This study aims to assess the percentiles of junior engineering students' abilities as they progress academically and to investigate if factors such as academic advancement, age, gender, and CGPA may influence their cognitive skills. To achieve this, the Employability Aptitude Survey Cognitive Test (EAS-test) was administered. Four tests-numerical ability, space visualization, numerical reasoning, and symbolic reasoning responses were selected from the battery of ten tests to calculate the students' overall performance. The percentiles of students' abilities were then determined to fulfill the study's objective. Materials and Methods: Approximately 108 undergraduate students from the Department of Industrial Engineering..........
Keywords: - Aptitude, EAS-cognitive tests; student's percentile; engineering, rententability-threshold; battery score; employability skills, performance skills.
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