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Graduate Diploma in Systems Analysis (GDipSA)
Aptitude Test Sample
All GDipSA applicants are required to sit for the aptitude test. This is a test to measure your aptitudes for learning and performing the job of computer programming and systems analysis. There are four parts to the test and each part will be timed separately – Diagram Ability, Reasoning, Number Ability, and English Language Ability. It is designed to test your problem-solving ability, your ability to read and understand diagrams, etc. You can’t really study for the test. It is designed to test what abilities you have, as opposed to testing what facts or information you know.
Sample Questions
Diagramming [30
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D. Residence is not Type A?
E. Residence is not Type B?
Answer: (B)
Cell 2
A. Household Income > $ 5,000?
B. Household Income > $ 4,000?
C. Household Income > $ 3,000?
D. Housing Size > 100 m2?
E. Housing Size > 120 m2?
Answer: (E)
Cell 3
A. Housing Size > 80 m2?
B. Housing Size > 90 m2?
C. Housing Size > 100 m2?
D. Household Income > $ 3,000?
E. Household Income > $ 4,000?
Answer: (B)
SA-DIP/ Aptitude Test Sample 2012
Graduate Diploma in Systems Analysis
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Cell 4
A. Number of Children > 1?
B. Number of Children equals 1?
C. Number of Children > 2?
D. Number of Children equals 2?
E. Number of Children > 3?
Answer: (A)
Cell 5
A. Is Type A Count equals 10?
B. Is Type B Count equals 20?
C. Is Type C Count equals 30?
D. Is Type A Count equals 20?
E. Is Type B Count equals 30?
Answer: (D)
Reasoning [30 Marks]
Question 31- 60
This is a test of your ability to reason and to express problems in a simple form using conventional mathematical symbols. The items in the test require you to read a problem and formulate an answer for it.
Sample question 1: A new homeowner ordered an air-conditioning system which costs A dollars, six wardrobes which cost W dollars a piece, and a dozen beds which cost B dollars each. The total cost of the order is
A. A + W + B
B. AB + 6W
C. A + 6W + 12B
D. A + (W + B) / 2
E. A + (2W +B)6
Answer: (C)
Sample question 2: S dollars are divided amongst 3 persons, so that the
Communication and Training: These are to train those who need to help and assist with the test.
To help students prepare well for any test, Gardner, Jewler and Barefoot (2008) offer some useful suggestions, some of which I will highlight herein. To begin with, one should attempt to gather as much
The vocabulary, spelling, punctuation, logical sentences, and sentence combining subtests are contrived tests where testing begins at question one regardless of age/grade, and continues until the student incorrect
These tests use reasoning, analysis, problem solving, and what your previous knowledge of the subject is. It measures the kinds of tasks that college students are expected to learn (http://www.act.org, 2004).
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The Woodcock-Johnson IV Test of Achievement (WJ IV) is used for individual ages two to ninety years old. A major strength of this assessment is that it provides a broad coverage of skills that can be assessed for the child to truly learn their strengths and weaknesses. For English as a Second Language students, the administrator can administer certain clusters of subtests to determine a child’s cognitive-academic language proficiency. Also, the test has many accommodations listed to help when testing English Language Learners, visual impairments, and other disabilities to provide the best testing environment for the student. A weakness of this assessment is that since so many subtests exist, it can become very easy to over
Mathematics: The rubric used with the assessment checks for students’ understanding and work process through all problems presented on the quiz: do they understand the concept? Are they able to follow the process correctly? The rubric focuses on John’s thought and reasoning process.
• Not suitable for assessing large amounts of subject knowledge and understanding as it not supposed to be a memory test. It is best utilised to plug knowledge gaps that have occurred in other areas of assessment.
A portion of the standardized test material, is testing what is learned outside of a classroom. (Popham 13)
In this paper, I will present my findings about the two testing (Cognitive Ability Test
Each year many high school students are encouraged to take standardized tests. They are told how essential the tests are and to spend vast amounts of time preparing for them. Although many people think that standardized tests are a useful tool for the measurement of students’ aptitude and intelligence, they are ineffective to represent the true proficiency of their understanding.
h. Calculate the rooms sold, occupancy %, and sales dollars he will need to break even if he opens the gift shop.
3) Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement is comprehensive form which test mathematics applications, reading decoding, spelling, reading comprehension, mathematics computation
1) Develop a chart (matrix) of 1000−1,250 words that compares and contrasts the different types of assessments, the characteristics of each, and for what situations each is best suited. It should address the following: