Most of the psychometric tests are conducted by The OPC although some TOCs do it themselves.
The first day was paper based tests that included.
Group Bourdon Test
Test of Everyday Attention (TEA-Occ)
This test is split into 3 parts listening to tones, symbols in a telephone directory and then combining the two parts.
Trainability for Rules and Procedures Test (TRP)
again this is split into 2 parts, 1 part listening/reading an extract about GLOP, you can make notes and you are then given roughly 20 questions to answer about what you heard without your notes.
The second part was the dials test.
Some TOCs/FOCs also ask for the DFFT which is the Driver Fault Finding Test.
If you pass stage 1 you will be invited to stage 2 which is the computerised tests and the MMI interview. Again this can vary by operator as some do the DMI before the MMI.
The computerised tests consist of.
ATAVT Perception Test. You will view a picture of a street scene for approximately 0.5-1 second. You will then have to choose from the list what was in the picture from: pedestrians; motor vehicles (excluding motorcycles); bikes, motorcycles or scooters; road signs; traffic lights.
WAFV (Vigilance) Test. You will see a grey square flashing on the screen. When it changes colour to a different shade of grey, you press the large green button as quickly as possible. This continues for 30 minutes, sometimes for long periods between changing.
2Hand Co-Ordination Test. You will have two joysticks, one will only go up and down, and the other will only go left and right. You have to control a ball around a track trying not to let it go off of the grey track, which includes curved sections.