Summer 2008

The WBST is designed to assess the basic verbal and mathematical skills required for nonprofessional jobs. Quantitative skills are measured in terms of practical mathematical applications and verbal ability is measured in terms of reading comprehension, word knowledge, grammar, and sentence construction. The test is taken using pen and paper and then scored using PC software.

Verbal skills, 20 minutes;
quantitative skills, 25 minutes

Mathematical Skills

This portion of the Wonderlic Basic Skills Test contains about 45 items. You are asked different questions focusing upon the basic mathematical concepts such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The questions may take different turns depending upon your applied jobs. Generally, the tester may try to find out:

1- Can you apply the basic mathematical functions upon whole numbers, fractions, and decimals?

2- Can you apply basic functions upon whole or fractional monetary units?

3- Can you apply your basic mathematical knowledge upon measurement units such as time, length, width, weight, distance etc? The units may be in the shape of whole numbers or the fractional ones.

4- Can you apply your knowledge upon ratio, percentage and other such functions?

5- How much developed skills you have in Algebra?

6- How much grasp you have upon basic geometrical concepts?

The Wonderlic Basic Skills Test is widely used psychological instrument. However, the USA labor department gives it more importance than any other labor department in the world. That’s why the US labor department has specified six different job levels for the different levels of Wonderlic Basic Skills Tests. While encountering a Wonderlic Basic Skill Test, you must keep in mind that it is not your speed of answering but correct choices which makes you fit or unfit for your applied job.

Test Structure

Sample #1
Sample #2
Sample #3
Sample #4


How to Ace the Exam

Grammar

• Interactive Quizzes
• Self-Study Grammar Quizzes
• Blue Book
• Online Exercises
• Using English
• University of Illinois
• Bartleby | Elements of Style
• Activities for ESL Students| javascript
  
• The Blue Book
• HyperGrammar
• AngelFire
• ESL Classroom
  
• eflnet
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Math

• Addison Wesley
• pearl necklace
• fresh baked fractions
• rename fractions
• fraction tutorial
• practice problems
• Marlene's Fractions
• Utah State

APA Citation Format

Citing an article requires including information that will allow anyone (including you) to find the article at a later date. Generally, you must include the author's name, the date of publication, the article's title, the page numbers, and the publisher. Use the following APA Citation Format examples to help create the correct citation format.

Article in Journal Paginated by Issue

Journals paginated by issue begin with page one every issue; therefore, the issue number gets indicated in parentheses after the volume. The parentheses and issue number are not italicized or underlined.

Scruton, R. (1996). The eclipse of listening. The New Criterion, 15(30), 5-13.

Article in a Magazine

Henry, W. A., III. (1990, April 9). Making the grade in today's schools. Time, 135, 28-31.

Article in a Newspaper

Unlike other periodicals, p. or pp. precedes page numbers for a newspaper reference in APA style. Single pages take p., e.g., p. B2; multiple pages take pp., e.g., pp. B2, B4 or pp. C1, C3-C4.

Schultz, S. (2005, December 28). Calls made to strengthen state energy policies. The Country Today, pp. 1A, 2A.

EBSCO Databases

Science

• Science Reference Center — contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.
  
• General Science Collection — full text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications including Archaeology, Astronomy, Discover, National Geographic, National Wildlife, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, and many others.
  
• Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia — indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas.
  
• EBSCO Encyclopedia of Animals — in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
  

Medical

• MEDLINE — authoritative medical information on medicine,nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
  
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition — provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. In addition, this database includes Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

Gale Databases

• Health Reference Center Academic – Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's award-winning Health Reference Center.
• Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module – Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles.

And finally, there are numerous Search Engines and Research Databases available free online to help you find information when nothing else works.


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