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APTITUDE
APTITUDE
TYPES:
1. Manual aptitude: It indicates motor abilities or skills required for semi-
skilled occupations.
2. Mechanical aptitude: It involves the ability to understand and solve
problems involving mechanical relationships and arrangements such as
those, which occurs in the adjustment, repair and assembly of machinery.
3. Clerical aptitude: This aptitude involves different abilities like
perceptual, intellectual, mental skills and motor skills.
4. Other types of aptitude: Musical, graphic, scholastic/professional
aptitudes.
5. Different types of aptitude that are testable include:
General learning ability
Verbal aptitude
Numerical aptitude
Inductive reasoning aptitude, also called differentiation or inductive
learning ability.
Finger dexterity aptitude
Number series aptitude
Language learning
Mechanical comprehension
Symbolic reasoning aptitude
Visual memory also called analytical reasoning.
Visual pursuit, also called line tracing.