Help!? Aptitude Test for Cert 2 Electrotechnology Studies

Thanks everyone for your replies...

As Sully has suggested they could be Psychometric tests, I have done a heap of them on different topics and if its what they do use i will be okay.... (They are more real world based)

I imagine any maths will be at somewhere around the year 10 level, unfortunately it has been 23 years since i did year 10! :)

Trying to brush up on my algebra, trig, pi, Pythagoras etc at the moment... its not going well!

As for a slide rule :) Im not quite that old, but calculators were rather new in my day :)

Wouldn't stress, I faildded year 10, now I iz a lektrishan:D

go to www.ee-oz.com.au

they built the tests and they are on the front page of their website, you can do them as many times as you want

Sorry for the slow reply, it seems everything has been competing for my time of late.

So an update of how it was...

The aptitude test was such a crock of $#!^ and so geared towards the school leaver it was just plain scary.

So I arrive at 8am (4 people didn't make it for the appointment, to early I guess?!?!) no surprises that everyone is in their very early 20's or younger and interestingly 1 girl too.

Chatting to one bloke who is 21 and he is very nervous about the maths component in the aptitude test because its been 3 years since he was at school! Eeek! I laughed and explained to him the last time i was at school was before he was born!

Any way first part is 10 mins to fill out a form about you, standard guff, name, address etc, then onto the questions, stuff like:

Describe your greatest work achievements..... (with room to write 2 sentences) My CV is 8 pages and only covers the last 10 years of my employment history!

List your sporting achievements and awards.... Sport? Ummmm? i've started playing lawn bowls recently with a few of the locals, because any sport you can play whilst having a beer at 1980's bar prices is a sport for me.. (I chose not to include this) Was so tempted to just take the ****! Sporting achievements? Perhaps a world class bull**** artist :)

And it just went down hill from here!

It really wasn't an aptitude test, there was no Psychometric tests at all, nothing mechanical, electrical, logic etc. No spelling (except filling in contact details)

Tests - 2x Maths and 1x Comprehension.

Comprehension i flew through no worries at all, but the Maths i was just to slow, 50 questions 20mins (24secs per question) if you didn't know the answer straight off you had no time to work through it.

So all in all i was disappointed with my result, next part is an interview this Friday.

I might need to practice wearing my pants half way down my arse and saying stuff like 'yo dude wassup?' or equivalent :)

go to www.ee-oz.com.au
on their home page on the right hand side is the tests they are free and you can do them as many times as you want

ee-oz is the organisation that made the tests, you even get a score at the end and it shows you which ones you got wrong - it is very good

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Originally Posted by grumpybastard

I might need to practice wearing my pants half way down my arse and saying stuff like 'yo dude wassup?' or equivalent :)

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I know the feeling. I felt like I needed to do that after buying a nissan silvia turbo to fit to my landie.

I'm sure your score would have been better than average. Just turning up and writing your name is probably worth 50%!

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Originally Posted by grumpybastard

Sorry for the slow reply, it seems everything has been competing for my time of late.

So an update of how it was...

The aptitude test was such a crock of $#!^ and so geared towards the school leaver it was just plain scary.

So I arrive at 8am (4 people didn't make it for the appointment, to early I guess?!?!) no surprises that everyone is in their very early 20's or younger and interestingly 1 girl too.

Chatting to one bloke who is 21 and he is very nervous about the maths component in the aptitude test because its been 3 years since he was at school! Eeek! I laughed and explained to him the last time i was at school was before he was born!

Any way first part is 10 mins to fill out a form about you, standard guff, name, address etc, then onto the questions, stuff like:

Describe your greatest work achievements..... (with room to write 2 sentences) My CV is 8 pages and only covers the last 10 years of my employment history!

List your sporting achievements and awards.... Sport? Ummmm? i've started playing lawn bowls recently with a few of the locals, because any sport you can play whilst having a beer at 1980's bar prices is a sport for me.. (I chose not to include this) Was so tempted to just take the ****! Sporting achievements? Perhaps a world class bull**** artist :)

And it just went down hill from here!

It really wasn't an aptitude test, there was no Psychometric tests at all, nothing mechanical, electrical, logic etc. No spelling (except filling in contact details)

Tests - 2x Maths and 1x Comprehension.

Comprehension i flew through no worries at all, but the Maths i was just to slow, 50 questions 20mins (24secs per question) if you didn't know the answer straight off you had no time to work through it.

So all in all i was disappointed with my result, next part is an interview this Friday.

I might need to practice wearing my pants half way down my arse and saying stuff like 'yo dude wassup?' or equivalent :)

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Maybe a little more focus on what you are doing as opposed to the others would have helped with a clear head:p

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Originally Posted by rovercare

Maybe a little more focus on what you are doing as opposed to the others would have helped with a clear head:p

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Sounds like the old Commonwealth Public Service exams. Tests of literacy, numeracy, speed, accuracy, and reasoning. In theory only the best 10% of examinees could complete the papers in the allotted time.

It will be helpful to have a basic knowledge about electrotechnology. I found this article explains it quite well about the Electrotechnology : UEE22011 - Certificate II in Electrotechnology Darwin

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Originally Posted by Ivan

We used to do sine, cosine etc from books :o no calculators

Ivan

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Log tables were so much fun. The only calculator we used was a slide rule...