competence on an intellectual basis. Your analytical and logical reasoning abilities are measured. These tests are usually designed and aimed at specific areas which are closely related to the career field you wish to pursue, or the course for which you are applying.

Verbal reasoning is usually tested making use of your reading and analytical skills. A passage is provided for you to read, after which you will need to provide the best answer for each question, from the options provided. These questions are multiple choice in nature. This may lead you to think that they are easy, however, you will be surprised at how correct each answer sounds. Your reasoning and analytical skills are required in order to select the appropriate answer.

Numerical reasoning is put in place to test your ability to understand provided problems, analyze them, and provide the best possible answer from the list provided. The problems may be presented as charts, graphs, or numerical problems which need to be calculated.

These kinds of aptitude tests are usually carried out using paper and pencil, where calculations must be carried out. There are instances where the tests my be computerized. They are always presented under time constraints. Results are standardized in this way. Results are measured against the results of others who have taken the tests under the same conditions. Your results are compatibly measured in order to ascertain your level of ability.

The personality or behavior section of the psychometric test are in place to measure a number of things. The results will enable the evaluator to explore the way in which you do things, your attitude, and your behavior patterns in certain situations. Your ability to cope with stress is tested under certain circumstances. Your values and work ethics are measured, as well as how motivated you are to meet your targets and goals.

These paper and pencil based tests are such that there are no right and wrong answers to the questions.

Questions are usually based on a particular work or career type, and related to the environment in which you may have to work or study . It needs to be ascertained whether you will fit into the existing student group of students or employees, and how well you will cope on a psychological level, with obstacles or tasks the resulting job may require you to work with.

If you are unsure of what career path you should follow, these tests will help you to be guided in the right direction. By realizing your dreams, values, ethics, and interests, your results can be evaluated and you will be offered an insight into which areas you could pursue and the reasoning behind it. If you have your mind set elsewhere, the results can help you to understand which areas you need to work on improving, in order to be successful in the field of your choice.

When it comes to personality tests, it is best to always be completely honest in your answers. Trying to answer what you think they want to hear, will only render results that reveal your little white lies. Obtaining a job through results that are obtained through dishonest answers, may land you on a career path that leaves you far from happy and successful.

The ability and aptitude section of the test is a little easier to navigate and prepare for. There are things you can do to improve your results before actually undertaking the official test. By simply doing tests online as a means of practice, you become accustomed to the type of questions asked, and how to answer them. You, yourself can improve your results through practice, and other small tasks undertaken such as reading, or doing crosswords and number puzzles.

As daunting as psychometric testing can be, it is something you can master by preparing. Eat correctly, get your rest, exercise, master anxiety and stress management techniques, and most of all, be honest.

What you need to understand is that being an all round, candidate is far better than being perhaps intellectually right for the position, but your social and personality skills are lacking. Many positions, or careers, need you to have both qualities, equally. Find the perfect fit for you. The last thing anybody wants is to be stuck in a career that you have no passion for, gives you no happiness, and in which you have no hope of progressing or advancing.

Psychrometric testing often reveals things to those taking the test, that they were not even aware of. Perhaps you have a talent or skill that you have buried deep within, while in pursuit of something you thought was the perfect path for you. If you undergo such psychometric testing, it is best to do so with an open-mind, and be prepared to embrace whatever the results may reveal. Don’t fight what is determine, use it to your advantage, and grow from it. The evaluators are not there to instruct you on what path you should follow, they are there to offer you guidance according to the results presented. They will make suggestions, and give valid reasoning, according to your results, as to why they are making those suggestions.

Take full advantage if the opportunity presents itself. Psychometric testing has the ability to make or break your career, if you use the information provided, wisely. Nobody can tell you that you can’t do something, if you have passion for it. The tests can definitely help you to grow in areas where you show weakness, and assist you in achieving that for which you feel true passion.

You are the master of your own destiny, but nobody said accepting help along the way wasn’t an option. 

Advantages and Disadvantages of Psychometric Testing

1.  Psychometric tests are specialized tests, aimed to achieve successful recruitment of personnel by conducting series of personality and ability tests designed as per the organizational needs. These tests are company specific, task/ job oriented, dynamic and flexible, and are conducted in controlled environment by a certified clinical psychologist. Psychometric tests are considered to be of paramount importance in selection process to meet the desired needs and standards of HR department. There are many recruiting firms which are providing a wide range of psychometric testing services specially designed to match client’s job description and job specification.

