Originally Posted by Doug the Head
Letīs stop kidding ourself, otherwise nobody would ever pass a psychology test as I yet have to fly with the īSaintsī that some people pretend they are when attending a job interview!
Think of it as a kind of IQ test! If you can figure out how to answer, you are smart enough to deal with problems/people. Good luck everybody!
I think you have missed the point completely regarding psychological testing. They are not looking for 'saints'. They are trying to find out people's charateristics, demonstrating where they have strengths and weaknesses. The idea is that you do the profile and other tests, then you are interviewed, which is a chance for them to question areas of choice regarding the results to the tests, which you don't know.
In a properly administered profile consisting of hundreds of questions under strict time limits you have little time to try to fathom out what they are getting at. That is the idea. They want you to answer with your instinctive reaction to the question. If you don't answer all the questions within the time limit then they should make you do it again.
They don't ask obvious questions like 'are you are leader or a follower?' They will use several different questions which will subtly find out the answer to that question.
PP