Spatial Aptitude Test

Measures your Visualization Skills

Want to be an engineer, architect or computer scientist? If you do, take the Spatial Aptitude Test to measure your aptitude for these types of careers. For these careers, and some in the natural sciences and mathematical field, your ability to visualize, use critical reasoning and perceive new concepts is tested solving physics, geometry, and chemistry problems.

Employers put good candidates through the spatial aptitude test and it can be tailor-made to test the candidate’s aptitude for a specific job. By taking this test it also helps you to assess how you think, how it affects and how to use it in your career.The spatial aptitude test measures all parts of your personality and helps you and a potential employer to identify your strengths and weaknesses, and your suitability for the position and organization you have applied for.

Do you know what Spatial Ability Is?

Spatial ability is simply the way you think. It is how you see, imagine, perceive and express yourself. Your spatial ability is linked to your critical reasoning skills to help you solve complex issues.

It is about how you see something in your head. Can you manipulate an object in your imagination? Can you turn it around, see it from different angles and yet you have trouble with words or numbers. If this sounds like you, it is likely you have a high level of spatial awareness.

Spatial ability is one of the eight cognitive skills that form your intelligence. You begin developing spatial awareness from early childhood. Did you play sport or computer games as a child? These activities play a strong role in developing your spatial abilities early in your life.

Spatial ability is described as:

• How you rotate and flip diagrams and shapes over in your imagination.

• How you reorganize shapes from varying angles in your imagination.

• How you see links between all sorts of spatial objects.You need to visualize concepts for many jobs, such as architects and engineers, and have the spatial ability to take that concept to reality.

Sit the Test to Discover you Abilities

There are many careers that require higher than normal spatial abilities:

• Jobs using Mathematics: If you love mathematics and working with numbers you may want a career as an accountant, economist or as an auditor. The spatial aptitude test measures your aptitude to solve mathematical problems with your spatial skills.

• Your Interest is Natural Science: For a field of natural sciences you need some spatial ability to theorize about concepts and experiment to test your theories out. You need the ability to take your ideas and express them on paper or as a model depicting complex structures of atoms and particles.

• Engineering Career: Your spatial abilities are crucial for a career as engineer as you design new concepts and need to get them from inside your head into workable models and paper-based designs to have them built.

• A Career in Computers: To work in the computer field you need highly developed spatial skills. Designing software and computer systems comes easy to those who love and understand computer technology.

• Design Buildings: If you yearn to build buildings and houses then you need the same spatial skills as an engineer.

What the Spatial Aptitude Test Measures

There are many factors to testing your spatial ability and your ability to manipulate shapes:

• Your spatial reasoning may be tested using multi dimensional shapes to reach the correct answer.

• You will need to identify patterns and forms from shapes of varying sizes to test your spatial ability.

• You may need to visualize taking a shape apart and reassembling it somewhere else, making allowances for the differences in the area you are reassembling the shape in.

Other areas covered in the spatial aptitude test

• Your ability to measure the volume, width and length of something.

• How you portray what is in your imagination logically as a model or drawing.

• Your ability to navigate and how you interpret directions to read a map.

Make sure you are relaxed when you start the test and, if you come across some questions you need to think about to answer, leave them and come back to them later if you can.