{"id":1838,"date":"2022-01-13T19:44:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T19:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evalart.com\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2025-09-17T00:31:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T00:31:41","slug":"el-test-de-wonderlic-usos-caracteristicas-y-pruebas-alernativas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evalart.com\/en\/blog\/el-test-de-wonderlic-usos-caracteristicas-y-pruebas-alernativas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wonderlic Test: Uses, features and alternative tests"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wonderlic Test or Wonderlic Personnel Test (WPT) is a tool to measure general intelligence. It was developed in 1936 by Eldon F Wonderlic, an industrial psychologist at Northwestern University. The test has been administered about 200 million times in the last 75 years.<\/p>\n

The Wonderlic test assesses individuals’ ability to learn, adapt to their environment, problems solving, and understand instructions. Likewise, this instrument is a very valid predictor of future functional efficiency.<\/p>\n

One of the most relevant elements of any definition of intelligence is that it involves the ability to solve problems and learn. That is why intelligence tests pursue the measurement of ability more than the detection of knowledge.<\/p>\n

This is extremely important since a high assessment of knowledge is not a guarantee of defined skills and abilities required for the successful execution of a task, activity, or job. The test can be used for any type of work, from the most routine to the most complex.<\/p>\n

The Wonderlic test in personnel selection<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Wonderlic is the most used intelligence test for the selection and placement of company personnel, as well as for professional orientation.<\/p>\n

The use of intelligence tests<\/a> in personnel selection processes is very common in most modern organizations. The reason is that they clearly show the aptitudes of the applicants for a position.<\/p>\n

Generally, intelligence tests are organized in different blocks in order to evaluate different facets of the applicant. In general terms, the approximate duration of these tests is 60 minutes. While the Wonderlic test takes about 12 minutes and consists of 50 questions.<\/p>\n

The use of the Wonderlic test for this purpose is widespread in companies due to its quality of providing results that allow us to learn much more about the applicant, his or her virtues, and defects. The test assesses the applicant’s logical, mathematical, and verbal reasoning skills.<\/p>\n

The result of the test allows improving those areas in which the candidate has been weaker. The test allows reducing the costs of recruitment and training generating savings in terms of time and money.<\/p>\n

Evaluation and interpretation<\/strong><\/p>\n

The questions have only one valid answer. The number of correct answers determines the final grade.<\/p>\n

Punctuation<\/p>\n

The number of correct answers, which represents the final grade, allows the following classification:<\/p>\n