2.  If a company wants to conduct a psychometric test for a manager role it would be design to test cognitive abilities, personality trait assessment and assessment of desired skills required by the firm to be present in the applicant to fulfill that job description. Since these tests are focused to test the knowledge area that is not imparted in educational institutions. To succeed in psychometric test is a challenging task as it takes a lot of preparation and practice to train your brain accordingly. Psychometric tests generally comprise of two types i.e. cognitive ability tests and personality trait tests.

3.  Psychometric tests are not only used for job selection or recruitment purposes but it also has a pivotal role in assisting young students in a challenging task of career path selection. These tests are also useful in assisting current employees, who are looking for a job switch at a higher management level. Moreover, it also helps those applicants who are entering into the job market for the first time. Following are the astonishing features that these tests provide to variety of users i.e. students, fresh candidates and already employed personnel.

• Career Path Selection.  Career path selection is very critical decision and it is difficult for a student or teacher to have complete knowledge about the skills, interests and abilities required to make right decision. It is therefore necessary for a student to undergo a controlled psychometric test to make correct decision about professional studies that matches his / her aptitude that keeps him / her motivated to excel in his / her field of interest.

• Job Seekers.   Finding a right job at right organization where an applicant can utilize his/ her skills in an effective and efficient manner is a difficult task, therefore, it is mandatory for a job seeker to go through a series of psychoertic tests that enables him/ her to have his/ her own assessment about what really is desired skill set and job requirements which are to be performed by that applicant. When a fresh job seeker goes through a process of psychometric testing, it helps him find a job he would love to do. It allows him to avoid job that makes his life miserable.

• Uses of Psychometric Testing for Career Counselors. These tests makes it easier for career counselors to find out candidates abilities, skills and personality traits and relate these personality features with demands of a job, to find out which job best fits his/ her true potential and personality. Psychometric testing helps candidates to gain insight into their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and strengths in job environment to make informed decisions on their future career and path selection process.

• Psychometric test results provide insight into an employee’s role in the organization.

• Psychometric tests have the capability to predict how a candidate is likely to perform and whether the individual will fit into the organizations culture.

• On part of the candidates appearing in psychometric tests, it provides an equal opportunity to all candidates to be tested in a standardized environment.

4. Psychometric testing is an important assessment tool for HR department engaged in finding right person for the organization.

• These tests are very constructive for HR personnel of any organization as it provides assistance not only in hiring right people for right job but also aids in ascertaining, whether the person assigned with a particular position matches his/ her skills, abilities and temperament.

• HR personnel can use psychometric tests to explore causes of under-performing employees and can suggest suitable remedy either by replacement or job rotation to bring efficiency and effectiveness in a particular department.

• Psychometric testing also provides objective assessments about which/ when an employee needs training, development or motivation to perform better.

• Psychometric tests also provide insight into the personality traits an employee carries and results of these tests are useful in ascertaining whether which employee is best suited for which type of job. Moreover, these useful assessments also bring forth the inefficiencies of employees and how to reduce/ overcome those inefficiencies.

• Psychometric tests helps in assessing organization’s training and development needs, explore job specific inefficiencies, job rotation and enrichment needs and development of HR policies.

• Psychometric testing is not only cost beneficial but it also provides a long term benefit in the form of providing best suited person to the organization.

• Psychometric testing provides objective preview of a prospective employee, whereas, other type of tests are more off subjective in nature. This all-round assessment process measuring attributes including knowledge, critical reasoning, enthusiasm and personality profile provides objective data about suitability of a candidate.

• In today’s competitive environment where HR specific organizations are highly dependent on high performing employees, psychometric tests extraordinary benefit in making correct HR decisions.

5.   There are many pros and cons of psychometric tests but in the nutshell it is the most reliable and valid testing method, which can be implemented in many different scenarios. To conclude above discussion we may reach a consensus that there are many types of psychometric tests that can be applied to many different situations and when it comes to dealing with HR, it is not wise to stick to any one type of method but an array of tools both psychometric and traditional approaches customized, to fulfil a given situation is a perfect remedy.

