Sime Darby Online Assessment Test

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So I am going to talk a little bit about it in depth. But ALWAYS note that I took it two years ago, so the system now might be different. Whatever I am telling you here is purely on the basis of my experience and perceptions.

During my time, the online test is conducted during the interview session. But now, I was made aware that you can do it on your own personal time, at the comfort of your home. They simply gave you the login id and password to do it. Anyway, it doesnt make any much of a different pun. Because the questions are pretty much straight forward. You won't even need to study anything to answer it. Plus, you wont even have the time to do anything else (googgling, do revisions, ask ur friends) because the browser will keep on refreshing to the next questions, regardless whether you managed to answer or not.

If you asked for a sample question, Im afraid I cant provide you with one. They hired some sort of training and skills consultant to do the online assessment for them. But I can tell you it is similar to the Bloomberg Aptitude Test. Never heard of BAT? Nvm, read on.

They will test you greatly in two areas. Verbal and numerical abilities. When it comes to numerical abilities, fret not, they wont ask you any complicated mathematical problems. You need only to master the basic plus, minus, multiply and division process. But here's the tricky part; you need to be able to conceptualize and analyze the problem given to you. You may know what's the answer to 1+1, but you need to also know how it will fare against other data, how it will be portrayed in a bar graph, what it means, how big the proportion of the slice of pie chart it will represent, yada yada yada. 

If you have a great mental or graphical cognitive, you won't have any problem. Ada soalan yang tak perlu guna calculator pun, but requires great graphical processing. For example, the question give a series of initial and subsequent values. You need to determine which one have the highest percentage increase. If you have great mental representation, you'll be able to draw out an answer without even calculating it one by one. It wont be obvious to the naked eyes, but if you look closely, you'll get it. 

Let's say if the initial value is 100 and the subsequent value is 95, you already know it's not the answer without even calculating because it was a percentage decrease of -5%. Identifying and analyzing is more important than calculating. 

Now the verbal aspect of the test. Basically it tests your interpretation skills. They will give you reports, statistics, memoes, letters and so forth, and you need to extract vital information from them. It is pretty similar to IELTS, MUET and GCSE test you had taken, but a little bit difficult. If you have a decent command in English then you will have no problem. For example, lets say they give out a contract specification and it says the contracts are on a quarterly month basis and the quarterly months are March, June, September and December. If it is now February and a buyer is looking for a semi-annual stock replenishment, which contracts months should he locked into? 

It's pretty much like the english subject we learnt in school, but on a corporate/business level. Also need I to remind you that the questions are mcq, and the browser will keep on refreshing when it reached the time limit. Most often you will find yourself a little bit shorthanded, so you might want to came up with a strategy or something. For me, I did the 'easy' question first then only I tried to answer the slightly harder ones. If the time is almost up and the browser are about to refresh, I simply tembak ja lah. A 25% chance is better than having no chance at all.

Anyway, hope this helps and I hope that you'll get through it with ease. Should you succeeded in securing the scholarship or should you come across me in SDP (scholar development programme) in the future, dont forget to say hi.