MBTI Personality Type Test

1. At a party do you: 14. Does it bother you more having things:

a. Interact with many, including strangers a. Incomplete
b. Interact with a few, known to you b. Completed

2. Are you more: 15. In your social groups do you:

a. Realistic than speculative a. Keep abreast of other’s happenings
b. Speculative than realistic b. Get behind on the news

3. Is it worse to: 16. In doing ordinary things are you more

a. Have your “head in the clouds” likely to:
b. Be “in a rut” a. Do it the usual way
b. Do it your own way
4. Are you more impressed by:
a. Principles 17. Writers should:
b. Emotions a. “Say what they mean and mean what they
say”
5. Are more drawn toward the: b. Express things more by use of analogy
a. Convincing
b. Touching 18. Which appeals to you more:
a. Consistency of thought
6. Do you prefer to work: b. Harmonious human relationships
a. To deadlines
b. Just “whenever” 19. Are you more comfortable in making:
a. Logical judgments
7. Do you tend to choose: b. Value judgments
a. Rather carefully
b. Somewhat impulsively 20. Do you want things:
a. Settled and decided
8. At parties do you: b. Unsettled and undecided
a. Stay late, with increasing energy
b. Leave early with decreased energy 21. Would you say you are more:
a. Serious and determined
9. Are you more attracted to: b. Easy-going
a. Sensible people
b. Imaginative people 22. In phoning do you:
a. Rarely question that it will all be said
10. Are you more interested in: b. Rehearse what you’ll say
a. What is actual
b. What is possible 23. Facts:
a. “Speak for themselves”
11. In judging others are you more swayed b. Illustrate principles
by:
a. Laws than circumstances 24. Are visionaries:
b. Circumstances than laws a. somewhat annoying
b. rather fascinating
12. In approaching others is your inclination
to be somewhat: 25. Are you more often:
a. Objective a. a cool-headed person
b. Personal b. a warm-hearted person

13. Are you more: 26. Is it worse to be:

a. Punctual a. unjust
b. Leisurely b. merciless
27. Should one usually let events occur:
a. by careful selection and choice
b. randomly and by chance
28. Do you feel better about:
a. having purchased
b. having the option to buy
29. In company do you:
a. initiate conversation
b. wait to be approached
30. Common sense is:
a. rarely questionable
b. frequently questionable
31. Children often do not:
a. make themselves useful enough
b. exercise their fantasy enough
32. In making decisions do you feel more
comfortable with:
a. standards
b. feelings
33. Are you more:
a. firm than gentle
b. gentle than firm
34. Which is more admirable:
a. the ability to organize and be methodical
b. the ability to adapt and make do
35. Do you put more value on:
a. infinite
b. open-minded
36. Does new and non-routine interaction
with others:
a. stimulate and energize you
b. tax your reserves
37. Are you more frequently:
a. a practical sort of person
b. a fanciful sort of person
38. Are you more likely to:
a. see how others are useful
b. see how others see
39. Which is more satisfying:
a. to discuss an issue thoroughly
b. to arrive at agreement on an issue
40. Which rules you more:
a. your head
b. your heart
41. Are you more comfortable with work that
is:
a. contracted
b. done on a casual basis
42. Do you tend to look for:
a. the orderly
b. whatever turns up
43. Do you prefer:
a. many friends with brief contact
b. a few friends with more lengthy contact
44. Do you go more by:
a. facts
b. principles
45. Are you more interested in:
a. production and distribution
b. design and research
46. Which is more of a compliment:
a. “There is a very logical person.”
b. “There is a very sentimental person.”
47. Do you value in yourself more that you
are:
a. unwavering
b. devoted
48. Do you more often prefer the
a. final and unalterable statement
b. tentative and preliminary statement
49. Are you more comfortable:
a. after a decision
b. before a decision
50. Do you:
a. speak easily and at length with strangers
b. find little to say to strangers
51. Are you more likely to trust your:
a. experience
b. hunch
52. Do you feel:
a. more practical than ingenious
b. more ingenious than practical
53. Which person is more to be complimented
– one of:
a. clear reason
b. strong feeling
54. Are you inclined more to be: 63. Are you a person that is more:
a. fair-minded a. routinized than whimsical
b. sympathetic b. whimsical than routinized

55. Is it preferable mostly to: 64. Are you more inclined to be:
a. make sure things are arranged a. easy to approach
b. just let things happen b. somewhat reserved

56. In relationships should most things be: 65. In writings do you prefer:
a. re-negotiable a. the more literal
b. random and circumstantial b. the more figurative

57. When the phone rings do you: 66. Is it harder for you to:
a. hasten to get to it first a. identify with others
b. hope someone else will answer b. utilize others

58. Do you prize more in yourself: 67. Which do you wish more for yourself:
a. a strong sense of reality a. clarity of reason
b. a vivid imagination b. strength of compassion

59. Are you drawn more to: 68. Which is the greater fault:
a. fundamentals a. being indiscriminate
b. overtones b. being critical

60. Which seems the greater error: 69. Do you prefer the:
a. to be too passionate a. planned event
b. to be too objective b. unplanned event

