Aptitude refers to innate abilities and potential that allow individuals to excel in certain areas or talents. It represents a person's capability to acquire specific skills or knowledge with training. Aptitudes have several characteristics - they are influenced by both heredity and environment, provide insights into future performance, and can be seen in individual performance. There are various types of aptitude tests that measure abilities in areas like verbal, numerical, and spatial reasoning skills. Common educational aptitude tests include the SAT and DAT which assess skills and overall academic competency.

1. Aptitude

2. Mean
• The innate abilities and potentialities helped them to excel in certain
areas, which is known as ‘aptitude’.
• An aptitude is a component of a competency to do a certain kind of
work at a certain level, which can also be considered “talent”.

3. Definition
• Aptitudes are a set of characteristics symptomatic of an individual’s
ability to acquire with training, some specific field of knowledge, skill
or set of responses

4. Characteristics of aptitude
• an abstract phenomena and integrative part of personality.
• present condition but with a forward reference.
• fairly stable but not perfectly constant.
• contribution of both heredity and environment.
• prediction about the individual’s future performance.
• Individual performance can be seen in aptitude.

5. Aptitude tests
• There are many kinds of aptitude tests to know certain areas like
verbal, numerical, clerical, sensory, spatial or mechanical, logic and
reasoning skills.
• Aptitude tests that are intended for educational use include the
Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) and the Differential Aptitude Test
(DAT), which assess one’s particular skill and overall academic
competency.