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Test and Assess Your IQ
the wrong choice has been made, then the whole process has
to be repeated.
Employers also use tests to identify suitable jobs for people
within an organisation. These tests can be helpful to both the
employer and the candidate in identifying strengths and weaknesses,
and thus help to find the job for which a person is
most suited.
Such tests are designed to give an objective assessment of
the candidate’s abilities in a number of disciplines, for
example in verbal understanding, numeracy, logic and spatial,
or diagrammatic, reasoning skills. Unlike personality tests,
which are also used by employers in conjunction with IQ
tests, aptitude (IQ) tests are marked, and may have a cut-off
point above which you pass, and below which you fail or need
to be assessed again.
Although it is accepted that IQ remains constant
throughout life, and therefore it is not possible to increase
your actual IQ, it is possible to improve your performance on
IQ tests by practising the many different types of question, and
learning to recognise the recurring themes.
Besides their uses in improving performance on IQ tests,
practice on the type of questions that follow in this book has
the added advantage of exercising the brain. It is certainly the
case that many of us do not exercise our brain sufficiently, yet
it is perhaps the most important part of the human body. The
intricate web of nerves of the brain somehow manages to
regulate all the systems in the body, and at the same time
absorbs and learns from a continual intake of thoughts,
feelings and memories. It is the control centre for all our
movement, sleep, hunger and thirst: in fact virtually every
activity necessary for survival. Additionally all our emotions,
such as aggression, love, hate, elation and fear are controlled
by the brain. It also receives and interprets countless signals
sent to it from other parts of the body and from the external
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