Importance of Psychometric Testing

Psychometric test is most important and influential field of testing that helps students in a very supportive way to make decisions or choices for the most difficult area of their life i.e. career path selection. It also helps those individuals who are currently doing job but they seemed unhappy for their job or they lack motivation that is essential to excel in their field. Thus this testing helps them to easily switch over without any hustle or hesitation. Moreover this testing also helps those employees who have completed their education and are entering into the field of market and are searching for employment. Given below are the most important characteristics of testing that help, students, professional as well as laymen to move confidently and successfully in their profession.

• Psychometric testing helps all the students who are thinking to choosing some right profession for themselves. These tests help them to assess their attitude, skills, abilities, talent, capabilities, resilience and other social and development skills that will help them to choose field according to own will and choice so that they keep themselves motivated and keep their morale high.

• Similarly when some laymen go in professional life or choose some field for themselves this testing helps them to choose those profession in whom they love to spend their time and also helps them to avoid those job that are source of tension and frustration. Therefore this testing helps them to do a healthy and wise decision.

• Psychometric testing not only help students but it also helps counselors and psychologists to find out which personality is more demanding for a particular job and to find out potential candidate that is required for the job.

• Moreover this testing also helps counselors to find out what are the abilities or characteristics of an individual that are required for this job. Thus it helps in both ways. Firstly it helps to find out what characteristics or abilities of an individual are important to do this job and secondly it helps to find out the individual who has those abilities and characteristics

• Testing also helps individuals to find out what are the positive or negative aspects of their personality. They help them to find out their strengths, weaknesses, de-motivating factors of their personality, things that satisfy their professional needs, their level of understanding to the given tasks etc. thus it helps them to go easier in their filed with composed and poised personality and to work with full dedication and enthusiasm.

• Another important fact about this testing is that it helps to predict if the employee serving in any organization is fit for the job or not. If he is having some social or behavioral issues then how one can deal with them or how he can handle these issues in most effective and useful manner. Thus testing helps to identify problems as well as finding solutions for them too.

• Another most important use of this type of testing is that it helps organization to do job rotation of employee’s i.e. to move employee from one position to another to rule out his abilities and capabilities.

Therefore these tests are more usable due to its reliability and validity which enhances the efficiency of an organization as well as and leads to better HR practices. The main important thing is that this testing gives a complete information about an individual thus no fake work or guess work can be done in HR processes. These processes involves hiring of an individual, recruitment and selection of an employee, team building processes, training and development, career counseling and progression of an individual in particular field. In large organizations these testing procedures gives a very smooth functioning as these are easy to rely upon and are with proper procedure to administer and implement for the required purpose. These tests can provide better environment and unity among employee because once these tests are used to find out weak areas more work can be easily done to bridge the gaps and to create harmony among organizational members. This is one of the biggest reason that creates strong relationship and sense of bonding among employee and they compete with each other in positive direction with positive attitude.

Moreover as per needs of the organization these tests are customized for example if an organization have flexible environment these tests are utilized as per organizational demand. If an organization wants to conduction this test on systems then these tests can be administer online. However if there are organizations who do not have enough resources to conduct these tests online then may administer them through pen-paper method. Thus it gives wide number of choices to organizations. These tests also contains facility for individuals to provide feedback related to testing services, their procedures, facilities and roles. Thus it can be applied to all types of organizational environment.Testing is low in cost and gives long term advantage to the organization by enhancing and activating the organizational benefits and profit. It helps in reducing the expenditure of organization by catering large number of population. Testing delivers unbiased screening of a potential member. This outstanding valuation progress of gauging characteristics comprising knowledge, critical reasoning, and enthusiasm and personality profile provides objective data about suitability of a candidate.

In today’s competitive environment where organizations are highly dependent on high performing employees, these tests have unusual assistance of bringing competence in making correct HR decisions.It is pertinent to note that these tests are organized by certified psychologists who manage the complete testing process and provide expert advice to the management during selection process as to whether the candidate is suitable for that specific job.Therefore, in light of above discussion we can conclude that psychometric test provides customized solutions in a dynamic situation not only in selection and recruitment process but also in career progression, training and development and growth process, building workplace relationship in organizational setting.

Impact of Psychometric Assessment on HR Practices

1.  Role of Psychometric Testing. Human Resource department plays a pivotal role in overall performance of any organization and to remain competitive it is necessary to have competent human resource employed at every department. In wake of such challenging environment, where, HR personnel are continuously trying to identify skills and potential of people to develop a talent pool. Psychometric testing has proved to play an important role in assisting HR personnel in this endeavor.Psychometric testing is an effective tool in assessing human behaviors, which as a result helps in ascertaining the chances of a person to succeed in a particular role.

