NCAE or National Career Assessment
Examination is done by the students or out-of-school youth. It is to test or to
prepare them of what courses can they take for college. It measures their skills
and aptitudes and calculates the best-fitting field or discipline for the test
takers to pursue. Before, NCAE is usually done by the fourth year students but
now, it is done by the third year students like me. So, when we go to fourth
year level, we already know in what particular field we are going to pursue in
preparation for the course that we will take for college.
As I have said, since I am a fourth year student, we also
took this. But before that, we consumed a lot of days to review for this test.
I could say that all the things that we have done are worth it. It helped us so
much in answering the test. It made the test easier for us to answer.
The exam is compose of many categories. We have the
Examinee’s Descriptive Questionnaire which is more on our personal matters and
preferences. We have the Mathematical ability which is more on computations.
Science Ability is more on analysis. There are also Reading Comprehension,
Verbal, Non-verbal and Clerical Ability, Manipulative and Entrepreneurial
Skills. Entrepreneurial Skills are more on business matters.
The exam is really hard but since there are choices, we have
finished it. At least, we have 25% sure of our answers on each question because
there are four choices. Some part of the exam are just the same with what we
had on our review. So, we already had ideas for those. But some part of it were
not that easy because I have already forgotten those topics.
We took the examination for a half day. It was quite a boring
just sitting on your chair, thinking, no chatting with your seatmates and it
was very quiet. After we have taken all the tests, we went home already. When I
arrived at our house, I was very exhausted; I rested and slept for more than
two hours.
