Sunday, January 8, 2012
In the past six months, i have appeared in both of the consultancy exams that open the for multiple companies - AMCAT and eLitmus. The AMCAT exam comes from the Aspiring Minds Limited, and eLitmus comes from eLitmus evaluations limited. Both of these companies give candidates the opportunity to sit for companies like Ericsson and so. Both the exams have a good track record. AMCAT gives a better detailed result, whereas eLitmus gives a more transparent process. Once, i had a confusion on which one to appear in. eLitmus was expensive, but more reputed, whereas AMCAT was quite reasonable but didn't give the opportunity to apply by oneself(one can only pray that the company will invite the candidate).So i appeared for the both. Both were very different exams. AMCAT tested your speed, efficiency , skills with easy questions that needed to be answered rapidly. eLitmus, on the other hand, needed one to be more precisely correct, and have better IQ abilities.
I got a decent face-saving score in both. Though i like elitmus personally, i'd rather suggest that someone who is on the threshold of making a decision to appear in either one of them should analyse himself/herself well. If you're good at roteing stuff, go for AMCAT. If you're bad at roteing, and use your logic go for eLitmus. I've seen that girls perform better in AMCAT,maybe because they're consistent in efforts and that shows in AMCAT. Both the companies open opportunities for good companies. I've appeared for companies through both these tests, and let me tell you, these tests give you a hell of opportunities, but only to realise that you've only cut the crap, and the competition is still enormous. In one company, i managed to reach till the personal interveiew, but couldn't make it to the HR interview round. The reason was that the company needed to recruit 3 programmers, and there were 60 candidates who had appeared for the PI round.
Hope this has been helpful who are on the verge of this dilemma. It took me three months and 1000bucks to realise this.
Labels: amcat, aspiring minds, elitmus
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