WHAT ARE ANALYTICAL APPROACH TESTS WITH EXAMPLES
You must
have heard the term in education sector that a student must learn the concepts
using an analytical approach. The entry tests, scholarship tests or test
conducted for the job posts are mainly check the analytical approach of
students while solving the problems and giving the answers. There are
analytical reasoning questions of Mathematics, English, Sciences and subject
based questions in the tests. Analytical
approach test are mainly the aptitude tests that check the skills and
capability of candidates before entering the particular field. There are
students who are able to score high grades in the school/college exams because
of sharp memory and frequent practicing but don’t have an exact idea about the
concepts that were taught in the class. Analytical tests filter these students
from the ones who better know the concepts and are able to execute their
learning in the practical field. Studying using the analytical approach
enhances student’s critical thinking process, decision making skill, choosing
between two or more, sorting and managing the matters at best. A candidate who
passes analytical approached tests is able to resolve the practical life
problems with great patience and wisdom.
Analytical
approach tests are also checking the decision making skills, critical thinking
process and time management capacity of students. In analytical approach tests,
students have to decide between given options and have to complete the test in
time.
The study
systems that use analytical methods produce competent and knowledgeable
individuals for the society. Here we’ll tell you what is analytical approach
and what are tests examples:
Analytical
approach is a process of understanding, thinking, provides reasoning,
justifying and marking the correct reply.
In an analytical test, a student first understands the question, breaks
it into given and inquired segments, then thinks about possible outcomes and
responses, provides reason to best possible answer, approves it and ultimately
marks or writes the final outcome. As for example, there can multiple ways of
asking a simple question and a student should be able to recognize the basic
concept and giving the write answer every time.
Analytical
question example:
Oxygen
atomic number is 8. This is basic and simplest concept in science and most of
the students would know it if they are directly asked: What is the atomic
number of Oxygen?
Let’s see
whether the student is able to give the answer if there is twist in question.
1. Which element atomic number is 8?
2. What is the number of protons in the
Oxygen?
3. What is the number of electrons in
Oxygen?
4. How many electrons will be in the first
shell and why?
Also
students may be given with different atomic structures for an answer.
So
analytical approach is to see the things keeping in mind the manifold
possibilities and outcomes.
Analytical
tests can comprise only MCQs or a combination of MCQs and subjective questions.
Most analytical entry tests and job tests like NMDCAT, FPSC, PPSC are only MCQs
type questions. Multiple choice questions or MCQs means, you’ll be provided a
question with four or five options to choose one from. You’re provided with
bubble sheets to mark the right answer. Here you must be proficient in English grammar,
and textbook materials. The nature of
analytical test depends upon the level and outcome goals. As CSS tests are a
combination of MCQs and subjective questions.
How you can
be proficient in solving the analytical reasoning test is a million dollar
question. The capability of solving the analytical type test at best is
possible with having a background of analytical type of education.
Unfortunately,
in public schools many students even don’t know the term “analytical”. They are
provided with the already set answers which kills their potential of self
thinking and creativity. They are used to fixed set of questions and their
already fed answers. Most students from public schools even first time experience
an analytical type test while they are in the examination halls for the entry
tests whereas students from good private schools go through the process of
analytical reasoning and thinking while schooling.
It is a common practice to buy a book of MCQs
right before any analytical test and start memorizing it for the test which is
not very helpful if a student that is not backed with proper conceptual
studies. Self solving the piles of test books is useful when you do it with honesty otherwise let your friend, or any teacher to check and mark your self solved past papers to actually judge your capability and preparation for any test.
To be
proficient in giving an analytical test,
- One must not ONLY rely on past papers, or test guide books available online and in markets. You practice from it just as a reference.
- Don’t under rate the textbook content but read and understand it thoroughly.
- Make the analytical tests for you and solve it
- Two friends can make the test as per the pattern for each other and mark it
- Seek help from a teacher or join an academy
- You must be able to think out of box
- You must be able to break the problem into components
- Gravely Work on English grammar
- Start reading good English articles that are published online or in newspapers
- Stay updated with what is happening in the world,
- Watch news, listens at the healthy debates on the varied topics
- Keep good company of friends
As a student and a future candidate for many
tests, you need to widen your vision from today. You must listen to the teacher
in the classroom is the first step to grasp an analytical approach. As it is
mentioned above, almost all admission, job or scholarship tests have portions
of English or somewhere Mathematics analytical reasoning questions asides the
main test.
One sample
English analytical reasoning question may be:
A passage,
poem or article is given and a candidate will be tested for problem solving,
critical thinking, patterns, key elements, relations, within the given data
through different questions.
A paragraph
may be like,
“Reacting to
the shocking revelation of Pandora Papers, Prime Minister Imran Khan announced
to investigate all Pakistanis involved in Pandora Papers. Taking to twitter,
the prime minister said that his government will investigate all citizens
mentioned in the Pandora Papers. “If any wrongdoing is established we will take
appropriate action. I call on the international community to treat this grave
injustice as similar to the climate change crisis,” he added. “We welcome the
Pandora Papers exposing the ill-gotten wealth of elites, accumulated through
tax evasion and corruption and laundered out to financial “havens”.
Now you may
be asked:
Q. What
evidences are provided here?
Q. What are
hidden agendas behind these types of revelations etc.
One sample
Mathematical reasoning question of may be:
Candidates
are given the series of images, graphs, patterns, sequences to take out differences,
key points, problem solving, logical conclusion, prediction etc. . It is like that.
Analytical
Math question sample:
1. 4, 6, 12,
9, 11, 22.....
What is next
number in the pattern?
Or another Mathematics analytical question will be:
In analytical
approach is the use of an appropriate process to break a problem down into the
elements necessary to solve it. Each element provides sufficient support
reaching the conclusion.