My middle child has lots of interests and a well-rounded set of talents. That always seemed like a good thing — until he started looking for colleges and talking about potential majors. When ...

Boys grow up to be engineers and computer scientists. Girls become nurses and teachers. That seems like an antiquated notion in a world where many students are encouraged to explore a wide range of ...

Employers use aptitude tests to evaluate applicants and identify those best suited for the position. This testing helps them quickly narrow down the applicant pool, allowing them to spend more time ...

There’s a reason the College Board scrubbed “aptitude” from the name of its big admission test two decades ago. The idea of a Scholastic Aptitude Test left the organization open to criticism that it ...

Many employers rely on pre-employment aptitude testing to help them compare applicants and quickly identify the strongest candidates. These tests give them a uniform way to assess crucial skills, such ...

A set of proficiency and aptitude tests from Psychometrics, Inc., Henderson, NV. Tests are available for many programming languages, including Ada, C, C++, CICS, COBOL, IBM 360/370 Assembler, Xbase ...

How good are you at collecting and managing information? How much do you think you’d enjoy a job where you teach an exercise routine, or raise fish in a hatchery? Can you complete this exercise that ...

Back in the day, the day being June 23, 1926, the very first Scholastic Aptitude Test was given to some 8,000 young people, most of them male, who labored for three hours and 45 minutes on problems in ...