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eLitmus Evaluation

eLitmus pH Test – The thought behind

© Copyright eLitmus Evaluation Pvt. Ltd.2022


Power of pH test - an example

All hires at Barclays through


eLitmus pH Test became VPs in
7 years
• Individuals hires through assessments
from alternate platforms including likes
of Aon and World’s leading hackathon
platforms are expected to become VPs
earliest in 12 years (most likely 15
years)
• Comments thread of post has feedback
from other customers including Cisco
too!!
• Detailed deck can be shared

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aseem-marwaha-5903a8_superiorassessments-problemsolvingmatters-activity-6701453891575394304-KiYT
Whenever companies want a true filter on analytical and reasoning
capability they use eLitmus pH Test – one of the most researched
analytical and algorithmic test in India (and maybe the world)
Savi goes out to a picnic with 9 of her friends – 6 men, 3 women.
All of them stand in a line. Savi was 3rd from the left and had at
least 4 men on her right. Each of the ten take a coin from their
wallet and toss it. What is the probability that Savi gets a head?

Should a candidate who did not get above question right


be awarded marks for getting a Bayes theorem
probability question right ?

eLitmus score interpretation engine awards lower marks per right question which is rated high in
difficulty if the candidate failed to correctly solve similar questions with low difficulty level
Sum of 10 consecutive whole numbers is 40. What is the sum of
their squares?

In age of Google is knowing a formula an advantage?

eLitmus question paper has all possible formulae. This eliminates the need for a candidate to
memorize them and reproduce the same. eLitmus focus is to check the candidate’s ability to apply
the formula and his/her concepts
There are a dozen each of Banana, Apple and Mango in Ram’s
kitchen. In how many ways can he select 4 of the fruits?

A seemingly high reasoning question with multiple cases


to be considered. Would you still hire the candidate if he
knew a cheat formula for the same ?

High preparedness is a malignant problem. Candidates undergo long hours of training to crack
tests at college, test prep institutes and web sites. Even IITs have identified this as a chronic
problem and reason of deteriorating student quality. eLitmus team continuously tracks the tricks
being taught in test prep (coaching) institutes so as to minimize the advantage to candidates who
have undergone “excessive” test preparation without actually improving their abilities
What is the capital of India?
(a)New Delhi (b) Delhi (c)Mumbai (d) Bangalore

Should a candidate who got answer (b) be treated on


par with those who get answer (c) or (d) ?

Majority of eLitmus questions have a close wrong answer and two far off wrong answers
eLitmus empirical and probabilistic approach differentiates between a candidate who went wrong
but knew the fundamentals versus the one who guessed or is conceptually weak
Amit attempts 40 questions with 8 of them wrong while Ravi
attempts 20 questions with 6 of them being wrong.

Ravi spent more time per question. Should penalty for


each wrong answer be same for both ?

eLitmus uses a handicap based negative marking system (which also accounts for close versus far
off wrong answers in addition to total number of attempts) to make it a level playing field for
candidates

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At end of first 4 matches each in IPL-4, Paul Valtathy had scored
more than 3 times the runs than Tendulkar

Is high performance over a short period of time a good


measure of a person’s capability?

Tests with less time duration are good from logistics perspective but have a high bias to give
wrong results. eLitmus research shows that an aptitude MCQ test of less than 110 minutes
duration is biased in favor of candidates who are highly prepared or guess makers or borderline
cases.
The ratio of boys to girl in a class is 19:21. If there are 95 boys ,
what is the total strength of the class?

With education system encouraging rote over concepts,


is asking lot of direct text book questions in limited
period of time a relevant methodology?

eLitmus pioneered the move from time challenged format to content challenged format in mid
2005 post extensive research and vocally advocated the same. The philosophy was validated when
IIM-CAT adopted a similar approach (reversed in year 2010 as it requires huge investment to
deliver content challenged test through online media in a infrastructure constrained environment)
pH Test A snapshot

• eLitmus owns the IPs for the pH Test: Most widely accepted employability test in India
– Designed to test 7 skills and 2 sub skills found necessary to excel in most jobs.
– Thought leadership
• Methodologies pioneered by eLitmus are adopted in exams like CAT with a lag of 9 to 33 months
• Pioneered move to content challenged tests in India
– Significant IPs
• Handicap based negative marking
• Score re-interpretation methodology
– Accurate evaluation
• Most of the tests designed randomly are accurate only in 95 to 100 percentile range at most. Given the booming
economy most of the time companies need to evaluate 80th to 90th percentile guy
– Ever improvising
• On the job feedback obtained from clients to upgrade our test (current version 4).
– Trivia
• 2 hours, 3 sections (Quantitative aptitude, Problem solving and Verbal) , 600 marks
• No knowledge component (all mathematical formulae given in the question paper)
– For details refer http://elitmus.com/ph_test

• Proven track record


– Efficacy proven through on job performance at over 100 leading companies
• Accenture, Barracuda Networks, Barclays IT , Citi Decision Management, Dell R&D , Fidelity, McAfee, National
Instruments , Ness Technologies ( Amadeus labs project) , Sonus Networks etc.
Why focus on problem solving skills?

• Skills - get you job when you are young in 20s vs


• Problem solving - will keep you employed at age of 40
– At age of 45 you will be 10x more expensive than a 22 year old
– Skills can be taught in 3 to 6 months , but problem solving is long drawn
Tips to improve problem solving skills

• Solve real life problems


– Only for 5% of people, solving theoretical questions improve practical problems solving skills
– Example
• A milk man who sells a milk packet at ₹ 19 , can tell hou 19 x 13 as 247 orally
• But for majority of students who just learnt table it will take effort to calculate orally
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