It is a timed, multiple-choice test designed to assess your cognitive abilities. The UKCAT is used for medicine and dentistry school admissions in the UK. The Bar Course test is a variation of the Watson-Glaser test, used for Barristers to claim their place on the Bar Professional Training Course UKCAT (UK Clinical Aptitude test)
Similar to the Watson-Glaser, it assesses critical thinking but uses numerical reasoning to do so. The RANRA often accompanies a Watson-Glaser test for the recruitment of a more senior role. RANRA (Rust Advanced Numerical Reasoning Appraisal) It is an opportunity for you to show creative flare and ‘outside the box’ thinking, and is often used by Law firms and other professional practices. It focuses primarily on your ability to draw conclusions based on limited information. The Watson-Glaser test evaluates your ability to analyse and make a decision. They also minister the LNAT, or Law National Aptitude Test. This will not give us an educational theory, but rather theoretical perspectives on teaching as a practice.Pearson are the owners of the TalentLens assessment platform who provide a range of psychometric tests including DAT Next Generation and Bennett Mechanical Comprehension Test, and renowned Watson Glaser and SOSIE 2nd Generation. Indeed, such a conception is a forceful reminder that the theoretical practices which are concerned with education need to focus on current teaching practices if they are to guard against the sort of empty rationalism despised by Oakeshott, while saying something to the teaching profession. None of these, of course, nullifies the significance of regarding teaching as a practice. To do this we need, at least for some of these beliefs, to draw upon the resources made available to us by such theoretical practices as psychology, philosophy, history, etc.
While the principles of practical reasoning advocated by Pearson may serve to test the coherence of the various beliefs which are part of current practice, they do not suffice to test the reasonableness of such beliefs. If I have understood Pearson's use of “a practice” correctly my main objection to his project is that it gives the current practices of teaching far too much normative force over the educational beliefs of teachers.