<p>The one I took was more of an aptitude test - they actually tested what you were good at as opposed to asking you questions about what you enjoy doing or think you are good at. A lot of it was like an IQ test. (Envisioning objects from different angles for example.)</p>
<p>Envisioning objects from different angles? I could never be a dentist because I don’t want to put my hands in anyone’s mouth and because you have to be able to picture things backwards, like in those little mirrors the dentist uses in your mouth. Have you ever done a conference call on a web cam? I did one once and the screen image of me was real but I wanted it to be a mirror - my hair was sticking up funny on the right side of my head and I kept trying to pat down the left side of my head… a bad hair day… Apparently I can’t picture things backwards easily. But I digress. Sorry…</p>
<p>An aptitude test, like mathmom said, would be more useful than a preference based test. We took the Kuder Preference Test in high school. I remember thinking at the time that the results were very accurate about what jobs I would not like to do…</p>
<p>I remember in junior high, we were all given a “Scholastic Aptitude Test.” They handed us our results in gym class and that was the first time my friends & I realized that people really did score all over the curve. My folks were shocked and upset that I scored abysmally on “clerical speed & accuracy” (which I’m still awful at). Most of the rest of the scores were very good & they couldn’t reconcile the disparity. There were kids in gym that really did score in the bottom 10%tile and were trying to get the teacher to explain what that meant.</p>
<p>The test was accurate for me–I was a clerk typist that summer and it could take me an entire day to type ONE form–you had the original, the white carbon copy, the yellow copy, the green copy, the pink copy, etc. and you had to correct EACH copy with the appropriate white out or correction tape! Word processors were a godsend!</p>
<p>My neighbor’s son took a career placement exam & was told he would be a good grade school or preschool teacher–he was very insulted. He retook it & was told he’d be a good pediatrician. He’s majoring in history now.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins program allows kids to take an optional spatial relations test. S took it & it confirmed that he was good at it as he has always been at all math & science things. D opted not to take it, so we’re not sure how she would have done. Don’t recall either taking any aptitude testing, tho D took the Meyers-Brigg career test for CC.</p>
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<p>LOL, that’s exactly the wording of the one I was no good at - might have been the same test! above 90th percentile in everything else, way below average in that!</p>
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<p>The idea that people/institutions use Myers-Briggs as a career test is somewhat terrifying to me.</p>
<p>I would rather take the tests on facebook that tell you what your career should be (I would be President) and what Grey’s Anatomy character or shoe you are!</p>