OASIS 2 - Aptitude

Interpretation
Range of Aptitude Percentile

67% - 99% - High

34% - 66% - Average

1% - 33% - Low
 G – General Ability
The ability to learn and achieve in training or
academic situations. People who get high
scores “catch on” quickly in new situations
and are proficient in making judgments, and
in grasping underlying principles and solving
problems. This factor is measured by the
Vocabulary subtest plus the Computation
subtest scores.
 V – Verbal
Aptitude
The ability to understand and
see words effectively, to
comprehend verbal concepts
and language, and to express
ideas clearly in words. People
who score highly generally do
well in school, particularly in
subjects where verbal concepts
are important. This factor is
measured by the Vocabulary
subtest.
 N – Numerical Aptitude
The ability to do arithmetic and other numerical
computations quickly and accurately. People
who score highly on N may do well in such
school subjects as math and physics. This
factor is measured by the Computation subtest.
S – Spatial Aptitude
The ability to visualize two
dimensional objects in
three-dimensional space,
and to mentally manipulate
objects through different
spatial orientations. People
who get high scores have
the aptitude to perform well
in school subjects and
work involving drafting, art,
architecture, clothes
designing, and similar
tasks. This factor is
measure by the Spatial
Relations subtest.
 P – Perceptual Aptitude
The ability to compare and discriminate words, numbers,
symbols, or other graphic material to see if slight differences
exist between them. people who score high in this area should
do well in proofreading, copyediting, and in nonverbal tasks that
require attention to detail and rapid visual discriminations. This
factor is measured by the Word Comparison subtest.
 M – Manual Dexterity
The ability to concentrate eye and hand
movements and perform manual task rapidly and
accurately. High scores indicate the ability to
manipulate tools and objects with speed and
precision. This factor is measured by the Making
Marks subtest.
OASIS 2 -Interest
Schedule
Range of Interest Percentile

67% - 99% - High Interest

34% - 66% - Average Interest

1% - 33% -Low interest

With confused test result
Artistic (ART)
This scale measures your
interest in the creative
expression of ideas and
feelings. This interest may
be satisfied by a variety of
activities and including
writing or editing;
performing in music,
drama, or dance; painting
or sculpture; or modeling
clothes.
 Scientific (SCI)
A high score in this area indicates an
interest in doing scientific research
and developing theories and
scientific applications. The interest
may be satisfied by working with
scientific equipment in a laboratory;
by exploring new medical
treatments to improve the health of
humans and animals; by developing
new knowledge in mathematics or
physics; or by discovering new facts
about the earth and universe.
Nature (NAT)
This scale measures your
interest in working with
plants and animals in an
outdoor setting. You may
satisfy this interest by
working in farming,
forestry, and fishing. You
may enjoy physical work
outdoors or may enjoy
managing a farm or
related businesses and
services.
 Protective (Pro)
High scores in this area suggest an
interest in using legal authority to protect
both people and property. People with
high scores may enjoy work in law
enforcement, fire fighting, or in leadership
and management positions in protective
service organizations.
Mechanical (MEC). A high score on this scale
indicates an interest in applying mechanical principles to
practical situations involving the use of tools and machines.
Jobs that satisfy this interest include engineering and related
technical-scientific work, operating and maintaining
mechanical equipment in a factory or laboratory, operating
land or water vehicles, flying airplanes, or building and
repairing things on a large or small scale.
 Industrial (IND)
This scale measures your interest in repetitive, regular work
activities in a factory setting. Jobs that satisfy this interest
including inspecting, sorting, and weighing manufacture
goods. Machine setup and operation or supervision of other
workers might also be enjoyed.
 Business Details (BUS)
A high score in this area suggests that you
may enjoy office work. This interest may
be satisfied by work as an office manager,
bookkeeper, receptionist, secretary, or by
a variety of related jobs.
Selling (SEL) High scores on this scale
indicate an interest in providing information about a
product and persuading others of its value and
desirability. Jobs that satisfy this interest involve
selling products or services in stores, offices, or
customers’ homes.
 Accommodating (ACC) This scale
measures your interest in providing services for the
convenience and comfort of others. Hospitality
services in airplanes, restaurants, and hotels, or hair
and beauty care are examples of work that may
satisfy this interest.
 Humanitarian (HUM)
A high score on this scale indicates an interest in
helping people with problems of a physical, social,
emotional, or religious nature. A job in counseling,
nursing, physical therapy, or rehabilitation may
satisfy an interest in this area.
Leading-Influencing (LEA)
This scale measures your interest in leading and
influencing others by using verbal and numerical
abilities. Jobs that may satisfy this interest include
jobs in administration, finance, law, education, social
research, or public relations.
 Physical Performing (PHY)
High scores in this area show an interest in
performing physical activities before an audience. A
job in professional sports as a player or official, or
performing physical feats such as acrobatics, may
satisfy this interest.
OTIS-LENNON SCHOOL ABILITY
TEST INTERPRETATION
 Otis-Lennon School Ability Test
(OLSAT)
is designed to measure those verbal,
and figural reasoning skills that are
most closely
related to scholastic achievement.
 OLSAT Stanine
Stanine
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
9 – intellectually
superior
7 – 9 - above average
8 – 4high
- 6 – average
7 – 1above average
- 3 – below average
4-6 – average
3 – below average
2 – low
1 – very low
16 Personality
Factors
 16 Personality Factors
Sten Score

