Right Choice Product Brief-19oct07

Right Choice (Vocational Guidance Programme) A vocational guidance program helps a student to identify his aptitude, interest and personality characteristics. It consists of a series of tests whose result indicates a student’s strength and enables him/ her to choose the right career. The test is offered to students from standard VIII to XII. Prior to the test a brief personal history of the student is taken. The process of vocational guidance is completed within four hours. It consists of four steps: I. Psychometric Assessment This assesses the Aptitudes, Interest and Personality of a student 1. Aptitude Aptitude indicates the individual’s ability or capacity to acquire skills and knowledge as a result of training. It indicates strength in a given area and predicts success in studies, training programmes and careers, which require competencies in that area. The five areas assessed are: a. Verbal Reasoning: A test to determine how well one can think and reason with the help of language. b. Abstract Reasoning: An intelligence test to find how well one can think without the use of concrete material /language. c. Spatial Relations: A test to determine the ability to visualize different shapes and sizes of two and three-dimensional figures. d. Mechanical Reasoning: A test to find the ability to apply scientific principles to day-to-day machines used in the environment. e. Numerical Ability: A test to determine how quick and accurate an individual is in dealing with numbers. 2. Interest This test measures a students likes and dislikes for certain objects, activities, whether thought about or actually encountered. An inventory to find out the pattern of interests developed in any of the five specific vocational areas, namely Medicine; Engineering; Commerce; Arts and Fine arts. 3. Personality The personality test is one that is aimed at creating self-awareness. It indicates the degree of social and emotional adjustment with the self and others. II. Interpretation of test result by Counselling Psychologist. III. Presentation on career options to parents and students followed by question & answer session. IV. Individual Counselling (If required) Fee per student: Rs. 450 plus applicable service tax.