How to Pass Selection Tests: Essential Preparation for Numerical, Verbal, Clerical and IT Tests

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

How to Pass Selection Tests provides all the expert advice and practice material needed to improve a score in selection tests. Full of numerical, verbal and clerical practice tests, it also gives guidance on why employers use tests, the most common types of test, how to improve chances of success and what to do if you fail.

Complete with answers and full explanations, How to Pass Selection Tests will help the reader to familiarize themselves with different types of questions, boost their confidence and cope with nervousness.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction (p. 1)
• 1 Aims of the book (p. 3)
• 2 General information about tests (p. 4)
• History of tests (p. 4)
• What are selection tests? (p. 5)
• Reliability and validity (p. 6)
• Different types of test (p. 7)
• Fair and unfair discrimination (p. 10)
• Why companies use tests (p. 11)
• Test conditions (p. 12)
• How the results are interpreted (p. 13)
• 3 What to do if invited to sit a test (p. 15)
• Why practice helps (p. 15)
• Make a decision (p. 16)
• Establish a clear idea of the test demands (p. 17)
• Seek out relevant material (p. 17)
• Prepare a programme of work (p. 18)
• Coach yourself (p. 19)
• The night before the test (p. 19)
• Text anxiety (p. 19)
• Test strategies (p. 20)
• What to do if you fail (p. 20)
• 4 Some of the most common types of test (p. 22)
• Verbal tests (p. 23)
• Tests of logical thinking (p. 24)
• Numerical tests (p. 24)
• Test of clerical and computing skills (p. 24)
• Practice examples (p. 25)
• 5 Practice material (p. 45)
• Verbal tests (p. 45)
• Numerical tests (p. 115)
• Clerical tests (p. 140)
• 6 Answers and explanations (p. 177)