psych tests

[biz]

psychological tests are just crazy thats all you need to know.

[Shaidon]

What exactly do you mean by "burnt me out"? Most psychological tests incorporate math and other complex tasks on the tests. These are to measure and evaluate your cognitive and reasoning abilities. Pretty standard. As far as I have seen in the departments I tested with, most include a version of the MMPI as well as several other small psych tests as well as an oral interview. Every department is different with their psych and their testing process. It is entirely conceivable that you were given slightly different tests to ensure that no one cheated during the test. Don't stress it too much.

[Tim Dees]

I recently took my psych test - my final stage in the hiring process and Ive been nervous since.

It was nothing like I expected. The only part that I understood / recognized was similar to the MMPI. Other than that they effectively burnt me out with advanced math, complex instructions / reading comprehension and analysis, then the typical ...blank is to blank as blank is to blank... followed up with the Dr. interview. *(even that was more like an oral board than psych interview)*

The thing that gets me is 5 people tested at around the same time as me, and it seemed like my test was different than theirs.:confused:Forgive me for changing the title of the thread. I don't want my employers to get ideas about giving me a psych test. The result might leave me writing editorials with a crayon.

The MMPI is published in multiple versions, with the questions scrambled. They're the same in every exam, but not in the same order, to throw off people trying to cheat (although that could turn out worse than doing it yourself). The test is computer-scored, and the computer doesn't care what order the questions are in.

If you had math, reading comprehension, and analogies (that's the "blank is to blank" stuff), there was more than just a psych test involved. It sounds like they were also going for an IQ score, which most agencies don't care much about.