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What is Aptitude Testing?
Our aptitude testing service is a series of hands-on assessments that provide objective data about your natural strengths and talents. We’re both a testing service and a research institute with over 100 years of research into careers and human aptitudes.
Aptitude testing can help students at any stage of their college journeys make strengths-based career and educational choices. Your test results can explain why certain college majors and occupations would be more satisfying or rewarding for you than others. You might even discover new possibilities that you never considered. The secret to a satisfying career is finding work that uses your natural talent and potential.
Our research shows that students who test with us switch majors at lower rates than the average college student. Understanding your aptitudes is a shortcut to getting on the right path for your future.
The JOCRF Difference
What are Aptitudes?
Aptitudes are natural talents for doing certain kinds of things quickly and easily.
These abilities aren’t related to what you’ve learned in school or your interests, which can change over time.
Aptitudes are talents you’re born with, so you can use your test results to make decisions throughout your life.
Our Tests are Different
Personality tests and interest questionnaires reflect how you feel about yourself at that moment in time.
Our tests don’t consist of answering subjective questions or filling out forms, and they’re not influenced by factors like past experiences or schooling.
We provide objective data about how your mind likes to work and what careers might best match your combination of abilities.
How will Aptitude Testing Help Me?
Knowing your strengths and weaknesses is one of the most important aspects of career planning.
Aptitude testing provides objective data about the areas you’re likely to succeed in and the ones you might want to avoid.
People tend to be more satisfied and successful in occupations that use their aptitudes.
Aptitude Testing and Research since 1922
Since 1922, we’ve helped hundreds of thousands of people understand their innate potential and choose careers that fit how their minds like to work, naturally.
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Comprehensive Testing for Only $950
The Aptitude test includes:
- Six total hours of testing (Two three-hour sessions that can be taken on a single day, or spread over two days.)
- One 60-90 minute results consultation
- A second optional consultation that can be taken within a year of testing
- Written materials (digital report and book) are also included
- Multiple convenient testing locations across the United States
As a nonprofit organization, we are firmly committed to keeping prices as low as possible while covering our operating costs.
Frequently Asked Questions
The fee is $950.
That flat fee (less than the cost of a university course) includes six hours of testing, one 60-90 minute results consultation and a second, optional consultation that can be taken within a year of testing. Written materials (a 20-page digital report with career suggestions; industry standard career interest survey; and 111-page reference book) are also included.
As a nonprofit organization, we are firmly committed to keeping prices as low as possible while covering our operating costs.
We have been researching human abilities, and constructing and validating tests for these abilities since 1922. Because they require the use of specialized apparatus, audiovisual equipment and individual administration, our battery of ~21 different aptitude tests is only available at the Johnson O’Connor Research Foundation.
We measure natural abilities like spatial visualization, reasonings, ideation, goal-setting, design, music, dexterities and more. We also offer a proprietary workplace personality test.
We also test for vocabulary and administer an industry-standard career interest survey called “The Self-Directed Search.”
About half of our tests are given individually by a trained test administrator; the rest are given using audiovisual equipment. Each set of tests is anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half long, with breaks in between sets. Most of our tests are timed and require the use of both hands.
Our tests feel more like puzzles or games than school tests. Some are as short as a couple of minutes and others are as long as twenty minutes. There’s a lot of variety throughout the day.
There are two testing sessions, each about three hours long, and a third appointment to review the results. The results appointment (called the summary appointment) is 60-90 minutes and held over Zoom on a separate day from testing.
Many of our clients opt for a one-day testing format (testing in the morning and afternoon with a lunch break in the middle of the day), but half-day testing appointments can also be scheduled over separate days.
One flat fee includes:
- Six total hours of testing (Two three-hour sessions that can be taken on a single day, or spread over two days.)
- One 60-90 minute results consultation
- A second, 60-90 minute consultation that can be taken within a year of testing
- Written materials (digital report with career suggestions and reference book)
- Industry-standard career interest survey, “The Self-Directed Search”
- Digital badge you can share on resumes or LinkedIn
- Career guidance that can be used today and throughout your career. Our research shows that aptitudes are relatively stable over time, so the information you’ll receive never expires.
Contact any of our 15 testing locations by email or phone to schedule testing.
All of our testing locations are listed here.
Every office offers the same battery of tests for the same fee.
Appointments must be made in advance, especially for holidays and school vacation times. The advance notice needed varies from month to month. During the summer, it’s best to schedule further in advance. Our busiest times are July and August, Thanksgiving and Christmas/New Year’s weeks, any school vacation time, and the holidays the Foundation is open.
Outside of our high-demand times, you may be able to schedule with just a few days’ or a week’s notice.
Our offices are generally open Monday through Friday. Some offices are occasionally open on Saturdays. Contact the office where you plan to be tested.
All offices are open on the following holidays: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents’ Day, Indigenous Peoples/Columbus Day, and Veterans Day. All are closed on New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.