2 hand coordination psychometric

[ajc1988]

hi

just a quick question for anyone who has done psychometric and the 2 hand coordination one on the computer.

were you told before you started it that the joysticks could come off or not?

i was told when i did mine to be careful as they could come off but a friend has been failed because it came off twice on them and they were not told before hand.

thanks

 

[glasgowceltic1]

I was not told beforehand when I did mine.

 

[Terry844]

I wasn’t told, but then what on earth was they doing with them to pull them off. You only moving them from side to side or back and forward to move a dot around a maze.

 

[CardiffDan]

I wasn't told. However I did feel the movement slightly. At one point I had to stop and hold them still whilst I pushed them down.

Someone on here had them come off and had to stick them back on mid test. They passed.

 

[gshock]

I wasn't told the first time that I did the psychometric day (late last year) and they came off... I failed... but not because of that. I blew it and rushed. My fault completely. No excuses.

Two weeks ago I WAS told... and I passed. But I went at a more appropriate pace.

They do actually come off really easily. Probably part of the whole assessment process (purposefully). It is all there to test you and see how you fare.

 

[NorthernTech]

I wasn’t told, but then what on earth was they doing with them to pull them off. You only moving them from side to side or back and forward to move a dot around a maze.

Just what I was going to say. I’ve done the test twice and they are an easy light touch either left-right or up-down. If you are pulling at them maybe you didn’t listen to the instructions which you had practice time also for.

 

[6opher]

If I remember correctly they had a thin plastic type cover/tube that goes over the shaft? I just held the top of the sticks and had no issues whatsoever. I remember someone on same assessment day panicking because the tube came off but that person still passed. We weren’t told they could come apart but to be honest, everyone had time to practice and get the feel for the test so there’s no excuses if you ask me.

 

[Wave01]

I wasnt told when I did mine however soMebody else told me that the plates that are at the base of the sticks do come loose. Essentially the 2 joysticks can move in all directions but the base plates have horizontal and vertical gaps in them so that u can only move the sticks up/down and left/right

 

[klkl]

The hardware I took the test on you would have had to supply significantly more force than necessary or hold them in an inappropriate way for the controls to come loose.

There is practice time which should have made hardware deficits obvious to the user.

It’s not really worth speculating but reading comments like this does make me think that people semi regularly hold the joysticks in an unnatural (for me) way or do not use the practice time wisely.

 

[Treas]

I wasn’t told, but they only required the lightest touch to move so they didn’t require much grip and I assumed they’d be pretty fragile.

 

[NorthernTech]

It’s not that they are fragile, it’s designed to show your hand and eye coordination skills, not a test of strength or brute force. The joysticks have very light movement and just require a small light touch to move, the rest is down to your ability to coordinate the movement around the track. You have time to practice as well as ask questions. Your practice time, if used wisely, will let you get the feel and control of it. Not too dissimilar to getting in a hire car or van and quickly having to get used to the ’feel’ of the clutch, brakes, accelerator while also judging the road ahead. I have passed it twice, I never once had a thought that anything was loose, no one else at either test centre said theirs were loose, and the examiner never said anything either.

 

[Treas]

Yeah I agree with everything there, it was pretty obvious from the start of the test they didn’t require much input. I just meant they felt like any unnecessary force could break them.

 

[NorthernTech]

I think when you have played some console games, call of duty types, or ones where you manoeuvre a character through a 3D world, you possibly get used to the touch related to movement. Up, down, left, right, forward, backwards etc. Usually not an aggressive movement required, possibly why I never gave it a second thought, and possibly worried that it was another test I needed to pass or go home. Seemed less worrying once it was done, beforehand I was slightly concerned