Measures of Verbal and Numerical Ability
The Australian Council of Educational Reserach (ACER) Select Series are quick and easily administered tests of verbal or numerical reasoning. They are suitable for recruiting in a variety of occupations, from sales and clerical, to junior management and graduate selection. They assess general intellectual ability as demonstrated by the ability to see relationships and solve problems in verbal and numerical material.
The General Select is intended for candidates who are applying for technical, clerical, and administrative positions.
How can you use the ACER Select Series in your organization?
Employee Selection
The ACER Select ability tests are primarily intended to assist in the selection of job candidates into occupations that involve a moderate to high level of demand on reasoning ability, and for other purposes where the ability to think clearly with words and numbers is involved.
Assess verbal and numerical reasoning as part of your pre-employment process.
These test questions are timed and require the use of words and numbers. The level of knowledge required (except in the case of the vocabulary items) is within the general knowledge of most people who have completed grade 10.
General Select:
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The Australian Council of Educational Reserach (ACER) Select Series are quick and easily administered tests of verbal or numerical reasoning. They are suitable for recruiting in a variety of occupations, from sales and clerical, to junior management and graduate selection. They assess general intellectual ability as demonstrated by the ability to see relationships and solve problems in verbal and numerical material.
The General Select is intended for candidates who are applying for technical, clerical, and administrative positions.
How can you use the ACER Select Series in your organization?
Employee Selection
The ACER Select ability tests are primarily intended to assist in the selection of job candidates into occupations that involve a moderate to high level of demand on reasoning ability, and for other purposes where the ability to think clearly with words and numbers is involved.
Assess verbal and numerical reasoning as part of your pre-employment process.
These test questions are timed and require the use of words and numbers. The level of knowledge required (except in the case of the vocabulary items) is within the general knowledge of most people who have completed grade 10.
General Select:
- Verbal – 15 minutes
- Numerical – 20 minutes
DOWNLOAD SAMPLE REPORT HERE.
ACER MECHANICAL REASONING TEST
This mechanical aptitude test is ideal for the recruitment and selection of technical and trade personnel.
The Australian Council of Educational Research (ACER) Mechanical Reasoning Test is a test of mechanical reasoning ability. This ability can be broadly defined as the ability to perceive and understand relationships between components within a mechanism.
In order to successfully solve problems in technical trades, an understanding of the following is important:
Specific item content is wide ranging and includes:
Performance on the ACER Mechanical Reasoning Test is intended to be as independent as possible of mechanical knowledge and industry specific information. For this reason, diagrams used in the test show idiosyncratic mechanisms, rather than real-life mechanisms, with which some of the candidates may familiar with. For similar reasons, the use of technical terms within the test has been kept to a minimum.
Performance on the test is intended to be independent of reading ability: the amount of written text within the test has been kept to a minimum.
Testing for mechanical aptitude
Use the ACER Mechanical Reasoning Test for the selection of technical, trades personnel, and apprentices.
DOWNLOAD SAMPLE REPORT HERE.
This mechanical aptitude test is ideal for the recruitment and selection of technical and trade personnel.
The Australian Council of Educational Research (ACER) Mechanical Reasoning Test is a test of mechanical reasoning ability. This ability can be broadly defined as the ability to perceive and understand relationships between components within a mechanism.
In order to successfully solve problems in technical trades, an understanding of the following is important:
- Basic principles of physics in general, and mechanics in particular
- The ability to visualize movements of objects through space (three dimensional spatial ability)
- An understanding of the cause-effect relationships between mechanical components
Specific item content is wide ranging and includes:
- Wheels
- Gears
- Clamps
- Levers
- Sliding rods
- Shafts
- Pulleys
- Weights
- Springs
- Conveyor belts
- Fixed pivots
- Non-fixed pivots
Performance on the ACER Mechanical Reasoning Test is intended to be as independent as possible of mechanical knowledge and industry specific information. For this reason, diagrams used in the test show idiosyncratic mechanisms, rather than real-life mechanisms, with which some of the candidates may familiar with. For similar reasons, the use of technical terms within the test has been kept to a minimum.
Performance on the test is intended to be independent of reading ability: the amount of written text within the test has been kept to a minimum.
Testing for mechanical aptitude
Use the ACER Mechanical Reasoning Test for the selection of technical, trades personnel, and apprentices.
DOWNLOAD SAMPLE REPORT HERE.