61. Do you see yourself as basically: 70. Do you tend to be more:

a. hard-headed a. deliberate than spontaneous
b. soft-hearted b. spontaneous than deliberate

62. Which situation appeals to you more:

a. the structured and scheduled
b. the unstructured and unscheduled
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E I S N T F J P

1. Copy your answers to this answer key carefully.

2. Count the number of checks in each of the A and B columns, and total at the bottom.
3. Copy the totals for Column 2 to the spaces below the totals for Column 3. Do the same for
Columns 4 and 6.
4. Add totals downwards to calculate your totals.
5. Circle the letter with this highest score. This is your type.
The 16 MBTI® Types 
 
ISTJ 
Quiet, serious, earn success by thoroughness and dependability. Practical, matter‐of‐fact, realistic, and responsible. 
Decide logically what should be done and work toward it steadily, regardless of distractions. Take pleasure in making 
everything orderly and organized – their work, their home, their life. Value traditions and loyalty. 

ISFJ 
Quiet, friendly, responsible, and conscientious. Committed and steady in meeting their obligations. Thorough, 
painstaking, and accurate. Loyal, considerate, notice and remember specifics about people who are important to 
them, concerned with how others feel. Strive to create an orderly and harmonious environment at work and at home.

INFJ 
Seek meaning and connection in ideas, relationships, and material possessions. Want to understand what motivates 
people and are insightful about others. Conscientious and committed to their firm values. Develop a clear vision about 
how best to serve the common good. Organized and decisive in implementing their vision. 

INTJ 
Have original minds and great drive for implementing their ideas and achieving their goals. Quickly see patterns in 
external events and develop long‐range explanatory perspectives. When committed, organize a job and carry it 
through. Skeptical and independent, have high standards of competence and performance – for themselves and 
others. 

ISTP 
  Tolerant and flexible, quiet observers until a problem appears, then act quickly to find workable solutions. Analyze 
what makes things work and readily get through large amounts of data to isolate the core of practical problems. 
Interested in cause and effect, organize facts using logical principles, value efficiency. 

ISFP 
Quiet, friendly, sensitive, and kind. Enjoy the present moment, what’s going on around them. Like to have their own 
space and to work within their own time frame. Loyal and committed to their values and to people who are important 
to them. Dislike disagreements and conflicts, do not force their opinions or values on others. 

INFP 
Idealistic, loyal to their values and to people who are important to them. Want an external life that is congruent with 
their values. Curious, quick to see possibilities, can be catalysts for implementing ideas. Seek to understand people and 
to help them fulfill their potential. Adaptable, flexible, and accepting unless a value is threatened. 

INTP 
Seek to develop logical explanations for everything that interests them. Theoretical and abstract, interested more in 
ideas than in social interaction. Quiet, contained, flexible, and adaptable. Have unusual ability to focus in depth to 
solve problems in their area of interest. Skeptical, sometimes critical, always analytical. 

ESTP 
Flexible and tolerant, they take a pragmatic approach focused on immediate results. Theories and conceptual 
explanations bore them – they want to act energetically to solve the problem. Focus on the here‐and‐now, 
spontaneous, enjoy each moment that they can be active with others. Enjoy material comforts and style. Learn best 
through doing. 

ESFP 
Outgoing, friendly, and accepting. Exuberant lovers of life, people, and material comforts. Enjoy working with others to 
make things happen. Bring common sense and a realistic approach to their work, and make work fun. Flexible and 
spontaneous, adapt readily to new people and environments. Learn best by trying a new skill with other people. 

ENFP 
Warmly enthusiastic and imaginative. See life as full of possibilities. Make connections between events and 
information very quickly, and confidently proceed based on the patterns they see. Want a lot of affirmation from 
others, and readily give appreciation and support. Spontaneous and flexible, often rely on their ability to improvise 
and their verbal fluency. 

ENTP 
Quick, ingenious, stimulating, alert, and outspoken. Resourceful in solving new and challenging problems. Adept at 
generating conceptual possibilities and then analyzing them strategically. Good at reading other people. Bored by 
routine, will seldom do the same thing the same way, apt to turn to one new interest after another. 

ESTJ 
Practical, realistic, matter‐of‐fact. Decisive, quickly move to implement decisions. Organize projects and people to get 
things done, focus on getting results in the most efficient way possible. Take care of routine details. Have a clear set of 
logical standards, systematically follow them and want others to also. Forceful in implementing their plans. 

ESFJ 
Warmhearted, conscientious, and cooperative. Want harmony in their environment, work with determination to 
establish it. Like to work with others to complete tasks accurately and on time. Loyal, follow through even in small 
matters. Notice what others need in their day‐by‐day lives and try to provide it. Want to be appreciated for who they 
are and for what they contribute. 

ENFJ 
Warm, empathetic, responsive, and responsible. Highly attuned to the emotions, needs, and motivations of others. 
Find potential in everyone, want to help others fulfill their potential. May act as catalysts for individual and group 
growth. Loyal, responsive to praise and criticism. Sociable, facilitate others in a group, and provide inspiring 
leadership. 

