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Right Choice Product Brief-19oct07

The document summarizes a vocational guidance program that helps students identify their aptitudes, interests, and personality characteristics through a series of tests. The 4-hour process involves psychometric assessment of abilities, interests, and personality; interpretation of results by a psychologist; presentation of career options; and individual counseling if needed. Tests evaluate abilities like verbal reasoning, abstract reasoning, spatial relations, mechanical reasoning, and numerical ability. Interests in medicine, engineering, commerce, arts, or fine arts are also assessed. The personality test aims to create self-awareness of social and emotional adjustment.

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Right Choice Product Brief-19oct07

The document summarizes a vocational guidance program that helps students identify their aptitudes, interests, and personality characteristics through a series of tests. The 4-hour process involves psychometric assessment of abilities, interests, and personality; interpretation of results by a psychologist; presentation of career options; and individual counseling if needed. Tests evaluate abilities like verbal reasoning, abstract reasoning, spatial relations, mechanical reasoning, and numerical ability. Interests in medicine, engineering, commerce, arts, or fine arts are also assessed. The personality test aims to create self-awareness of social and emotional adjustment.

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Right Choice (Vocational Guidance Programme)

A vocational guidance program helps a student to identify his aptitude, interest and personality
characteristics. It consists of a series of tests whose result indicates a student’s strength and enables him/
her to choose the right career.

The test is offered to students from standard VIII to XII. Prior to the test a brief personal history of the
student is taken.

The process of vocational guidance is completed within four hours. It consists of four steps:

I. Psychometric Assessment
This assesses the Aptitudes, Interest and Personality of a student

1. Aptitude
Aptitude indicates the individual’s ability or capacity to acquire skills and knowledge as a result
of training. It indicates strength in a given area and predicts success in studies, training
programmes and careers, which require competencies in that area.
The five areas assessed are:
a. Verbal Reasoning: A test to determine how well one can think and reason with the help of
language.

b. Abstract Reasoning: An intelligence test to find how well one can think without the use of
concrete material /language.

c. Spatial Relations: A test to determine the ability to visualize different shapes and sizes of two
and three-dimensional figures.

d. Mechanical Reasoning: A test to find the ability to apply scientific principles to day-to-day
machines used in the environment.

e. Numerical Ability: A test to determine how quick and accurate an individual is in dealing
with numbers.

2. Interest
This test measures a students likes and dislikes for certain objects, activities, whether thought
about or actually encountered. An inventory to find out the pattern of interests developed in any
of the five specific vocational areas, namely Medicine; Engineering; Commerce; Arts and
Fine arts.

3. Personality
The personality test is one that is aimed at creating self-awareness. It indicates the degree of
social and emotional adjustment with the self and others.

II. Interpretation of test result by Counselling Psychologist.

III. Presentation on career options to parents and students followed by question & answer session.

IV. Individual Counselling (If required)


Fee per student: Rs. 450 plus applicable service tax.

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