Sten Score 1, 2, 9, 10 - Marked Traits

3, 4, 7, 8 - Tendencies

5, 6 - Average
 Factor A (Warmth): Warm vs. Reserved
Reserved Warm
❖ They are more cautious in ❖ They enjoy people who show
involvement and attachment their emotion openly

❖ They rather be an architect ❖ Prefer working in a busy office

than a counselor or nurse, rather than in a quiet room
teacher, etc.
❖ Their friends describe them as
❖ Prefer to work alone in a quiet warm and comforting
environment
❖ Comfortable in situations that
❖ They are uncomfortable taking call for closeness
about or showing feelings of
affection or caring
Factor B (Reasoning): Abstract vs. Concrete
Reasoning is not included in personality trait, it is included in
the 16 PF because cognitive style moderate the expression of
many personality traits
Concrete Abstract
❖Prefers detail explanation, doesn’t
want to miss the important part of ❖Tends to feel bored
discussion /topic with details

❖May be anxious or preoccupied with ❖Solve more of

their troubles reasoning problems

❖Distracted by environment

❖For various reasons, not motivated to

spend the time figuring out the
correct answer
 Factor C (Emotional Stability) :
Emotionally Stable vs. Reactive
Reactive Emotionally Stable
❖Feel a certain lack of control ❖Take life in stride and manage
over life events and emotions in a
balanced, adaptive way
❖Easily affected by feelings ❖Not easily affected by feelings

❖More ups and downs in ❖They usually go to bed at night feeling

mood than most people satisfied with their day
❖They recover from upsets quickly
❖Their emotional needs are ❖Willing to take on challenging tasks, has
not satisfied energy to remain focused on those tasks
when presented with obstacles.
❖Put grudges, hard to forgive
and forget ❖Cope with pressure, has positive attitude
in stressful situations or following failure.
 Factor E (Dominance): Dominant vs. Deferential
This factor involve the tendency to exert one will
over others vs. accommodating other’s wishes
Deferential, Cooperative Dominant
❖Tend to be forceful, vocal in
❖ Avoid conflict by expressing wishes and
complying/accepting other’s opinions
wishes ❖ They feel free to criticize
others and try to control
❖ Self-effacing and willing to set other’s behavior.
aside personal wishes and ❖Extreme dominance can
feelings alienate /isolate people who
do not wish to
❖Humble, accommodating, subjugated/dominated
give way to others ❖Law to himself, authoritarian
and tends to disregards authority
 Factor F (Liveliness): Lively vs. Serious

Serious Lively
❖ Take life more seriously ❖ Like being in the middle of
excitement and activity
❖ Quiet, more cautious and less
playful ❖ Fun-loving, dress in an eye-
catching, stylish way than
❖ Inhibit their spontaneity neatly and quietly
(being natural), appears to be
constricted/rigid ❖ Enjoy spending time talking
with friends about social
❖ Can be perceived as mature events

❖ Not fun-loving or entertaining ❖ Enjoy attending party than

humor on television
❖ Prefer working in a quiet
environment
Factor G (Rule-consciousness): Rule Conscious
vs. Expedient
This factor addresses the extent to which cultural standards of right and
wrong are internalized and used to govern behavior

Expedient Rule-Conscious
❖Expedient, nonconforming ❖Tend to perceive themselves
as strict followers of rules,
❖ Unsteady in purpose principles and manner

