Based on your overall score, you are positioned at job level 4 on a 5-level benchmark scale, indicating potential for middle management or specialist roles.

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APIL Short Version
APIL SV Developmental Report: Client's Copy
Respondent Mr C Horn
Age: 22
ID Number: **********084
Education Level:
Date of Testing: 18 July 2013
Current Job Level:
Disadvantagement Adjustment
Factor: None
The APIL is an assessment instrument that evaluates a person's potential for further development in
intellectually challenging career directions. It is also used to evaluate whether a person is likely to succeed
in tertiary level education or training.
In the course of doing the test battery, you did various activities that produced four scores measuring different
aspects of your learning potential. These scores are then put together to produce an overall evaluation of
your learning potential. All evaluations are obtained by comparing your performance with the performance
of a group of other people with a relatively similar educational background. In this report, you have been
compared with a group of people who are described as follows:
Working population with post-matric education (degrees or diplomas), average age 28; 55% black; 23%
white; 8% coloured; 14% Indian.
Your overall potential score also gives an indication the job level at which you are likely to function most
effectively, or at which you could function given the right training. This information is given at the end of
the report.
Brief descriptions of the areas in which you were assessed are given below, and your performance in
comparison to the reference group is described in each case.
Conceptual or abstract thinking
This dimension assesses your ability to think logically and see critical connections between different facts
or sets of information. Conceptual thinking enables a person to organise his or her world effectively and be
a successful problem-solver. The problems and challenges an individual faces each day are different,
especially in more demanding jobs and educational programs. If you are able to see the basic similarity or
connection between previous problems that you have learned to solve and the problem you are presently
facing, you are likely to be more successful in dealing with varied and challenging work roles or educational
tasks.
In comparison with the reference group mentioned above, your score on this aspect of learning potential
indicates that your capacity to think conceptually is above average.

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APIL Short Version
Learning rate and output
When you learn something new, your performance gets progressively better as you become more familiar
with the material. You are on a "learning curve". This curve sweeps upwards, showing how much you are
improving with time and exposure to the material.
Some people learn faster than others: in other words, their learning rate or gradient is steeper. The steeper
the learning gradient, the better; as it indicates a fast rate of learning.
Another important indicator of learning is the level of performance you reach after a learning exposure. In
the APIL, the learning opportunities include an initial practice session, a lesson and a study period. Your
output in the session after these learning exposures indicates how much you have benefited from them.
The learning gradient and the level of output after the learning experiences are two important and measures
of learning potential.
On the gradient measure your performance was 6, which is average-plus, and on the final session output
score, your performance was 8, which is superior.
Understanding and mastering novel information
The Dictionary of the Curve of Learning Test contains novel information. While doing the test, you had
opportunities to learn the contents of the Dictionary. At the end of the test, the Dictionary was taken away
and you were quizzed on your knowledge of the symbols and words in the Dictionary.
An important dimension of learning potential is the capacity to master new material of an intellectually
demanding nature under some time pressure. In the APIL, this dimension is measured by the Memory and
Understanding Test, based on the Dictionary. Your performance on this dimension indicates that you
mastered and understood the novel material is average-plus.
Your overall performance on APIL
The various dimensions of learning potential given in this report can be put together into an overall measure.
If this measure were compared against a different reference group, your rating might change. In general, if
you are compared against a group that is highly educated and trained, you will receive a lower rating than if
you are compared against a group which is less highly educated and trained. This is because higher educated
and trained reference groups set higher standards with regard to the comparison of your performance against
theirs. As a rule, a person is compared with people who have roughly the same level of education as theirs.
However, in some cases a person may be compared with others who are at the educational level required for
a particular activity such as admission into a certain educational program.
In comparison with the reference group used in this report, your current level of learning potential is above
average.

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APIL Short Version
Your position on a scale benchmarked with job levels
Your APIL score can be related to a scale that is benchmarked with five job levels: (1) unskilled, (2) semi-
skilled, (3) skilled/supervisory, (4) middle management/subject matter specialist, and (5) senior
management/advanced subject matter specialist. A person's score on this scale is not norm-dependant.
On the benchmarked scale, you were located on level 4. A pictorial representation of the scale is given below,
with your position marked with an "X".