The ability to use several math skills and logical thinking to solve problems in everyday situations. It involves gathering and sorting through all information related to a problem, making educated guesses about how best to solve the problem, picking a likely way to solve it, and then explaining your decisions.

The ability to understand the meaning of words and use them effectively in good communication when you listen, speak, or write.

The ability to form pictures of objects in your mind. It involves easily understanding how drawings represent real objects and correctly imagining how parts fit together.

The ability to use arithmetic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to solve everyday problems involving numbers.

The ability to quickly and accurately see differences in detail in printed material. It involves noticing if there are mistakes in the text and numbers or if there are careless errors in working math problems. This ability measures “speed of perception,” which is required in many industrial jobs, even when these jobs do not have verbal or numerical content.

The ability to quickly and accurately see details in objects, pictures, or drawings. It involves noticing little differences in the shapes of figures, shading, lengths, and widths of lines.