Day 36 – Q 3.Can aptitude of a person be assessed? What tools can be used to do it? Discuss.
3. Can aptitude of a person be assessed? What tools can be used to do it? Discuss.
क्या किसी व्यक्ति की योग्यता का आकलन किया जा सकता है? इसे करने के लिए कौन से उपकरण का उपयोग किया जा सकता है? चर्चा करें।
Introduction:
Aptitude is a component of competency to do a certain kind of work at a certain level, which can also be considered talent. It is basically the ability to deal with aspects of environment and the natural ability to acquire skill in some specific field.
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Aptitude of a person can be assessed as we often judge our peers with the potential they have. Few might be good at Mathematics (we tend to call them Ramanujan) and few at Science (we tend to call them Einstein) and so on. Hence we know the potential that they have in their field of Specialization.
Even when we speak about leadership qualities in cricket, the names that we arrive at are Sourav Ganguly, MS Dhoni in common. Though there are many great Batsmen’s and Bowlers, Still when it is about captaincy and leadership in tackling difficult situation the mentioned names take the lead.
Even while dealing with Technology related crimes, Police Department generally prefer young officers, as they are technologically advanced. So, this is indicative of the fact that we are able to assess the aptitude of an individual.
We assess the aptitude of an individual with the help of tools like general observation and few selected tests.
Assessment using General Observation:
- Human Relations– A Civil servant meets hundreds of individual every day. Most of them are poor, belong to vulnerable section of people. The way civil servant deals with different section of people in a way that helps him understand the situation from people’s perspective is most important. Hence, his subordinates and fellow citizens can assess the Aptitude of the individual.
- Use of Technology– Aptitude of an individual can also be assessed by the ease with which the individual uses the Latest Technology. For example- The role played by police officers in dealing with cybercrime.
- Problem solving ability– Challenges are part of everyone’s life, few face it and few manage to escape. The way problems have been tackled (effectively and efficiently) is indicative of aptitude of an Individual.
Assessment using tests:The tests are in two forms: Independent (Specialized) and Multiple (Generalized) Aptitude Tests.
Independent tests include:
- Numerical Aptitude tests- basically all the competitive exams such as CAT, CDS, AFCAT etc tests the numerical solving capacity of an individual.
- Engineering Aptitude tests (Includes fields such as mechanical, electrical, electronics and so on)-Exams such as GATE, IES etc.
- Typing Aptitude- selections for few government and private jobs have fast typing as selection criteria.
There can be many other independent specialized tests in line with above mentioned tests.
Multiple Aptitude tests:
These are combination of independent tests as shown above. One important such assessment that we can cite here would be the Service Selection Board(SSB) for Armed Forces, where numerical aptitude, Verbal Aptitude, Physical Strength, Ability to lead group of individual etc are assessed.
Conclusion
For any individual to succeed in his/her domain, one is required to have some innate potential to learn, understand and acquire a few skills.
