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How to Create Psychometric Questions in WeCP

This guide helps you create Behavioral, Cognitive, and Personality questions — all part of the Psychometric Question Type in WeCP

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What You Can Assess with Psychometric Questions

The Psychometric Question Type, powered by CulturePro, helps you assess:

  • Cognitive Abilities – A candidate’s capacity for reasoning, attention, memory, and problem-solving

  • Behavioral Traits – Work-related tendencies such as communication style, decision-making approach, and collaboration

  • Personality Traits – Core personality dimensions based on the Big Five (OCEAN) model


How to Create a Psychometric Cognitive Question

Psychometric Cognitive questions assess a candidate’s capacity for reasoning, attention, memory, and problem-solving.

Steps:

  1. From the left navigation, go to Questions.

  2. Click Create Question on the top right.

  3. Select Psychometric from the list of question types.

  4. Under Basic Details, choose Psychometry Category → Cognitive.

  5. Fill in the fields:

    • Title

    • Difficulty (Easy/Medium/Hard)

    • Expected time (in min.)

    • Skills

    • Tags

    • Positive marks and Negative marks

  6. Add a short logic, pattern, or sequence-based question under Question Description.

  7. Under Options, add multiple choices (with one correct).

  8. Click Save changes or Save and create new.


How to Create a Psychometric Behavioral Question

Behavioral questions assess work-related tendencies like communication, decision-making, and ownership.

Steps:

  1. Go to QuestionsCreate QuestionPsychometric.

  2. In Basic Details, select Psychometry Category → Behavioral.

  3. Fill in the fields:

    • Title

    • Difficulty

    • Expected time

    • Skills

    • Tags

    • Positive marks and Negative marks

  4. Write a reflective behavioral statement in the Question Description field.

  5. Under Options, add multiple choices (with one correct).

  6. Click Save changes.


How to Create a Psychometric Personality Question

Personality questions are based on the Big Five (OCEAN) traits and use a locked evaluation format.

Steps:

  1. Go to QuestionsCreate QuestionPsychometric.

  2. In Basic Details, select:

    • Psychometry Category → Personality

    • Evaluation method → Big 5 (OCEAN) (default and only available method)

  3. Fill the fields:

    • Title

    • Scoring Direction

    • Difficulty

    • Expected time

    • Skills

    • Tags

  4. Add a neutral self-reflective statement under Question Description.

  5. In the Options section

    • A 5-point agreement scale is pre-filled (Strongly Disagree → Strongly Agree)

    • Options are locked

    • Responses are auto-evaluated

  6. Click Save changes.


That’s it!

Once you’ve selected the right Psychometry Category, filled the mandatory fields, and added your question statement — just click Save.

Your question will now be available inside the test or my question, ready for use.

Psychometric questions are auto-evaluated, so you don’t need to worry about scoring logic.

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