Aptitude Tests

soccymonster

has anyone done those aptitude tests in your school yet??? or do you have them?? i heard they are s'pposed to be pointless because they never really decide your career!!! :rolleyes:..

Fad

They give you a solid unbiased figure of what your good/bad in specific areas*.

However, they really have no point, I did the DATs, the only result I can see is my overflowing Physics class, as every who saw they have decent Mechanical reasoning decided they should do physics.

(*and in some areas theyre not accurate)

Take them with a grain of salt.

Ave Sodalis

I find them helpful for guiding you but not choosing anything. For example, somehow, I managed to score highest in drama yet I have no intrest in acting. However my next highest was agriculture and I have a big intrest in horses.

Fad

sup_dude wrote: »

I find them helpful for guiding you but not choosing anything. For example, somehow, I managed to score highest in drama yet I have no intrest in acting. However my next highest was agriculture and I have a big intrest in horses.

I think the OP was refering to the DAT tests, not the interest tests (Pathfinder I think?) they are ridiculous.

Cloakroom attendant is listed as a career.
Midwifery was my top result, I think there should be a gender input at some stage of the test..........

soccymonster

Fad wrote: »

I think the OP was refering to the DAT tests, not the interest tests (Pathfinder I think?) they are ridiculous.

Cloakroom attendant is listed as a career.
Midwifery was my top result, I think there should be a gender input at some stage of the test..........

whats a cloakroom attendant???
yeah, i knew a girl that wanted to be a nurse but she did some test and it said that she should be a carpenter???
like wtf?

Fad

soccymonster wrote: »

whats a cloakroom attendant???
yeah, i knew a girl that wanted to be a nurse but she did some test and it said that she should be a carpenter???
like wtf?

The guy who takes coats and stuff in nightclubs, putting them in the Cloakroom........

soccymonster

Fad wrote: »

The guy who takes coats and stuff in nightclubs, putting them in the Cloakroom........

god! that would suck!

eVeNtInE

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Piste

The DATs (are they DATs that you're doing?) don't decide your career as such, only you can do that! What they do is give you an indication of what your strengths and weaknesses are.

Echo72

we did ours month ago, at thevery end of the mocks. Now, third year is over and we still don't have them back. I'm quite an opinionated person, so I don't think they'll have any long term affect on my decisions career waise and all that kind of thing (which is kind of funny to be saying, seeing as I'm only 15 ).

partyatmygaff

Echo72 wrote: »

we did ours month ago, at thevery end of the mocks. Now, third year is over and we still don't have them back. I'm quite an opinionated person, so I don't think they'll have any long term affect on my decisions career waise and all that kind of thing (which is kind of funny to be saying, seeing as I'm only 15 ).

Please, Don't become an English teacher.

lol


We got ours back after 2 weeks, pointless stuff, I got a rounded result, I was equal at everything minus languages which I was hopeless at.

Ruanej90

Our School had a thing like that on for Junior Cert students (like me)60 or so people did it i can't remember the title but it's abbreviation is P.I.S.A

soccymonster

i got back my results for that test yoke..
i didnt even know what most of it meant????
the guidance counsellor (or whoever he is!) tried to predict that i was a very business person from my results?? eh, well sorry but im more of a sciencey person, idiot! god, they are so pointless :pac:

GirlsAloud

We did an Eirquest one..
It told me something based In Chemistry, something based in Physics or something based in Biology.. and I was like wooooo. that's me.