2.  Effectiveness of Psychometric Testing. A psychometric test provides HR personnel with cost effective, scientific and objective method to assess people’s attitudes, beliefs, values, competencies and personalities. It follows a statistical approach to provide objective assessments. These assessments are derived from different inputs taken from the candidate in the form of questionnaires, verbal, non-verbal tests, scales and IQ/ EQ tests.

3.     Reliability and Validity of Psychometric Testing. According to past studies and experience of many organizations in human resource management it has been proven that psychometric tests are more reliable and valid as compared with other techniques. Moreover, studies indicate that psychometric tests are about four times more effective than interviews. The reason why this method of individual assessment has become popular and widespread is because it uncovers valuable information which was earlier not possible and mostly HR personnel used to rely on gut feeling, which sometimes proved to be fatal.

4.      Selecting Best-fit Candidate for a Particular Role.   Psychometric tests are designed to measure the suitability of a candidate specific to a role in presence of given requirements. The task of HR personnel is to determine actual cognitive abilities and personality profile of a prospect with those essentially required by the organization to carry out the task. This challenging taskof identifying important attributes like team work abilities, leadership qualities, interpersonal skills, analytical and decision making skills are very important to increase effectiveness of an organization is best attained by psychometric testing. As per the statistics it has been reported that about 80% of US Fortune 500 organizations and 75% of UK’s top 100 organizations make use of psychometric testing.

5. Opponents and Proponents of Psychometric Testing. There have been a debate on the effectiveness of psychometric testing and opponents argue that gut feeling of an interviewer and other conventional methods of testing cannot be set aside, and question the reliability and validity of psychometric testing methods and tools. But on the other hand the proponents of psychometric testing argue that it’s an unbiased, objective and fair method of testing, where all candidates get equal opportunity, with similar method of testing, like standardized questionnaires conducted in a controlled environment. These psychological assessments are not subjective and are not affected by tester’s personal beliefs.

6.    Conclusion.    To conclude above discussion we may reach a consensus that there are no quick fixes, when it comes to dealing with human resource, it is not wise to stick to any one type of method but an array of tools both psychometric and traditional approaches customized, to fulfill a given situation is a perfect remedy.

Individual Psychometric Testing

There are large numbers of psychometric testing batteries that are used for individual personality testing to assess individual’s personality and to compare it with the competencies required for the job. It is important for development and selection of candidate’s personality. This personality profiling is a life time process that is updated from time to time and thus record is maintained regarding individual’s personality that helps organization during time of training or promotion. This psychometric testing profile helps in almost all areas whether person is in some educational institute or an employee of some organization. The battery includes

Interpersonal style: It is very important to assess interpersonal styles in psychometric testing wherever a person is working or performing any tasks. This involves identifying communication pattern of an individual i.e. how he communicates with his mates, how he interacts with him, how he controls his emotions during hard times, how he deals with anxiety or nervousness, how responsive he is towards criticism, how open he is towards negative thinking etc. 

Thinking and problem solving style: This psychometric testing battery helps in assessing individual’s thinking pattern i.e. his ability to pick things quickly, to think strategically about the problem and to draw conclusions immediately. This portion of psychometric testing also involves individual’s problem solving skills i.e. how he looks at problem, how he faces the challenge and what are the arrangements for problem solving.

Coping and adaptability: It helps in identifying individual’s thinking pattern, his emotional stability his coping style patterns, how much resilient a person is, how he deals with problems, how he adapt to new situations etc.

Team roles style: This individual profiling of psychometric testing measures how a person behaves, contribute and inter-relate with people in group form.

Subordinate roles: This type of psychometric testing helps to identify how person behaves, how he act and react and how he performs when he is working as a subordinator. 

Influencing style: This psychometric testing battery helps to identify individual’s style when he is working in power, authority or manipulative position. For examples it identifies whether a person is challenger, collaborator, guider or listener etc.

Leadership style: This psychometric testing portion helps to identify how individual provides direction or implement plans or motivate roles. It helps to identify specific leadership style of an individual i.e. whether he is charismatic or transformational or authoritative leader.

Career themes: This psychometric testing identifies individual way of thinking or acting when he is choosing a career or developing a career or changing a career or building a career.

