What does the written test include?

What does the written test include? Compared with the interview, the written test is a relatively primary selection method. Some companies take the written test as the first round of selection before the interview. If they fail, they can't proceed to the next step. Let's share what the written test includes.

What does the written test include? 1 written test generally includes the following aspects:

First, the assessment of knowledge, mainly some general basic knowledge and business knowledge needed for a certain position.

The second is intelligence test, which mainly tests graduates' memory, analytical observation ability, comprehensive induction ability, thinking response ability and learning ability of new knowledge.

The third is skill test, which mainly aims at the speed and quality of employees' handling problems and tests their degree and ability to use knowledge and intelligence.

Fourthly, personality test, mainly through some well-designed psychological test questions or some open questions to examine the personality characteristics of job seekers.

Types of written tests

The written test is divided into the following two categories according to the content:

1, technical written test This kind of written test is mainly aimed at the application of R&D and technical positions. This kind of position is characterized by higher requirements for mastering relevant professional knowledge, and the topics are mainly technical problems related to work needs, which are highly professional. The results of this kind of examination are closely related to the students' academic performance in four years of college. Therefore, a solid professional foundation is needed to successfully cope with such exams. General large companies, such as ibm, Microsoft and Oracle Bone Inscriptions, are recruiting R&; D will write like this. For example, the written tests arranged by Microsoft Institute of Engineering in 2004 are all about C and c++ languages, which requires very high programming experience for candidates. After the final written test, 90% of the candidates were eliminated, which shows the importance of written test to technical posts. For undergraduates, professional written examination mainly examines basic knowledge and skills, rather than advanced knowledge, and is generally a professional basic course. Such as circuit analysis, analog circuits, accounting, finance and so on. Zhang Da, mentioned many times in this book, said when talking about his last interview with China Mobile: "At that time, the content of the interview was mainly technical issues, which I had never heard of. As a result, I can only talk about my views in combination with my own knowledge. The result is over. I guess they just want to see if I have the common sense to apply for a programming position. " For this kind of technical post, the emphasis of written test content between big companies and small companies is very different. Generally, small companies pay attention to practicality, and the exams are more detailed in order to use them. Large companies emphasize the foundation and potential, so they will take more extensive tests, most of which are intelligence tests, emotional tests and personality tendency tests. For example, Motorola's written test content is mainly non-technical, with many English reading and intelligence tests. For the written test of large companies, it is recommended to look at the textbook of civil service examination. There are many IQ questions and comprehensive questions, which is very helpful for the written test of large companies.

2. Non-technical written tests are generally common, and the requirements for candidates' professional background are relatively loose. The content of non-technical written test is quite extensive. In addition to the common English reading and writing skills, logical thinking skills and mathematical analysis skills, it sometimes involves current affairs and politics, common sense of life, situational interpretation and even IQ tests. Let's make a detailed introduction and analysis. English written test is a non-technical written test, which accounts for the largest proportion of all written tests. The focus of its investigation is mainly on reading comprehension and writing ability, that is, expression ability. Let's use KPMG's written test as an example to illustrate. KPMG's written test is a typical English written test, which is mainly divided into two parts. The first part is oral English and reading comprehension. This is different from our usual reading comprehension of CET-4 and CET-6. On the one hand, it is closer to the expression habit of business English, and the clarity and standardization of meaning expression is the most important feature, so it does not emphasize the complexity of sentence patterns and the diversity of rhetoric; On the other hand, it pays attention to the investigation of logical thinking ability, so it is very important to grasp the internal meaning of the text through the surface. The second part is numerical value and mathematics. KPMG's written test questions are in Chinese, which is relatively less difficult, but I have also done a lot of English, such as Jones Lang LaSalle. The focus of this part is not your mathematical operation ability, so it has not risen to the difficulty of advanced mathematics, so whether you have studied calculus and derivative operation will not affect your play in this part. Similar to reading, the content of mathematics is mainly business English, so he pays attention to the ability to obtain useful information from figures and charts. For such a written English test, there is also a very important inspection point, that is, speed. Perhaps, given a day's time, most people can be close, but the problem is only one hour. According to my rough statistics, the number of people who can finish such an examination question within the specified time (note that they have finished it, not painted the answer sheet) does not exceed 10%. For KPMG, the elimination rate in this round is as high as 85%. There is also a very important form of English written test, which is the investigation of English writing. Some companies combine the above-mentioned English reading test and writing test, while others focus on English writing ability.

What does the written test include? 2 How to prepare for the written test

The written test itself is a kind of ability test, and the elimination rate is high, so it is not realistic to improve the test-taking ability of the written test through short-term assault. Whether it is English written expression ability, logical thinking ability, problem analysis ability, or understanding and mastering knowledge field, it is a long-term practice and accumulation, which can not be achieved overnight. So my description below is based on your relatively sufficient preparation time. If you are told today that you will take the written test tomorrow, I think even if you do all the following, your written test ability will not be improved obviously. However, for those job seekers who are cramming, they can read books around the job description before the written test, or go to bbs to see what they have taken before, or what they have taken in the recruitment in recent days, pay attention to what the skills appear above, and then imagine what the knowledge background involved in this skill is.

