My V.A.T experience

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Earlier this week I said the week concludes
with a vocational assessment Test(battery).
Yup! It was today!

The V.A.T was reminiscent of the autism associated
reviews for children, except orientated for adults.
the tests ranged from a job type test, math test,
word association test, and pieces of puzzles on paper
test, then a DUUULLLLLL survey of 20 questions
that repeat them selves 9-10 times.

I got up instinctively at 7:15am to a quiet house,
I was up until 3am making a CD upgrade disk
for my computer. BeeBee and I eventually
left the house by 7:45am.

I didn't have time to reset myself, but that
wasn't a problem because I enjoyed the tests.

Carol is a lady with cerebral Palsy and very
nice to work with. Her employer is some
famous psychologist who made the tests
for; IN MY OPINION, neurological people
catching. They were reminiscent to autism
ones I read about.

She explained she works for him part-time
and her initial employer is the University
of Minessota, and they(the services I am going
through) helped her get a college degree
there(UMN) and she is not in her PH.D stage.

Test one was a "like, indifferent, Dont like"
question and fill in with pencil test. It was
about personal job preferences.

Nothing too out of the ordinary there. It would
be the later tests that represent my reading
subjects(autism).

These tests started the neurological catching
path.

The first one was math, and in 6 minutes you
answer a series of multiplying questions that
make you think! Thus not put on paper so much
but figure them out in your head.

You fill them out as accurately, and much
as possible. This is to probly see how
quick you are in #'s and how you can
solve them.

Or perhaps how you are good at improvising?

you then take a picture andmatch it to it's
exact copy. What was cool about this is
that if you are like me, you might take a
slight pause and realize how slow on the take
I or perhaps you can be to such a simple
task.

This is similar to the tests I read on children
with autism, and how matching pictures can
be a challenge. For me it was, at least.

Again, you have another 40 unfolded images
and you are suppose to match their end-
product.

This was a intellectual challenge for me since
I had to imagine how the pattern would look
like. I don't know if that is a autism thing?
But it is similar to book lore on testing with
kids.

She had me move pegs in certain patterns to see
how clumbsy(definely that!) I was in doing the
requested patterns. Then flipping them over
iin a syncronized pattern.

This test was to put washers on pins ina short 10
second time. I found this to be challenging and
as much fun as picking the matchiing pictures.

I like the required labor and guess work that
this stimulated and revealed weakness of what
Grief. Bros. may have saw. it proved that I was
not a multitasker, and a autistics challenge.

She finally gave a MIQ(minesota importance questionaire"]
The MIQ was a repetative form of questioning
that repeated phrases that will form statstistical
numbers. This was probly also to check how
of balance one may be in such challenges in a
autism perspective.

ljbouchard
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Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 6:09 pm    Post subject:
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The IQ and MMPI tests I was given last year seem to be similar.

An interesting note is that I do not do well on multiple-choice math tests where they only want the answer. When I started college, I was put into a remidal type algebra class because of a low test score. I got an A in the class and obviously did not belong there. However when I took the exit exam (again, multiple choice), I barely passed it.

When I was taking Calculus III (Calculus in 3-dimensional space), a fellow student inform me of what he was seeing in my work and that was when I realized that I usually understood the concepts and got those parts right but after that, I would make a stupid error (in the case of Calculus, a stupid algebra error, in the case of algebra, a stupid arithmatic error), and that is what caused me to get the wrong answers.

It is because of the above reason that I would like to find a college that does not require the GMAT or any similar test to enter into a masters program.
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Rochester Minnesota

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