Personal areas of strength: This is most interesting part of psychometric testing in personality profiling. It involves identifying individual’s personality most strongest or potential area of personality. Examples are person’s personality is one of any type of given choices i.e. ambitious, adventurous, action-oriented, analytical, artistic, athletic, empathetic, energetic etc. there are large number of personality strengths that presents wide variety of individual’s characteristics.

Overview Of Psychometric Testing Patterns

This article is specially written to list down the different sections of a psychometric test and their important tips which will help you in learning more efficiently than what you are doing till now.

Verbal reasoning as a psychometric test area-

This part has many ways to assess your verbal skills, related to the use of language and your understanding about their associations with specific rules to follow. As many of you might have knowledge that grammar is very complex and contains a set of rules to remember. Here are the different patterns of questions you would find in a psychometric test.

1. Two lists of three words each will be given to you to find two words from each list, the words must have very strong bond of meanings. Example is given below-

Pond	Fish
Frog	Flower
Tree	Mud

The exercise is called word link. Almost 5 to 10 similar questions are presented in a test from each section. Another exercise is word link with synonyms. The set of examples are here-

“Genre is to class as:

obsolete is to

A. modern

B. outmoded

C. watchful

Deceit is to fraud as:

decision is to

A. conclusion

B. solve

C. indecision”

The objective is to pull out the same meaning of answers. The word link exercise can be printed for you in a test to pull out opposite meanings word or referred to as word link antonyms. See the examples-

“Respect

A. Admire

B. Despise Answer

C. Exalt

Disgrace is to honour

as alarmist is to

A. optimist Answer

B. scaremonger

C. outright”

Next exercise is finding new word; you will see a list of three words written separately in a row. The work is to make a new word using last letter of a word and starting letters of the word next to it in a row list. This really needs mental approach to answer.

“result motivation lyric”

Answer

Then word swapping is another technique of the verbal psychometric testing pattern. You will be given sentences in which word switching is required, the exchange of words is asked in the sentence to allow yourself to modify it and make it sensible. The sentence will look like-

“Breaking up to hard is do.”

So, is needs to be shuffle with hard in the given sentence to make it sensible. The use of common sense is not difficult for native English learners and candidates.

You can see the parts are a mix of easy and hard sections. Sometimes, a lengthy statement will also printed to test you like this one:

“Book publishing is big business, the industry is worth £4 billion and more than 12,000 books are published in the UK a year and each third of which are exported.”

In the same way, sentence sequencing can be asked, where you need to reorganize styles of paragraph to read it in flow with all accurate series, example include-

“A. Pluto is the ninth and the most distant from the sun.

B. It is tiny compared with the giants Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus which have massive, dense, gaseous atmospheres.

C. Our solar system has nine planets formed from gas and dust left over after the sun was formed.”

Complete sentence with best words, this section contains sentences as a question with more than one words or pair of words to decide from. Only one word can be adjusted into the sentence for better reading and comprehension. You need to place an answer below the question in a box.

“A rescue plan for Village Leisure, the failing/falling media company, was

agreed by shareholders at an extraordinary meeting/moratorium”

Recall fill in the blanks, this time with more brainy side, the use of English will be measured by this exercise where you need to choose the word which provides clarity in sentence, there may be more than one to fix in a sentence and list might contain more than one correct answers, look for the words which provides clarity.

“Which of the following words can be a preposition?

A. location

B. no Answer

C. in

D. position

Children please don’t make so much noise. __A__.

1. I am concentrating.

2. I concentrate. Answer

3. While I concentrate”

Choosing the correct language answer is the task here, you need to think extra smartly to win this one.

“Which sentence if any contains an error?

A. Before the meeting he greeted both the Company Secretary and

the Finance Director.

B. Before the meeting he greeted the Company Secretary and Finance

Director.

C. Neither is correct.”

With the mix of above given sections, passages are given to read and then five questions need to be answered, they are same as comprehensions given in grammar books but definitely demands your maximum focus and briefing skills. This activity takes time to become a master.

You took a look upon a part of the tests, hopefully other parts including numerical and logical reasoning will be given to help your preparation in the coming days.

Use of Psychometric Test in Career Counseling

1. Psychometric tests are useful in helping students identify their future career path selection, switching career and making higher education choices. Psychometric test not only serves the purpose of measuring the aptitude of a student but also guarantees selection of correct and successful career. Psychometric tests can help students to know their true potential by identifying strengths, weaknesses, abilities, skills and interests.

