Websites relating to psychometric assessments

These websites have useful information about psychometric testing. Some sites have a facility for you to practice your skills; some of these sites may charge a fee.

NB: The University of Leicester is not responsible for the content of external Internet sites. References and links to any such sites should not be taken as an endorsement by the University of opinions expressed or services provided at those sites.

Assessment Day - there are free examples for numeric and verbal reasoning tests (www.assessmentday.co.uk).

Assessment Systems ltd - assessment and development of people at work, ASL aim to supply the widest range of assessment materials of any UK test distributor (www.aslgroup.co.uk)

BBC - www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/careers.This short questionnaire helps you think about the types of work and what you want from a job.

Berger Aptitude for Programming Test B-APT - a work sample test that measures aptitude for learning programming. The test includes a tutorial which teaches you a simple programming language that you will then use to write short programs in the test (www.psy-test.com/Baptd.html)

Bloomberg Institute: Introducing the BAT - Bloomberg Assessment Test - is a three-hour online test. The BAT was designed with leading financial institutions and academic to uncover knowledge and skills relevant for a financial career.

Educational Testing Service (ETS) , is the world's largest private educational testing and measurement organization and a leader in educational research (www.ets.org/prep.html). There are practice questions relating to:

• GMAT - Graduate Management Admission Test
• GRE - Graduate Record Examination
• Praxis - Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers
• TOEFL - Test of English as a Foreign Language.

GAMSAT (Graduate Australian Medical School Admissions Test) - GAMSAT style practice test (www.gamsat.co.uk).

GMAT - Graduate Management Admission Test (www.ets.org/prep.html)

GRE - Graduate Record Examination (www.ets.org/prep.html)

IQ Test - home of the original online IQ test. (www.iqtest.com)

Keirsey Temperament Sorter II test - is a powerful 70-question personality instrument that helps individuals discover their personality type. (www.advisorteam.com/temperament_sorter/register.asp?partid=1)

University of Kent (www.kent.ac.uk/careers/psychotests.htm) - useful resource with practice questions and answers.

KSL Training is an approved partner of SHL in the UK. These pages provide candidate help and tips for the SHL questionnaire and different types of SHL psychometric tests. It is designed to help you prepare both physically and mentally before any SHL assessment. (www.ksl-training.co.uk/shl_candidate_help.htm)

Majon.com - trial aptitude test (www.majon.com/cgi-bin/IQ?Q=newtest)

Dr. Mark Parkinson - is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and author of 'How to Master Psychometric Tests' and other guides. His website contains links to many different types of tests, including free examples (www.markparkinson.co.uk/psychometric_links.htm).

Mensa - fun test (www.mensa.org/workout2.php)

Mind Tools - mission is "to help people around the world learn the practical skills needed to excel in their careers". There are psychometric assessments and other career skills available under the 'Free Help' section (www.mindtools.com).

Morrisby - has sample tests relating to abstract reasoning (www.morrisby.com).

Newcastle University Maths-Aid resources on numerical reasoning tests (employer and financial numeracy tests downloads): http://www.ncl.ac.uk/students/mathsaid/resources/numeracy/numerical.htm

Online Test Centre (The) - has a range of tests on numercial, verbal, diagrammatic, logic, reasoning and puzzles and general knowledge. (http://www.theonlinetestcentre.com/index.htm)

Passing Psychometric Tests - has some useful articles in the archive section (passingpsychometrictests.blogspot.com).

Persona Partnership - exercise bank contains over fifty well proven assessment exercises - to browse through the extensive range of exercises, click onto the 'Individual', 'One-to-One' or 'Group' tabs (www.assessmentexercises.com). These may help to see the sort of scenarios/exercises given.

Praxis - Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers (www.ets.org/prep.html)

Prospects - has more information on psychometric tests and also has a 'test yourself' section offering a range of online tests and self-assessment exercises, which include:

Psychological Testing Centre - has a useful 'Frequently Asked Questions' section on psychological tests, how and why they are used and also links to websites with practice tests available (www.psychtesting.org.uk).

Psychometric Success - this is aimed at providing students with the detailed information and practice material they need to pass job selection tests (www.psychometric-success.com).

Psychometrix (www.psychometrixltd.com) - has various free tests including verbal, mathematical, mechanical and abstract reasoning.

Psychpress - Australian based Psychometric test provider which offers free samples of personality + aptitude tests (www.psychpress.com.au/html/PsychometricTestGuide.asp)

Realise Your Potential - a consultancy offering psychology-based solutions to organisations.  The FAQs for test takers can be seen from the following link(www.realisepotential.com/FAQTestTakers.html)

Saville and Holdsworth (SHL) - has example questions from aptitude tests to try out. It offers a variety of different tests on-line. They regularly require volunteers to complete new verbal and numerical ability tests online, this provides you with confidential feedback on your test scores and advice on improving performance (www.shldirect.com).

TARGET Jobs - has a section on psychometric assessments, which includes links to various practice assessments (http://targetjobs.co.uk/job-hunting-tools/psychometric-tests.aspx). 

Teaching Development Agency (TDA) - provides information relating to QTS skills for trainee teachers taking up teaching posts (www.tda.gov.uk).

Team Focus - a useful guide to psychometric assessment with a frequently asked questions section (www.teamfocus.co.uk/introduction_to_psychometric_testing.htm)

TOEFL - Test of English as a Foreign Language (www.ets.org/prep.html)

Top Employers numeracy game (www.topemployers.co.uk/graduate-jobs-numeracy-game.html)

University of London Online Careers Library - has useful links to other sites with example aptitude test questions (www.careers.lon.ac.uk/output/page212.asp?node=140 ).

WikiJob (www.wikijob.co.uk/wiki/aptitude-tests) comprehensive aptitude test information HUB with links and profiles explaining how to pass tests such as SHL tests, Watson Glazer tests and Situational Judgement Tests.

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