Guides to the tests themselves
Every page below names the publisher document behind it and the day it was read. Where a number is not published at all — a passing score, a breakdown by question type — the page tells you that, so you are not left hunting for one that does not exist.
How the CCAT is scored
What a CCAT score actually is: a raw count out of 50 plus a percentile, no penalty for wrong answers, and a published average of 24.
Wonderlic vs Wonderlic Select
Wonderlic Select is the current assessment: three sections, one timed.
How to pace 50 questions in 15 minutes
4. What that actually means to do: how to decide in two seconds whether to attempt a question, and when to stop trying to finish.
How the IBEW aptitude test is scored
What an IBEW aptitude test score is, what the publisher reports, and why nobody — including the applicant — is given the number.
What is on the CritiCall test
The CritiCall module library, why no two agencies test the same thing, the four decision rules the publisher tells candidates to learn, and what it publishes.
Which firefighter written test will I take?
Four publishers sell four different firefighter entry exams. What each contains, what each publishes, and how to find out which one is yours.
Bennett or Wiesen: which mechanical test?
Two tests are sold as “the mechanical aptitude test” and they are different lengths. What each publisher prints about the Bennett and the Wiesen, and what both actually ask.
Which test will my employer use
How to tell a CCAT from a Wonderlic before you sit it: the publisher, the clock, the invitation email, and what to do when the email does not say.
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