2.     Normally students don’t know as to which type of career they should pursue, what they want to do in future, which career would suit them, more importantly they are ignorant of the fact that they don’t even know about their hidden abilities and don’t know whom to approach for advice and counseling.

3.    Psychometric test provides the all in one solution to career path selection and guidance. It is the panacea for all ills and a perfect remedy. But on the other hand it is pertinent to note that psychometric tests come with a variety of tools, which should be used in consultation with a certified counselors and professionals. Since psychometric tests are not self sufficient and require other assessment techniques as prescribed by professional psychologists.

4.    Psychometric testing tools enables the counseling experts in aptitude mapping, which gives a clear picture to counselor about student’s inherent abilities, personality type and interests and whether it corresponds to career a student wants to pursue. For example personality tests are conducted to observe presence or absence of certain personality traits. If such desired personality trait is inherently present then counselor would suggest success in that career but if that personality trait is absent then it would lead to underperformance and counselor would simply not recommend that career.

5.   In past the concept of career counseling along with use of psychometric instruments was not the real focus, instead getting a job was a real focus, which led to job dissatisfaction and underperformance. Therefore, in order to avert this situation concept of hiring career counselors with use of correct psychometric tools got attention of many, as it helped in exploring ones talent and thereby guiding towards right path.

6.  Psychometric test helps in talent mapping; these are much more reliable because they are standardized on large population scales. Validity of a psychometric test should not be lower than 0.60, and if it’s lower than this level then a career counselor needs to re-evaluate it. Since these tests are standardized and tested on large population scales, therefore, are reliable. A mix of psychometric tests and sub tests like mechanical aptitude test, language aptitude and mathematical aptitude tests can make it convenient for a psychologist to explore aptitude of a student. These tests conducted consistently not only explore the aptitude of the student but also taps ability, personality and interest of a student. These traits are then matched with available jobs.

7.     Therefore, in light of above discussion we can conclude that psychometric tests can help teachers, students and parents in exploring the real talent of a student and to suggest best fit path for future. 

Psychometric Testing In Career Counseling/Guidance

Every individual has the choice to select his own career according to his abilities and skills. However most of the individual find it difficult to take decision. Therefore a lot of career counselors and guidance providers helps an individual to come out of the difficult moment by involving individual in psychometric testing in order to get information regarding his strengths and capabilities.

Psychometric testing is one of the most important source of getting more and more information. Now a days it is more common and advantageous as online psychometric testing is available that is free of cost or with very minimum cost. It helps students to understand what career is suitable for them and what the requirements are for reaching towards a specific goal.

Following are the key objectives of psychometric testing for the domain of career counseling.

1-      Psychometric testing helps counsellor’s parents and teachers to identify hidden abilities present in an individual.

2-      It helps them to identifytheir strengths i.e. things they are good at and their weaknesses i.e. things in which improvement is needed.

3-      One of the major reason of using psychometric testing is to help individuals to identify their interests. In this way it will be more helpful and supporting as individual choses his or her career with his own will and thus work hard with full dedication to achieve his goal.

4-      Psychometric testing not only helps individual in choosing his career but also helps him in knowing his own personality. He gets an insight regarding his worth and his value. He will be able to know his personality dynamics and hidden talents.

5-      Psychometric testing helps an individual to gain insight regarding aspects of work i.e. what are the requirements, what are the needs, what are the necessities of obtaining such type of career.

However although psychometric testing gives an individual an idea regarding his career however most of the people thinks of psychometric testing as an tool for making finalized decision for themselves. Therefore following are the things that psychometric testing cannot do:

1-     Psychometric testing cannot take decision for you. Although psychometric tests are helpful in deciding about the right career however they are not final source for making decision. In other words at the base of psychometric tests only an individual cannot make decisions.

2-      Psychometric testing do not helps an individual in finalizing the list of careers that can be finally adapted or that cannot be finally adapted. We cannot rule out on just basis of career.

3-      Although psychometric testing can give you a little support in getting information about yourself, your abilities, strengths, weaknesses etc. however it cannot help you to leave all the possible thinking ideas and to just rely on these tests and make decisions. An individual should have to think hard in doing right decision for the right career.

4-  Psychometric testing should be supported or done under the guidance of some professionals in order to achieve proper and verified information regarding career options and adaptation.