Time Limited Online Assessment Question

QuantumP

In an online assessment that's time limited, of course working accurately and quickly is best but there's always going to be a trade off between the two. I'm wondering which is the better approach from a HRM's perspective:

A) A candidate who works as fast as possible but compromises accuracy
A candidate who works carefully to ensure accuracy but compromise speed

Thanks in advance,
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QuantumP

bigdata wrote: »

C) A candidate who can answer all the questions in time.

:rolleyes:

bluestrattos

I would go with B.

"Slow but sure".

From a management perspective, I would prefer to have someone that will take 100hours, to complete 5 tasks, but knowing that everything would be working, rather someone doing the same tasks under 50hours, but then, having to use an undefined amount of hours to get everything fixed.

Oregano_State

Yeah I've done a few of these recently and gotten through all of them. I didn't finish any of the sections in any of them. In my most recent one I think I got to question 18 out of 24, but I was reasonably sure I got most of them right.

Glinda

One useful tip for this type of test (assuming you can scroll back and forward between all the questions) is to pick a first question you know you can do, then do all the questions similar to this one, then go back and pick another type you know you can do easily and do all those. That way you don't lose out on questions you could easily do while struggling with ones you're not so good at, and you also don't have to change mental 'gears' so often, you can get in the zone for one type of question and motor through.

Best of luck with the test OP.

Oregano_State

Glinda wrote: »

One useful tip for this type of test (assuming you can scroll back and forward between all the questions) is to pick a first question you know you can do, then do all the questions similar to this one, then go back and pick another type you know you can do easily and do all those. That way you don't lose out on questions you could easily do while struggling with ones you're not so good at, and you also don't have to change mental 'gears' so often, you can get in the zone for one type of question and motor through.

Best of luck with the test OP.

I'm not sure I would go along with this. In the most recent one I did anyway, there was no scrolling back and forth allowed.

Also, you have so little time to do the questions (less than a minute usually) that once you've read them you either know how to answer it after a few seconds or you don't have much of a hope. By the time you've read through a few of them you've probably missed out on a chance to answer one or two. That's my take on it anyway.