English reading and writing preparation

1) Cultivating a sense of language through reading First of all, it is very important for English reading to cultivate a sense of language in written language. Because most written English and business English are similar in expression habits, skills and contents, it is a good way to cultivate a sense of language by reading a certain amount of business English, and then get familiar with the reading comprehension of written English. You can get these materials by selectively reading business English newspapers or websites.

2) Reading is combined with analysis and understanding. Secondly, written English is not a novel. Even after reading it, it is very important to understand the content of the article. It is impossible to make several judgments on the materials you usually dabble in. Therefore, when reading these articles, I suggest that you consciously stop and think about what it said, how to organize the views and arguments of the article, and whether you have any difficulty in understanding when reading, because of insufficient vocabulary or insufficient ability to grasp the meaning. When you can do such a simple review every time, your reading ability will improve faster.

3) Writing by hand For English writing, reading alone can't solve the problem. Of course, writing practice should be based on certain reading, because you can learn the author's expression skills and ideas and methods of analyzing problems through reading, but more importantly, your own practice. No matter how much you read, if you don't write and practice, the improvement of your own writing ability is still limited. Reading and writing are two complementary processes. Good reading can guide your writing, and the accumulation of writing also requires you to have appropriate reading. Here I have a little personal experience to share with you. How to test the improvement of your reading ability? The standard for reading ability to reach a certain level is that you can distinguish "good" articles from "bad" articles. We all have reading chinese's ability. Good articles and bad articles are clear at a glance. When you are equally sensitive to English articles, when you can clearly feel that good articles are clear in structure, strict in logic, perfect in expression and rigorous, your reading ability can meet the requirements of written English reading.

4) Simulated actual combat training If you really want to do some actual combat training, there are some network resources available. For example, there is a Hong Kong company called shl, which specializes in writing written English papers to find jobs. Many famous companies, such as KPMG and Hang Seng Bank, adopt shl test questions. Shl has an official website, where you can do some simple simulation training through free registration. For another example, the Hong Kong Productivity Council also provides written test questions for many companies, although these contents are not much on the Internet.

2. Preparation of technical written test

For this kind of technical written test, first of all, we should read relevant materials in combination with specific positions before the test, understand the contents of the written test, and be aware of it. Secondly, we should understand the key points of the written test and review them carefully. There are one or two concept courses in each subject, so read more textbooks in this field before the written test. If you have really studied before, you should have notes or your own review outline. Look at the most important and emphasized in the book at that time, don't read it too carefully. For example, if the position requires you to know c++, then you should use it to familiarize yourself with the basic knowledge points before the written test. There are also applications such as programming location, data structure and algorithm. Especially data structure. For example, our team members read some communication knowledge before the written test of Beijing Mobile: "At that time, there was a written test of mobile communication technology after the interview, and they took a lot of basic knowledge of mobile communication, such as channel utilization, coding, cross-regional and handover. Fortunately, I read the handout of the mobile communication course before. " In addition, it is also important to maintain a stable mentality. We should objectively and calmly evaluate ourselves correctly, believe in our own strength, overcome inferiority and enhance our self-confidence.

Step 3 prepare for other written tests

In addition to English reading and writing and technical written tests, other types of written tests are also mentioned in the above article. Generally speaking, there are not many ways to prepare for the exam in mathematical analysis, logical reasoning and language expression ability, and the targeted preparation effect is not necessarily particularly good. However, on the whole, most candidates do well in this part. The reason is that although different candidates have different professional backgrounds, each subject needs basic analytical ability and logical thinking ability, and everyone will practice and expand this ability consciously or unconsciously in their usual study. So, although you haven't seen the topic of the written test, the essence of its investigation is the same, except that the topic of the written test is expressed in another form that you are not familiar with.

For topics similar to the field of knowledge. Let's discuss it in different situations.

The first one only involves the cognitive level. You don't need to fully understand it, but you can't help but know it. Take the above example as an example. Johnson & Johnson (China) is mainly engaged in medicine and medical devices. The written test questions contain information about manned space flight and the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. However, it only requires that you know and have heard of it. I believe that as a college student, if you have never heard of these basic current events, it is somewhat unreasonable. Therefore, the written test of these contents is not so much to examine the knowledge itself as to examine your ability to pay attention to the surrounding information.

The second involves the level of understanding and application. It not only requires you to know that there is such a thing, but also hopes that you can give some understanding and opinions on this issue, and the premise of giving your personal understanding and opinions is that you have a relatively complete and clear understanding of this issue. For example, cepa (Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement between the Mainland and Hong Kong) should be fully understood by all students majoring in humanities and social sciences, especially economic management, because it is a very important event in 2003 and will have a long-term impact in many fields. Similarly, the success of manned space flight. It is particularly easy to combine English writing with knowledge field investigation involving understanding and application. Above, we mentioned the written test topics of PricewaterhouseCoopers and Dragonair, both of which reflected the double inspection of current affairs content and writing ability. For this kind of problem, understanding the topic you want to discuss is the premise of your successful writing and the basis of your elaboration. In such a written test, it is particularly important for you to accumulate these contents at ordinary times.