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Employers want to fill their top management posts with candidates of the highest caliber. Any mistake in their recruitment process can mean wasteful costs in both time and money. Consequently, recruitment to any management post follows a rigorous selection which can include a range of psychometric tests. The Graduate Psychometric Test Workbook provides essential preparation for graduates or managers who face psychometric tests. With correct training and practice candidates can improve their scores, and this workbook provides that opportunity. This second edition contains even more practice material and realistic timed mock tests. The larger format allows space for writing answers and notes, and there are detailed explanations of answers with interpretations of scores.
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THE GRADUATE PSYCHOMETRIC TEST WORKBOOK Essential preparation for quantitative reasoning, data interpretation and verbal reasoning tests
2nd edition
ADVANCED LEVEL
MIKE BRYON
i London and Philadelphia
Publisher’s note Every possible effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this book is accurate at the time of going to press, and the publishers and authors cannot accept responsibility for any errors or omissions, however caused. No responsibility for loss or damage occasioned to any person acting, or refraining from action, as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by the editor, the publisher or any of the authors. First published in Great Britain and the United States in 2005 by Kogan Page Limited Second edition 2010 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms and licences issued by the CLA. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside these terms should be sent to the publishers at the undermentioned addresses: Kogan Page Limited 120 Pentonville Road London N1 9JN United Kingdom www.koganpage.com
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© Mike Bryon, 2005, 2010 The right of Mike Bryon to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. ISBN 978 0 7494 5405 0 EISBN 978 0 7494 5886 7 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bryon, Mike. The graduate psychometric test workbook : essential preparation for quantitative reasoning, data interpretation, and verbal reasoning tests / Mike Bryon. -- 2nd ed. p. cm. ISBN 978-0-7494-5405-0 1. Employment tests--Study guides. 2. Universities and colleges--Graduate work-Examinations--Study guides. 3. Psychometrics. I. Title. HF5549.5.E5B778 2009 658.4⬘071125--dc22 2009034469 Typeset by Saxon Graphics Ltd, Derby Printed and bound in India by Replika Press Pvt Ltd
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Preface
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Psychometric testing in context How to make best use of this workbook Set yourself a personal challenge Try not to fear failure
1 4 5 8
2
Graduate personality questionnaire Test 1: Graduate personality questionnaire
9 12
3
Analysis of information Test 2: Analysis of information Test 3: Analysis of information
51 53 77
4
20 numerical reasoning mini-tests
103
5
Two realistic data interpretation tests Test 4: Data interpretation Test 5: Data interpretation
166 167 181
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