Best Career Aptitude Test Practices for Campus Placements

Job is not far from your fist if you have the correct idea about “how to prepare?” The first step of the ladder to climb begins rightly at THE APTITUDE.
About 90% of the organizations recruit by first conducting the written test, which is called as “Career Aptitude Test”. This is conducted for analyzing the candidate’s intelligence, mental ability and knowledge.

The aptitude test for placement for freshers may have different sections viz.

1. Mathematics
2. Verbal and Non-verbal reasoning
3. English
4. Technical

In the aptitude test section one is compulsorily present in all the written test, and the other sections may or may not be present.

SECTION 1 – MATHEMATICS

This section consists of topics from 6th std to 10th std of mathematics syllabus. The book to be preferred is – Quantitative Aptitude by R.S.Agarwal. This book consists of all the chapters necessary for the preparation of the test. You may also find many other options of the same in the market.

Link for Downloading R.S.AGARWAL pdf

SECTION 2 – VERBAL AND NON-VERBAL REASONING

This section consists of questions that need to be solved with mental and analytical ability. The topics can be like- Blood relations, puzzles, Venn diagrams, etc. The book preferred can be- Verbal and Non Verbal Reasoning by R.S.Agarwal. You may also find many other options of the same in the market.

Helpful Links are-

1. http://www.indiabix.com
2. http://www.scribd.com/doc/20826465/Verbal-and-Non-Verbal-Reasoning-by-r-s-Agarwal
3. http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/psychotests.htm

SECTION 3 – ENGLISH

Placement English test checks for your reading, writing and grammatical skills in English. This section may include comprehension, passages, error finding, rearranging of sentences, antonyms, synonyms, filling missing words, etc.

Links useful in preparing are-

1. http://www.englishgrammar.org/
2. http://www.ego4u.com/
3. http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/durrus/153/gramtoc.html

SECTION 4 :  TECHNICAL

This section includes questions from languages like C,C++,JAVA/.NET, may or may not include SQL and UNIX. Also questions from technical subjects as according to your branch may be included.

There are various sites that provide online aptitude tests free for preparation, like-

1. www.indiabix.com › Online Test
2. http://www.wiziq.com/tests/aptitude-test
3. http://www.indiaeducation.net/onlinetest/aptitude.asp
4. http://www.wiziq.com/tests/aptitude-test