Do's and Don'ts for Aptitude test

Do’s for Aptitude test

Practice. Practice. Practice.- Good practice requires dedication, working with focus, analyzing what went wrong, working on those weak spots and then hitting the practice material again. If you can't see consistent improvement in accuracy or speed, then you're not preparing right

Don't give up- "This is too hard." If you're struggling with numbers, then it takes time to get better. Don't give up. It's OK to fall, pick yourself up and keep going.

Practice with a fresh mind- Choose a time of the day that works for you. Be fresh when you sit down, keep distractions away, time yourself, adhere to the rules and when you take a swing at your practice test - do it with full concentration. Don't stop midway, don't abandon the test because it "didn't feel right." Once you start, don't stop until it's done. Then work on analysis.

Pay attention to the tips - No matter what material you use for practice, absorb the tips and short-cut techniques. Employ them. In our tests we often show tips in the solution or explain how you could solve a question faster.

Tune your mind to compute - Test materials are great, but for flexing your mind muscles on numerical ability and quantitative aptitude, the world around you offers plenty of practice.

Scan the paper – A one or two minute time spending to scan the paper will actually contribute to save your overall time

Options Reduction – Option reduction is one of the important concepts which can be applied to almost all the questions. Reduction of useless options will help you to find the answer faster and more accurate.

Don’ts for aptitude test

 Not preparing for the format of the test - not a surprise. Going into a test or a case interview without really knowing the format of the assessment is a basic, yet very widely committed mistake!

Using poor question solving strategy - there are usually three ways of solving quantitative questions (a) compute the answer (b) use the answers and see which answer fits the question (backsolving) (c) eliminate answers that don't make sense.

Not reading the entire question - Many test takers will jump to solving the first part of the question before even reading the entire question. Read the entire question first

Marking the wrong answer - solving for (b) and marking (c), a single wrong question can mean not progressing to the next round. Take just 2 seconds (literally) to cross-check that you marked the question you really intended to.

Insufficient preparation - the biggest mistake of them all. Not taking the time and effort to do many practice tests, analyze weakness, and improve upon them. Assuming that just doing a 'bunch of tests' will improve numerical skills. If you're weak at these tests, the only way to get better is to practice, learn techniques to do better, analyze your weaknesses and strengths and do more tests by addressing them.

Making the blind guesses – one of the biggest mistakes is to make a blind guess. If you are not well prepared, do not make any blind guess. This will reduce your preparation to zero. If you have marked any correct answer previously, this blind guess will nullify it.