I wrote a test today. It was a 2 hours and 15 min psychological test. There were 65 multiple choice questions with more than one correct answer per question and the trick was to pick the "best correct" answer.
If I am successful and obtain at least 42 out of 65, then I will be considered further for a competitive process for a Supervisor's position. This test is a screening tool used to widdle the hundreds of applications down to a more manageable number.
I felt pretty good about how I did on the test. That worries me. In the past, whenever I've felt really good about a test; I usually end up failing. Whenever I've felt really badly; I've ended up passing.
You can see the dilema. They've used a psychological test and clearly my cognitive abilities are in question and I will certainly be found out when the test is marked. What will I do then?
I really don't know why I continually torture myself by competing in these processes. I must be a bugger for punishment.
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I always cross my fingers!
BTW I was not taking the Mick in my 'spooky' post, it really happened...contact after thirty years, the day after my Mum talked about her.
Don't over analyse - you took the test, you felt good about it. Leave it at that and have a beer!
I have had to do several of these, once a whole half day with written, verbal and visual tests. I got offered the job but the whole process gave me such the arse that it contributed to me declining the position. Since then, I have tried to be more relaxed and it seems to work.
All the best with it.
Huwge
BTW - there is so much literature available about test interpretation, you wonder why they still bother. What's to stop someone reading a book and gaming the system - you figure out the profile they want and answer accordingly. Either that, or I am a devious cynic.
huwge
Welcome Leggy Omen! Thanks for dropping by and I'm sure you are right, well I hope you are!
Mick - I did believe you about what happened to your mum, and it is something that I'm interested in, I was just thinking that you were kind of teasing me for believing in such things, so I take that back...sorry. :o)
Don't over analyse - Thanks Huwge, you have just won a truck full of cat food for being the umpteenth person in the past couple of weeks to tell me not to over analyze. I must be over analyzing everything, eh? Hehehehee, you are right. I'm going to treat myself to a beer tonight and forget about it. What's done is done and my worrying about it now is absolutely useless! Gee, I wish I'd known ahead of time that I could have studied some books and just answered the way they wanted.
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