New testing system to be expanded with additional online tests
Since 2020, numerous aptitude tests have been carried out with the ITB’s own test system IONA (ITB-Online-Assessment): Several thousand applicants took part in the ITB-Business, ITB-Science and ITB-Technology tests, as well as the Baden-Württemberg Deltaprüfung. After these successful tests in the years 2020 to 2022, the development of further features and a new registration system, […]
TM-WISO test results will not be sent to the University of Cologne!
As of this year, at the request of the university, we will no longer be sending test results to the University of Cologne. Please make sure to send your results to the University of Cologne in due time. The results will be available for download as a pdf document in your account no later than […]
Updated Terms of Service
We’ve adjusted our Terms of Service. The amendments mainly concern regulations for the conduct of test procedures via proctoring, as well as cases of forbidden behaviour during a test procedure that can lead to exclusion from the test.
Study shows: There is no advantage in intensive training for the TM-WISO
Following the TM-WISO, 205 participants provided information on their preparation time. On average, participants prepared for TM-WISO for 12.08 hours; the correlation between preparation time and test score was not significant. The complex problem-solving tasks used in TM-WISO are intended to be less trainable than tasks measuring general cognitive abilities used in some university admission […]
How is proctoring implemented at the ITB?
The regulations accompanying the pandemic make it necessary in part for certain university examinations and selection procedures for students to be conducted by means of proctoring. With proctoring, examinees take their test at home on their own computer and are supervised digitally by so-called proctors. But not all proctoring is the same! There are different […]
Predictive ability of PhaST for study success in pharmacy confirmed
First-semester students at the University of Tübingen took the first test version of the PhaST in October 2019. As a recent study shows, the test results predict academic success in pharmacy in the first two semesters very well. The PhaST results at the beginning of the first semester correlate significantly with the grade point average […]