Engineering Test V

We offer five personality and aptitude tests for engineers, tailored to meet your pre-employment testing needs. Test batteries range from basic questions to multi-answer and open-statement questions.

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This Engineering Pre-Employment Test Helps You Hire the Best in the Field.

Purpose: Hiring an engineer today can be challenging. There are a lot of candidates of enormously varying engineering qualifications. Our online personality test and engineering aptitude test finds the top candidates. It will help you identify the person who can communicate well, be a strong team player, adapt well to your company procedures and culture, work hard, and have the mental ability to handle intellectually challenging job duties.

If you are wondering which of our five engineering aptitude assessments would best meet your needs, please see the Engineering Test comparison table below to help you understand the content of each one.

What the Report Gives You: Graphical display of scores, explanation of aptitude results, list of strengths and developmental concerns, and suggested interview questions.

Engineer V

About Test V: This test takes approximately 1.5 to 2 hours to complete and contains two timed and three untimed sections.

An untimed personality assessment
An untimed test of engineering knowledge pertaining to manufacturing and design engineering
A test of general cognitive aptitude (equally divided among verbal, numerical, and abstract reasoning)
A timed mechanical reasoning test
Open-ended statements to which the candidate has to type in a short answer.

View Engineer V Test Chart of Behaviors Evaluated

View other engineering tests: Engineer I • Engineer II • Engineer III • Engineer IV • Engineer V

Which Engineering Test Should I Use?

Sample Personality Item:

For the statement
on the left

I feel very strongly about it	I feel it describes me most of the time	I can’t decide between the two statements	I feel it describes me most of the time	I feel very strongly about it

For the statement
on the right

I put forth a great deal of effort at work because my real passion is my career.

I come to work and do what is asked of me, but my real enjoyment in life is when I go home.

Sample Question for Engineering / Technical Math Test
Which situation could flow more water?		(A) Single 6” pipe (B) Group of nine 1” pipes (C) Both would flow the same (D) Neither of the above

Sample Questions for General Cognitive Aptitude Test
Sample verbal reasoning item: House is to dwelling as car is to ____________.		(A) transportation (B) traveling (C) speed (D) automobile (E) mechanical
Sample numerical reasoning item: Which number comes next in this series? 3 6 9 19 22 25		(A) 32 (B) 35 (C) 52 (D) 15 (E) 28
Sample abstract reasoning item: Which figure would come next in the series?

Sample Question for Mechanical Reasoning Test

Which system will allow the 50 lb. crate to be picked up with the least effort?		(A) System A (B) System B

Sample Question for Short Answer
The three things I want most from my job are...

(Sample questions differ from actual test appearance and do not contain real test content.)

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Engineering Test V

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