“A psychometric test is a standardized test that measures characteristics such as intelligence, aptitude, memory, or personality.  These tests fall into two main categories; personality tests and aptitude tests.”

Personality tests

If we need to measure some one’s personality we will use special tests called personality tests .There are two main types of personality tests .

• Self-report inventories
• Projective tests

Aptitude tests

In order to measure the cognitive ability of candidate aptitude tests are used . Most commonly used in the selection of jobs .