Attention Skills Test (CAST)

Test attention skills

Test mental fitness and concentration.

Assess distractibility

Assess ability to sustain focus and avoid distractions.

Interactive format

Participants complete a variety of activities across multiple rounds.

Time

This assessment is completed in 10 minutes.

Your attention please

Measure your candidate’s concentration and ability to multi-task and sustain focus while avoiding distractions.

Interactive format, suitable for a wide range of roles

The Attention Skills Test (CAST) is a brief, interactive assessment of mental fitness, concentration and focused attention. Because of its ability to measure concentration skills, the CAST helps predict employee success in a wide variety of positions across any industry.

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Test ability to multi-task

The Divided Attention task measures a person’s ability to “multi-task” or concentrate on two or more things simultaneously. Almost every job requires this ability to some extent.

Test vigilance

The Selective Attention or Vigilance task measures a person’s ability to maintain concentration on a task for a sustained period of time.

Test distractibility

The Selective Attention or Filtering task measures an individual’s ability to focus on important information and ignore irrelevant distractions. Together with the Vigilance Task, Filtering provides an indication of the test subject’s selective attention, the ability to sustain concentration and ignore distractions – a characteristic important to job performance in a wide variety of jobs.

Test reaction time

The Perceptual Reaction Time task measures one of the most basic cognitive processes: perceptual reaction time, or the speed at which a person recognises and responds to a stimulus.

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Useful and immediate report data

Powerful information delivered in a practical way

The CAST report is designed for easy interpretation by hiring managers, and provides powerful information about each candidate’s mechanical reasoning ability and mechanical aptitude, including:

Raw Score: indicating the number of questions answered correctly.
Sub Scores: indicating the candidate’s specific results in Divided Attention, Selective Attention/Vigilance, Selective Attention/Filtering, and Perceptual Reaction Time

Test results are available as soon as the candidate has completed their assessment.

Robust validation

CAST is a sub-set of a test originally conceived to measure the mental fitness of NASA astronauts, and has been redesigned and adapted for use as a pre-employment assessment by our parent company, Criteria.

Originally developed by Harvard psychologists, the CAST has been extensively validated, demonstrating that the test correlates significantly with job performance for a variety of roles that require a high level of sustained attention and focus.