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Abilities


% Subject Description
75.00 Oral Comprehension The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
75.00 Written Comprehension The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
75.00 Oral Expression The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
75.00 Written Expression The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
75.00 Deductive Reasoning The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
75.00 Inductive Reasoning The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
75.00 Information Ordering The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
72.00 Fluency of Ideas The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
72.00 Problem Sensitivity The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
72.00 Mathematical Reasoning The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
68.75 Category Flexibility The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
68.75 Number Facility The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
68.75 Visualization The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
68.75 Near Vision The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
65.50 Originality The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
59.50 Speech Clarity The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
56.25 Flexibility of Closure The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
56.25 Speech Recognition The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
53.00 Selective Attention The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
53.00 Far Vision The ability to see details at a distance.



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