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Brain Tests To Make Better Career Choice

This article was updated on 10th June 2020

Once there was a boy, his name was Sagar. He was a very laborious boy and he was among the meritorious students of his class. He used to participate in speeches, debates, group discussion, creative writing competitions and so on. When he got into 9th grade he became a fan of Jug Suraiya, one of the most celebrated columnists of Times Of Time. He maintained a big heavy notebook where he kept a collection of journals and notes.

"He wanted to become a journalist," he said to his father, a salaried middle-class man. His father said that he was good in Mathematics and science so he should better choose science stream. Over and above his father showed his concern about his safety in the job and struggle attached to it. He wanted his son to be a government servant. Sagar was stopped to read magazines and was rather made to join a coaching centre to crack JEE exam. Dishearten boy was not able to oppose his father but he could not perform better in the JEE exam.

Even though he was set free to live his dream and now when he is doing the job of a clerk in government service, he blames his parents, he regrets his underachievement. Sometimes, in fact, most often, parents impose their dreams on their children and forget about the dream, the aspirations, the joy and the interest of their own children. Like Farhan in the movie three idiots, we are making our children ready for a rat race. Everybody wants their child to become an engineer, a doctor or a government servant. But nobody asks or cares what their wards really want.

Albert Einstein wrote, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” The question I have for you at this point of our journey together is, “What is your genius?”

But how often we set our child-free to live his or her own dream.

On the other hand, many times parents are not able to estimate the real potential of their child because they must not be testing his skills or potential in the right field. Owing to this the scientists have tried to find a lot of methods and solutions one of which is DMIT or Dermatoglyphics Multiple Intelligence Test. It originated from two Greek words, Derma means skin and Glyphe means curve. It is a method in which fingerprint patterns are tested which helps in understanding a great individuals potential and personality type. Fingerprints truly are closely associated with the infant’s mental development. Fingerprints are usually developed during the 13th to 19th week of an embryo. Fingerprints start to develop inside the embryo from 13th Week. In fact, it gets formed by 24th week. Many research papers have got elaborated with a link between fingerprint patterns and Human Brain lobes. The history of Dermatoglyphics is 200 years old. It was invented by Harold Cummins. This test is used to find the inborn talents of people.

But many experts suggest that one should better look for practical methods to test a childs brain capacity. Besides that. DMIT test just gives the idea of the innate quality of a child. The real picture of a childs brain and its capacity can be measure through different types of career guidance test.

Types of Career Guidance Test:-

1) IQ Test: Intelligence Quotient Test is the score derived from standardized tests designed to excess human intelligence.

2) EQ Test: Emotional Quotient Test was introduced by Daniel Goleman. He highlighted how emotional aspects impact the proficiency of a person.

3) AQ Test: Adversity Quotient Test:- Is the test of measuring the potential of a person to withstand adverse situation, their response to it and way of finding a solution for the same.

4) CQ Test: Creativity Quotient Test:- It is used to measure the level of creativity in a person.

5) VAK Test: VAK stands for Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic test that tests the pace of learning ability through audiovisual and kinesthetic practices like discussions, or use demonstrations, field trips, games, simulations, stretching, or energizers. The original VAK concepts were first developed by psychologists and teaching (of children) specialists such as Fernald, Keller, Orton, Gillingham, Stillman and Montessori, starting in the 1920s. VAK theory is now a favourite of the accelerated learning community because its principles and benefits extend to all types of learning and development, far beyond its early applications.

6) Aptitude Test:-An aptitude test is a systematic means of testing a job candidates abilities to perform specific tasks and react to a range of different situations. The tests each have a standardized method of administration and scoring, with the results quantified and compared with all other test takers.

7) Personality Test:-  This test covers the measure of personality traits of the person and how it can be useless and harmful to them.

8) Multiple Intelligence Test:- The theory of multiple intelligences was developed in 1983 by Dr Howard Gardner, professor of education at Harvard University. It suggests that the traditional notion of intelligence, based on I.Q. testing is far too limited. Instead, Dr Gardner proposes eight different bits of intelligence to account for a broader range of human potential in children and adults. This intelligence is Linguistic intelligence, Logical-mathematical intelligence, Spatial intelligence, Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence, Musical intelligence, Interpersonal intelligence, Intrapersonal intelligence and Naturalist intelligence.

9) SOWT Analysis Test:- SWOT analysis is a strategic planning technique used to help a person or organization identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to business competition or project planning. It is intended to specify the objectives of the business venture or project and identify the internal and external factors that are favourable and unfavourable to achieving those objectives. Users of a SWOT analysis often ask and answer questions to generate meaningful information for each category to make the tool useful and identify their competitive advantage. SWOT has been described as the tried-and-true tool of strategic analysis.

10) Psychometric Test:-Psychometric tests are often used as part of the recruitment process and are a way for employers to assess your intelligence, skills and personality. Recruiters use the results from these tests to determine whether you would be a suitable match for the company to which you are applying.

All these tests help an incomplete study of the human brain has been debated for a long time. The use of DMIT is also a widely debated method. There is always a critic about this method that it would make human life more like a robot with emotions like sympathy, empathy, love, care, etc. But the scientists suggest it as a wonderful way to help students choose the career of their choice. Many school and universities are also pondering over the possibilities of using.

Benefits of Career Guidance test:-

1) Right choice:- It helps parents to decide from the very beginning where to divert the energy of their wards. E.g. A child good in studies may not be good at sports. So, if a child good is sports is talk in sports or army school he can perform better there instead of a school with heavy book load pressure. On the other hand, the boy good in science could be sent to a school with science subjects available and a boy good in arts could be sent to a good art school.

2)  Report Card: Such tests are the report card of the brain and it can even explain which part of the brain of a particular person is more powerful and what should a person do to fix weakness if any.

3) Graph: Time to time test say after every two year or annually can show how the brain of the person is developing.

4) More Efficient: This could make a child more efficient and more productive.

5) Happy: What else could be better if you love your job. To get into a career of ones interest is really a blessing and it could be made possible through these tests.

Lets try to understand it with an example when we take a wrong lane to our home and we realise that we are off track what do we do? Take a turn or chose another path. So, why dont we do it with our lives? Even after realizing that we are not made for a certain field we go into it, like a life of formality and die. On the other hand if one makes the right choice of ones career the life can turn amazing. What if what we have to see. Whether we will astray or take a turn and choose the right direction, a direction which we are destined for, a life which will give us satisfaction in true sense.

Life is full of opportunities and choices. But it is our decision, our choices that make us what we become. One has to break the rules of conventional middle-class society which things career end only in doctors, engineers and government services. Have your own dream, try to evaluate it from time to time. Many exams test our reasoning and decision-making ability to ensure that we would withstand the challenges of the job. Similarly, one has to keep working ones weak points of the brain and try to develop it so that one can live a happy and satisfactory life.

I hope this advice will strike your consciousness and will make you more aware of yourself and help you to make a better career choice.

Good Luck


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