How to Pass Graduate Psychometric Tests provides a huge bank of questions as well as advice and practice exercises to help you prepare for the rigorous tests used by employers, helping you to build up speed, accuracy and confidence.
Covering a range of numerical and verbal skills, it provides 500 practice questions, including 10 realistic full length practice tests; a glossary of essential terms in English usage; a glossary of key mathematical terms and methods; study tips and winning test strategies; answers, explanations and interpretations of your scores. With information on what to expect when attending an assessment centre and detailed advice on how to excel in each activity, How to Pass Graduate Psychometric Tests provides unrivalled support to help you to succeed and win that graduate job.
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Over 50,000 copies sold worldwide Intermediate to advanced level tests make this ideal for managers as well as graduates Contents are directly relevant to the selection tests used by many top employers
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The challenge of open and fair recruitment |
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The maximum benefit of practice in ability tests |
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How much and what kind of practice? |
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A summary of research findings |
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If you are invited to a graduate assessment centre |
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The group exercise or role play |
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If you suffer from a disability |
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If you face a graduate assessment many years after leaving college |
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2 Personality and attitudinal questionnaires |
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Personality questionnaires in which there is strictly speaking no right or wrong answer |
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Practice for personality questionnaires |
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Practice at 40 more personality questionnaire statements |
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Attitudinal questionnaires to which there is most definitely a wrong answer |
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Situational awareness tests |
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3 Great candidate except for the maths! |
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A key skills diagnostic exercise |
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Glossary of key terms and methods |
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Sixty practice number problems |
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Numerical test 1 Practice intermediate-level number problem test |
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Numerical test 2 Practice intermediate-level sequencing test |
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Numerical test 3 Intermediate data interpretation practice test |
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Numerical test 4 Practice intermediate-level data interpretation test |
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Numerical test 5 Advanced data interpretation practice test |
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4 English usage, reading comprehension and critical reasoning |
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If English is not your first language |
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If you suffer from a disability |
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One hundred and thirty-five practice questions |
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Test 1 Practice test of English usage |
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Test 2 Practice intermediate-level critical reasoning test |
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Test 3 Practice intermediate-level critical reasoning test |
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Test 4 Practice advanced-level reading comprehension and critical reasoning test |
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Test 5 Practice advanced-level reading comprehension and critical reasoning test |
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5 Answers and many explanations |
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Mike Bryon is an expert in psychometrics and training solutions. He is also the author of The Advanced Numeracy Test Workbook, How to Pass Graduate Psychometric Tests, How to Pass the Civil Service Qualifying Tests, How to Pass Selection Tests, Ultimate Psychometric Tests and How to Master the UKCAT, as well as many other titles, all published by Kogan Page.
