Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters
Abilities
| % | Subject | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 75.00 | Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
| 72.00 | Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
| 72.00 | Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem. |
| 65.50 | Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. |
| 65.50 | Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
| 65.50 | Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. |
| 65.50 | Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. |
| 62.50 | Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). |
| 59.50 | Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
| 59.50 | Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). |
| 56.25 | Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. |
| 56.25 | Reaction Time | The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. |
| 53.00 | Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. |
| 53.00 | Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. |
| 53.00 | Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
| 53.00 | Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. |
| 53.00 | Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. |
| 53.00 | Auditory Attention | The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. |
| 53.00 | Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. |
| 50.00 | Time Sharing | The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). |
| 50.00 | Depth Perception | The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object. |
| 50.00 | Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. |
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