Firms and colleges are now using psychometrics training as part of the hiring process. Participation in international and standardised testing programmes, or embarking on the difficult journey of establishing a robust national testing system, is a highly politicised matter. India has also started promoting these tests in companies and colleges. Online companies like CareerCo.in are already providing the online psychometrics tests for fresher’s as well as college students, to make them choose the right career at right time.
Examination results are poor measures of educational progress, as they are influenced by a particularly wide range of factors including selection effects relating to who takes the examination in a particular year and what subject’s pupils choose. What companies like careerco.in prefer is, to focus on measures derived from single tests focusing on a specific basic skill such as communication, mathematics or reading. Recent survey has seen major advances in educational psychometrics, or the science of testing. These in turn have permitted advances in economics, specifically a better understanding of the role of basic cognitive skills, largely generated in schools, in economic development.