Psychometric testing forms part of the initial requirements for the award of a Train Driving Licence. There are a variety of assessments available and all are designed to adequately test cognitive, psychomotor and behavioural aptitudes required to have the potential to become a safe train driver. We have included all categories of psychometric test below, and given a brief explanation of each.
List of Services
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Attention
Selective - Being able to differentiate between different sources of information and attend selectively to them, for example distinguishing and attending to various alarms.
Divided - The ability to switch attention between sources of information, and perform different tasks in parallel.
Assessment Method:
Paper Group Bourdon and Test
of Everyday Attention Occupational
(TEA-Occ)
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BehaviouralList Item 2
No established occupational psychological deficiencies, particularly in operational aptitudes or any relevant
personality factor.
Assessment Method:
Situational Judgement Exercise (SJE)
and Multi-Modal Interview (MMI)
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CommunicationList Item 4
The ability to read, listen, understand and respond appropriately, and effectively convey information orally and in writing.
Assessment Method:
Multi-Modal Interview (MMI)
Optional: Written Communication Test
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Hand Coordination
The ability to make appropriate and controlled movements in response to decisions about complex stimuli.
Assessment Method:
2HAND Two hand coordination test
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Memory
The ability to learn, recall and apply job related information in appropriate time limits, for example learn new information in training or applying specific rules and procedures.
Assessment Method:
TRP1 Trainability for Rules and Procedures Test (part 1)
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Perception
The ability to anticipate elements in a traffic environment and make a correct decision about how to respond given the speed and distances involved, for example identifying a landmark cue before a station and starting to decelerate.
Assessment Method:
ATAVT Adaptive Tachistoscopic Traffic Test
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Reaction Time
A quick and adequate response to simple and complex visual and acoustic stimuli and the associated quality of performance.
Assessment Method:
WAFV
ATAVT
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Reasoning
The ability to solve problems and make decisions, for example fault diagnosis; understanding and interpreting information from instrumentation.
Assessment Method:
TRP2 Trainability for Rules and
Procedures test (part 2)
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Vigilance
The ability to attend and respond to stimuli which occur relatively infrequently and over extended periods of time.
Assessment Method:
WAFV Vigilance test
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