An assessment should help you understand—not label—a student.
Psychometric assessment can provide structured information about areas such as aptitude, interests and personality. It is one input into career decision-making, not a machine that predicts a student's future. Interpretation, context and counselling remain important.
A psychometric report is a set of measurements taken on one day and compared against people of the same age. That is genuinely useful, and it is also all it is. It can show where a student's reasoning is strong, what kind of work is likely to hold them, how they tend to approach people and problems. It cannot predict a career, rank your child against a cousin, or settle a family argument on its own.
What a report can and cannot do
What each section of a report is actually measuring.
Percentiles explained, including what they do not mean.
The questions worth asking your counsellor once you have read it.
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The evidence behind all of this — who you would speak to, and what we will not claim — sits on the Parents page, where it belongs to the whole audience rather than to one service.