Cashing In From Aptitude Tests

Do you remember doing those student aptitude tests in high school? I remember clearly doing my first test as if it was just yesterday. I started off like a lot of my classmates, just doodling in the margins disinterested, but I decided to give it a closer look.

I was engaging about either or not there was anyone to these aptitude tests and figured the only way to know for sure was to take it seriously. I went ahead and answered every demand but as you know, the questions are so poorly written in most cases that it's hard not to make it come out the way you'd like.

Given my caress back in high school, it may assault you as a little odd that I ended up designing aptitude tests for a living. It is a job I just sort of stumbled into-I'd never given it any plan before, but I happened to come over a job posting on a bulletin board.

The position was advertised by a national testing enterprise and mentioned that they were searching for writers to found questions on spec rather than paying up front. I knew there was a risk that this was a scam, but gave it a shot anyhow. As it turned out, they used all of the questions I wrote for them and they took me on for a contract job, paying per the piece.

I started off by writing questions for schoraly aptitude tests, largely in the area of English comprehension. Before long, I was working on many other kinds of questions, however. It is not something a lot of habitancy know, but many of great standardized tests are done by a small whole of large testing companies.

And once you get started with one of these companies, there's quite a bit of work available. It can take a while before it admittedly starts to pay off in financial terms, but once you come to be skilled at writing test questions, you can do very well for yourself.

In fact, the pay is good adequate that I paid my own way straight through college along with a few small student loans; however, I was largely able to get by just by writing test questions. So there you have it: half of the questions on those enterprise aptitude tests you see are admittedly written by college students!