Get your students to master Aptitude tests. Part (2 of 4)

This is the Part 2 of our 4 part series of articles on: Get your students to master Aptitude tests. Read the previous part here.

In the previous part of our article we discussed about how students end up getting better at only a few topics if they prepare by themselves. Let’s look at 2 other common mistakes that happen if the training is not done right.

Based on our experience training students, another insight we can draw is related to situations when they are not able to solve the problem. If the training is not done right or the student is preparing by themselves, the natural tendency is to jump and look at the solution given behind the book quickly. This is a very short-term approach and it doesn’t improve the problem solving skills of the students. So, if the student doesn’t face a similar problem in the exam and faces tougher problems, he or she might not be able to answer them since he or she does not have solutions part of the book to come for the rescue. The right way to teach aptitude is to discuss the problem, encourage discussions and teach the students the way in which aptitude problems have to be decoded rather than to teach them the solutions.

The way they approach the problems that they solved correctly can also be improvised:

a. Sometimes these problems can be solved faster and in much simpler ways. We have again gone through the data to look at the average time taken by the students to solve a question. The students who undergo the training of aptitude take around 42 seconds to solve a question while the students who don’t undergo training take around 75 seconds.

b. And there are some problems, which though can be solved but shouldn’t be solved for the simple reason that they are time-consuming. Whenever aptitude training is not done the right way, students tend to jump at problems which appear easier and solve without foreseeing how much time it would take. At the end of the day, no company cares if you have solved tough problems. They only look at the overall score. This simple idea will be lost on the students if the training is not done right.

These insights point out at how important it is to train your students on Aptitude the right way.

What are the commonly asked topics in an aptitude exam? And what are the features of an ideal aptitude training program? We will look at these in the next article.

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