❖ Freedom from group ❖Follow rules regardless of

influence may lead to anti- how they feel
social acts.
❖Exacting in character,
dominated by sense of duty
 Factor H (Social Boldness):
Socially Bold vs. Shy
Shy Socially Bold
❖ Socially timid, cautious and ❖ Consider themselves as bold
shy and adventurous in social
❖ Find difficulty in speaking in group
front of the group ❖ Show little fear in social
❖ Lack of self-esteem situation, sociable, ready to
❖ Find difficulty in talking with try new thing
strangers, refrain from ❖ They are not shy in the face
meeting people of new social setting
❖ Feel embarrassed if they ❖ Start conversation even with
suddenly become the center strangers
of attention in a social ❖ Feel to immediately fit into
group. new group
 Factor I Sensitivity:(Sensitive vs. Utilitarian)
Utilitarian Sensitive, Sentimental
⮚ Concerned with utility and ⮚ Focused on the subjective
objectivity aspects of situations that they
⮚ Attending more to how things overlook functional aspects.
operate or work ⮚ Rely on sympathy and
⮚ May exclude people’s feelings sensitivity in their
from consideration considerations.
⮚ No “string attach” principle ⮚ Put meaning on little things
⮚ May have trouble dealing with ⮚ Based their judgment on their
situations that demands personal tastes and aesthetic
sensitivity values.
⮚ Stereotyping that man are more
utilitarian than women
 Factor L (Vigilance): Vigilant vs. Trusting
This factor relates to the tendency to trust versus being vigilant about
others’ motives and intentions.

Trusting Vigilant, suspicious,

sceptical (doubtful)
⮚Expect fair treatment, loyalty ⮚ Misunderstood or taken
and good intentions from advantage of
others.
⮚ Experience themselves as
⮚Tends to be related to sense of separate from other people
well-being and satisfactory
relationships ⮚ Unable to relax, may
experience fears
⮚Extreme score may be taken ⮚ Mistrust may have
advantage of because they feature/portion of animosity
don’t give enough thought to (hatred, hostility, ill feeling)
others’ motivations.
Factor M (Abstracted): Imaginative vs. Grounded
Grounded, Practical, Solution Abstracted, Imaginative,
Oriented Idea-oriented
❖ Focus on their senses, observable
data and the outer realities of their ❖Often leads to plentiful of
environment in forming their ideas without considering
perceptions. practical realities.
❖ Focus more on the environment
and its demand. ❖More oriented on internal
❖ Think in a practical and down-to- mental processes and
earth manner. ideas rather than
❖ May not be able to generate practicalities
possible solutions to problems.
❖ Extremely grounded people may be ❖They always think of the
so overly concrete or literal that best possible solution to
they miss the important part of the the problems.
situation
Factor N (Privateness): Private vs. Forthright
Forthright Private, Non-disclosing

❖ Personally open ❖ Private, secretive

❖ They talk about their feelings ❖ Personally guarded, maintain
readily and give more than their privacy at the expense of
minimal responses to personal developing close relationship
questions ❖ Tend to keep problems to
❖ Put all their cards on the table themselves rather than
❖ Talk about themselves readily discussing them with friends.
❖ Genuine, self-revealing ❖ Have difficulty talking about
❖ Extreme score may not be of personal matters and that
their advantage people find them hard to get
close to.
❖ This may reflect disinterest in
or fear of closeness
 Factor O ( Apprehension):Apprehensive vs. Self-
Assured
Self-assured Apprehensive
⮚ More self-assured, has sense of ⮚ Worry about things and feels
adequacy insecure (this feeling may be
in response to a particular
⮚ Confident and self-satisfied life situation).

