Think it’s soon to think about skill assessments or Aptitude Tests in college? Think again! Students of final year college have to deal with aptitude tests right before placements, be it exclusive company specific aptitude tests or employability tests like AMCAT Test. While placements may seem a long way off it’s never too early to start preparing for the tests.
You have at least 6-8 months and with proper planning, you can ace these tests and interview rounds. You can also look up our step by step preparation guide for acing the chance at your dream company.
Preparation Guide for Aptitude Tests:
Here is a snapshot of all the tasks ahead of you in the course of preparation for aptitude tests –
- Gather information about Aptitude Tests
- Study all the subjects and identify crucial topics
- Attempt sample
- Create information sheets and reference
- Revise important topics
1. Gather information about Aptitude Tests
Right now, about 7-8 months prior to campus placement season, is the best time to do some research work regarding the aptitude tests you may have to write for placement season.
A. Talk to seniors –
Your recently graduated seniors will help you with all the aptitude tests that helped them. If possible take sample papers and any material from them, as well as tips. This is the right time to approach them as they are fresh out of college and will remember the tiny details versus when you ask them 6 months down the line!
B. Approach your campus placement cell –
Get a list of the companies who conduct aptitude tests. Most placement cells are willing to give this information.
C. External aptitude tests –
Search online on forums like Quora or Reddit to get information about external aptitude tests like AMCAT test that will help you with skill assessment and help you get a job.
Do this research over a few weeks and create a list of all the aptitude tests with tentative dates and costs of each test. This way you will be prepared and not miss any of them! Remember each and every opportunity could lead you to your dream job and a brilliant career!
2. Study all subjects and identify crucial topics:
Approximately, 5-6 months prior to the tests is the right time to revisit the general subjects like Quantitative Ability, Logical Ability and English as well as course-specific engineering technical subjects.
The aptitude tests cover the most basic concepts which you may have studied in high school and are out of touch in college.
Choose a textbook or a book meant for Aptitude tests written by authors like Dr. RS Aggarwal. Study all the topics and concentrate on important topics. Some of the important topics for aptitude tests like AMCAT tests are –
A. Quantitative Ability
| Basic Mathematics | Divisibility HCM & LCM Numbers, Decimal Fractions & Power |
| Applied Mathematics | Profit & Loss Simple and compound interest Time, Speed and Distance Inverse |
| Engineering Mathematics | Logarithms Permutations & Combinations Probability |
B. Logical Ability
| Deductive Reasoning | Coding deductive logic Data Sufficiency, Directional Sense, Logical Word Sequence Objective Reasoning Selection decision tables Puzzles |
| Inductive Reasoning | Coding pattern and Number series pattern recognition Analogy and Classification pattern recognition |
| Abductive Reasoning | Logical word sequence Data sufficiency |
C. Verbal Ability
| Vocabulary | Synonyms Antonyms Contextual Vocabulary |
| Grammar | Error Identification Sentence Improvement and Construction |
| Comprehension | Reading Comprehension |
3. Attempt Sample Papers
Approximately, 2-3 months prior to the tests is the right time to attempt sample papers. By now you would have prepared with the subject knowledge. It is time to prepare for other aspects of the aptitude tests like testing against time and completing the entire test paper.
Solve as many sample papers as you can, averaging at least 1 sample paper per day. It will be a tough task managing this with your exam and college schedules but this will hold you in good stead during the actual placement season.
Here are some links to sample papers related to general as well as engineering subjects.
4. Create reference material:
Information sheets are concise documents with important information like formulae, grammar rules, word lists, engineering concepts etc. Create separate sheets for each section and file them in a folder.
These sheets should be able to be sufficient to go through in the last few hours prior to your aptitude test. You can even create these sheets with a few friends and share them with each other.
5. Revise important topics
Keep revising the important topics till a week prior to the aptitude tests. Once the placement season begins, you will need to concentrate on multiple things like preparing for your group discussions and preparing for the technical round of interviews.
The key to success is to be prepared and not let go of each and every opportunity available to you. Use this preparation guide and crack the aptitude tests with ease!
is module score is important to get a call from companies I got 288score in module can you tell best website to prepare electronics and communication am going to retake my exam
Hi Keerthi,
subject module score is absolutely important, and companies do give a lot of weightage to score obtained in subject module. You can take reference from the previous years’ sample papers to prepare well for the exam. You can find the electronics sample papers here
Also, you can subscribe for PrepAMCAT this time, and check your preparation before giving the main exam.
Hope this helps. All the best
1)Can we attempt AMCAT test more than once in a year?
2)If yes , then how often can we attempt? like once in six months or once in 3 months and so on..
3)Are we allowed to chose different modules for successive tests ? Like EE module in one test , EC in other and CSE in the next?
I hope you clear my doubts…
THANK YOU!
Hi Adithya,
1. Yes, you can appear for amcat more than once in a year.
2. You can give the test after 45 days of your last attempt. (However, it is recommended to give it at least 4-5 months before thinking about giving amcat again, since companies take some time to process scored of all the candidates they may have shortlisted and roll out interview calls).
3. Yes you can choose different modules in every attempt. However, that should be on the basis of your job requirement and subject knowledge.
Hope this helps.