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.