EDUCATION

What After 10th/12th? Take An Aptitude Test

With the world providing zillion opportunities to the youth, it is only natural to get confused while choosing a career path. Don’t let this confusion, however, let you make the wrong decision and make you choose a career path that will hamper your growth. Instead, take an aptitude test and wipe out the confusion.

Aptitude test plays the role of a guiding light that helps you take the right path. An aptitude test is taken to test one’s ability to perform a particular skill or work in a particular field.

Let’s look at some of the key benefits that aptitude tests offer: 

Clears confusion

Once you give an aptitude test, your results will reveal to you your strengths and weaknesses. Once you know that, making a choice out of the shortlisted career/course list will become easy, thus helping you to pick one field. You might also end up getting a new career/course option which you can opt for based on your results. 

Tells you the difference between your aptitude and interest

You might have an interest in a particular field, eg. copywriting, but you might not have the ability/aptitude to put down your creativity into words. Thus, before you proceed to pursue your interest, you must be sure of having an aptitude for the same. Taking an aptitude test will tell you if you have a good scope in a particular field or no based on your aptitude. 

Throws Light On Your Weaknesses

It tells you where you are falling weak and makes you realise what you should work in order to improvise. It also indicates what additional courses and qualification you can pursue in order to develop and hone your qualities.

Increase Your Chances At Success

Aptitude tests enable you to make an informed decision. Instead of you yourself exploring your abilities after getting into a particular field, an aptitude test informs you beforehand what you are good at and in what field will you perform well. This will thus increase your chances of achieving success in the field you choose. 

There are various kinds of aptitude tests that test different skills of an individual. Some of the most common forms of aptitude tests are: 

Verbal Aptitude Test

This test is taken to understand one’s ability to use a particular language. A verbal test tests one ability to read, spell, understand the written concepts, use the correct grammar and understand the meaning of the words of a particular language. 

Numerical Aptitude Test

As the name goes, this test checks how friendly one is with the numbers. Here your knowledge of numbers will be tested. This kind of test will involve questions based on basic arithmetic, numerical logic and reasoning, and numerical word problems. 

Non-Verbal Aptitude Test

A non-verbal test revolves around visuals. It tests the ability of understanding and analyzing content presented in a visual format. This test is free from the use of text and is used to test one’s abstract reasoning and diagrammatic reasoning. It tells you how well you are with visuals.

If you have just given your 10th or 12th exam or have graduated and are not able to pick one option, you must definitely give an aptitude test in order to make the right decision. 

Aakanksha Ahire

Aakanksha is a feature writer covering youth centric beats involving education, careers, health, lifetsyle, culture, and mental health. Though a Gen Z, she is a Millennial at heart. You can connect with her @aakankshahire

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