⮚ Extremely low score means his ⮚ They are sensitive and worry
confidence may be unshaken too much about things
even in situations that provide they’ve done.
opportunities for self-evaluation
and self-improvement. ⮚ They feel hurt if people
dislike them.
⮚ Has strong sense of self-
assurance
 Factor Q1 (Openness to Change): Open to Change
vs. Traditional
Traditional, attached to familiar Open to Change
❖ Prefers traditional ways of looking at ❖Think of ways to improve things and to
things enjoy experimenting.
❖ They don’t question the way things
are done. ❖They like thinking of new and better
❖ They prefer life to be predictable and ways of doing things
familiar even if life is not ideal.
❖ They feel secure and confident when ❖They find people interesting if they
they do routine work. express different viewpoints.
❖ They don’t really like people who are
“different” or unusual ❖They are bored by work that is familiar
❖ They think more trouble arises from and routine.
questioning and changing satisfactory
methods than from rejecting ❖They love to explore and find it joyful if
promising new approaches. they try new things.
 Factor Q2 (Self- Reliance): Self- Reliant
vs. Group Oriented
This factor tends to be about maintaining contact with proximity to
others.
Group Oriented Self-Reliant
⮚ Prefer to be around with ⮚ Enjoy time alone and prefer to
people and do thing with make decision for themselves.
others
⮚ They like to do their planning
⮚ May not be optimally effective alone, without interruptions or
in situations where help is suggestions from others.
unavailable or where others
are providing poor directions ⮚ May find difficulty working
or advise. with people and may also find
it hard asking help/assistance
⮚ Has difficulty in decision- from others even it is
making necessary.
 Factor Q3 (Perfectionism): Perfectionistic vs.
Tolerates Disorder
Tolerates disorder Perfectionistic
❖ Leave more things to chance and tend ❖Always want to do things right
to be more comfortable in a
disorganized setting ❖Neat and proficient
❖ Tend to be unprepared in all activities
❖ No clear motivation specially if the ❖Loves to plan ahead
activity or behavior is not important to
him ❖Highly organized, may find it hard to
❖ Flexible/adaptable/adjustable deal with unpredictability
❖ Can leave and stay in a messy room
❖ Concerned with responding well to ❖Can have positive result but not always
change. It requires a positive attitude desirable (disregards the feelings)
toward change and a readiness to
adapt when presented with new ❖Competency requires people to
information, new situations or shifting establish and prioritize tasks and
objectives in order to manage time and
resources
 Factor Q4 (Tension): Tensed vs. Relaxed
Relaxed Tensed
❖ Feel relaxed and tranquil ❖ Have a restless energy and to
be fidgety (uneasy) when
❖ Patient and slow to become made to wait.
frustrated
❖ Tension serves as their
❖ Extreme score means motivation to finish the task
unmotivated (because they are
comfortable, they may be ❖ High tension can lead to
disinclined to change or push impatience and irritability
themselves)
❖ Easily frustrated with people

❖ Get annoyed by changes in

plan
 GLOBAL
FACTORS
 Extraversion (Extraverted vs. Introverted)

Introverted Extraverted
❖ Less outgoing and ❖ People oriented
sociable
❖ Seek out relationship
❖ Spend more time in their with others
own company
❖ Lively, assertive,
forthright and has strong
need for affiliation
 Anxiety (Anxious vs. Unperturbed)

Low anxiety High anxiety

❖ Low anxiety ❖ Reactive, affected by
feelings
❖ Unperturbed (calm,
serene, ❖ Suspicious, distrustful
tranquil, composed)
❖ Worrying and tensed
❖ But unmotivated
because they are
comfortable
 Tough-Mindedness (Tough-minded vs.
Receptive)
Receptive, Tough-minded or
open-minded Tough Poise
❖ Deal problems in a cultural, ❖Tough-minded people are
refined or sensitive way reserved, practical
❖ Open to interpersonal
involvement ❖Resolute (firm), inflexible (stick
❖ Have difficulty in setting aside with the principle)
their feeling reaction to attain
objectivity ❖Have difficulty in accepting
❖ May overlook the practical new viewpoints, tends to be rigid
aspect of the situation
❖ Tends to give way
 Independence (Independent vs. Accommodating)
Accommodating Independent
❖ Respectful, polite, doesn’t ❖ Actively and forcefully determined
like arguments in his thinking and actions,
concerned with making clear,
❖ Uncomfortable or appropriate decisions
ineffective in situations that ❖ Enjoy trying new things and exhibit
call for self- intellectual curiosity
expression. ❖ Forms and express his own opinion
❖ Persuasive and wilful
❖ They value agreeableness, ❖ Willing to perform challenging tasks
kindness and ❖ Can assume a certain amount of
thoughtfulness disagreeableness
❖ May be uncomfortable or
❖ Wish to void harm ineffective in situation that involve
accommodating other people
 Self-Control
(Self-Controlled vs. Unrestrained)
Unrestrained Controlled
❖ Follows their personal ❖ Inhibits urges and
urges impulses
❖ Doesn’t care about
the perception of ❖ Rule conscious
others
❖ Concerned with what
❖ Enjoy doing things people may say
based on how they
see it