Understanding Achievement Tests and Potential Tests

📚 Tes prestasi measures specific knowledge or information that someone knows.

🧠 Tes potensi measures an individual's innate capacity to learn.

🎓 Potensi or bakat is a person's inherent potential that can be enhanced through interaction with the environment.

📚 There are two types of tests: general and specific, with general tests focusing on intelligence and specific tests focusing on academic or vocational skills.

⚖️ The difference between achievement tests and aptitude tests lies in the theory behind them, with achievement tests measuring crystallized intelligence and aptitude tests measuring fluid intelligence.

🔢 There are five types of general aptitude tests: verbal, numeric, mechanical, cracker, and visual.

📊 The diagram shows that general intelligence is a key factor in test success.

📚 Test achievement measures systematic knowledge, while potential testing measures random and changing knowledge.

📈 Test achievement results are relatively unstable without reinforcement, while potential testing results are relatively stable.

📚 The focus of achievement tests is on memorization and evaluation, while potential tests emphasize analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and creation at higher cognitive levels.

⏳ Achievement tests measure past performance, while potential tests focus on predicting future readiness and success in new material and specific jobs.

⚖️ Achievement tests in Indonesia are relatively unfair due to existing disparities.

🏫 Schools with good facilities tend to produce high-achieving students.

📚 The potential test is not influenced by what is taught or trained.

📝 Participants need to study all the materials taught for the potential test.

💤 Sufficient sleep and a nutritious diet are important for test performance.

💪 Believing in oneself and staying calm are key to success in the test.