CLASSIFICATION OF JOBS - APTITUDES

1. General Learning Ability – ability to catch on or understand instructions and underlying principles; using the ability to reason and make judgments

2. Verbal Aptitude – ability to understand meanings of words and use them effectively; to comprehend language, understand relationships between words and to understand meanings of whole sentences and paragraphs

3. Numerical Aptitude – ability to perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately

4. Spatial Aptitude – ability to think visually of geometric forms and to comprehend two dimensional representations of three-dimensional objects; to recognize the relationships resulting from the movement of objects in space

5. Form Perception – ability to perceive pertinent detail in objects or in pictorial or graphic material; to make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures and widths and lengths of lines

6. Clerical Aptitude – ability to perceive detail in verbal or tabular material; to observe differences in copy, to proofread words and numbers, and to avoid perceptual errors in arithmetic computation

7. Motor Coordination – ability to coordinate eyes and hands or fingers rapidly and accurately in making precise movements with speed; to make movement response accurately and swiftly

8. Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination – ability to move the hand and foot coordinately with each other in accordance with visual stimuli

9. Finger Dexterity – ability to move fingers and manipulate small objects with fingers, rapidly or accurately

10. Manual Dexterity – ability to move hands easily and skillfully; to work with hands in placing and turning motions