ENTJ 
Frank, decisive, assume leadership readily. Quickly see illogical and inefficient procedures and policies, develop and 
implement comprehensive systems to solve organizational problems. Enjoy long‐term planning and goal setting. 
Usually well informed, well read, enjoy expanding their knowledge and passing it on to others. Forceful in presenting 
their ideas. 
 

From: The Myers‐Briggs Foundation: http://www.myersbriggs.org/my‐mbti‐personality‐type/mbti‐
basics/the‐16‐mbti‐types.asp 
   
Interpreting the MBTI questionnaire 

Which is your most natural energy orientation?

Every person has two faces. One is directed towards the OUTER world of activities, excitements,
people, and things. The other is directed inward to the INNER world of thoughts, interests, ideas, and
imagination.

While these are two different but complementary sides of our nature, most people have an innate
preference towards energy from either the OUTER or the INNER world. Thus one of their faces, either
the Extraverted (E) or Introverted (I), takes the lead in their personality development and plays a
more dominant role in their behavior.

Extraverted Characteristics Introverted Characteristics

 Act first, think/reflect later  Think/reflect first, then Act

 Feel deprived when cutoff from
interaction with the outside world
 Usually open to and motivated by outside
world of people and things
 Enjoy wide variety and change in people
relationships
 Regularly require an amount of "private
time" to recharge batteries
 Motivated internally, mind is sometimes
so active it is "closed" to outside world
 Prefer one-to-one communication and
relationships

Which way of Perceiving or understanding is most "automatic" or natural?

The Sensing (S) side of our brain notices the sights, sounds, smells and all the sensory details of the
PRESENT. It categorizes, organizes, records and stores the specifics from the here and now. It is
REALITY based, dealing with "what is." It also provides the specific details of memory & recollections
from PAST events.

The Intuitive (N) side of our brain seeks to understand, interpret and form OVERALL patterns of all
the information that is collected and records these patterns and relationships. It speculates on
POSSIBILITIES, including looking into and forecasting the FUTURE. It is imaginative and
conceptual.

While both kinds of perceiving are necessary and used by all people, each of us instinctively tends to
favor one over the other.

Sensing Characteristics Intuitive Characteristics

 Mentally live in the Now, attending to
present opportunities
 Using common sense and creating
practical solutions is automatic-instinctual
 Memory recall is rich in detail of facts and
past events
 Best improvise from past experience
 Like clear and concrete information;
dislike guessing when facts are "fuzzy"
 Mentally live in the Future, attending to
future possibilities
 Using imagination and creating/inventing
new possibilities is automatic-instinctual
 Memory recall emphasizes patterns,
contexts, and connections
 Best improvise from theoretical
understanding
 Comfortable with ambiguous, fuzzy data
and with guessing its meaning.

Which way of forming Judgments and making choices is most natural?

The Thinking (T) side of our brain analyzes information in a DETACHED, objective fashion. It
operates from factual principles, deduces and forms conclusions systematically. It is our logical nature.

The Feeling (F) side of our brain forms conclusions in an ATTACHED and somewhat global manner,
 based on likes/dislikes, impact on others, and human and aesthetic values. It is our subjective nature.

While everyone uses both means of forming conclusions, each person has a natural bias towards one
over the other so that when they give us conflicting directions - one side is the natural trump card or
tiebreaker.

Thinking Characteristics Feeling Characteristics

 Instinctively search for facts and logic in
a decision situation.
 Naturally notices tasks and work to be
accomplished.
 Easily able to provide an objective and
critical analysis.
 Accept conflict as a natural, normal part
of relationships with people.
 Instinctively employ personal feelings
and impact on people in decision
situations
 Naturally sensitive to people needs and
reactions.
 Naturally seek consensus and popular
opinions.
 Unsettled by conflict; have almost a toxic
reaction to disharmony.

Q4. What is your "action orientation" towards the outside world?

All people use both judging (thinking and feeling) and perceiving (sensing and intuition) processes to
store information, organize our thoughts, make decisions, take actions and manage our lives. Yet one
of these processes (Judging or Perceiving) tends to take the lead in our relationship with the outside
world . . . while the other governs our inner world.

A Judging (J) style approaches the outside world WITH A PLAN and is oriented towards organizing
one's surroundings, being prepared, making decisions and reaching closure and completion.

A Perceiving (P) style takes the outside world AS IT COMES and is adopting and adapting, flexible,
open-ended and receptive to new opportunities and changing game plans.

Judging Characteristics Perceiving Characteristics

 Plan many of the details in advance before
moving into action.
 Focus on task-related action; complete
meaningful segments before moving on.
 Work best and avoid stress when able to
keep ahead of deadlines.
 Naturally use targets, dates and standard
routines to manage life.
 Comfortable moving into action without a
plan; plan on-the-go.
 Like to multitask, have variety, mix work
and play.
 Naturally tolerant of time pressure; work
best close to the deadlines.
 Instinctively avoid commitments which
interfere with flexibility, freedom and
variety

Extracted from Personality Pathways 
http://www.personalitypathways.com/type_inventory.html