Your Morrisby Report & FAQs
You will see that your report is very comprehensive and contains 15 parts:
- Introduction
- An outline of your test results
- Your reasoning ability
- Your general abilities
- Your practical abilities
- Your planning style
- How you work with your hands
- Your problem-solving method
- Your learning style
- Your personality
- A comparison of your abilities and personality
- The world of work
- The next step
- Career suggestions
- Further information
In each section before detailing your own results, there is a general explanation about what the section is assessing.
Adults
If you have left full time education you will also have received "The Way Ahead" supplement. This has 11 more sections and some helpful exercises for you to complete.
Careers suggestions
They have been chosen from details of over 550 occupations held on our database and as the title suggests, these are only suggestions! . The 12 occupations in your report have been selected because they best match your abilities, interests and likely qualifications.
Each title has 3 associated areas along side it. These are intended to give you some more ideas. If a particular career does not appear in the report it does not mean it is necessarily unsuitable - discuss it at your report feedback interview! Any further careers suggestions can be considered in the light of your report.
Details of all relevant qualifications, typical entry routes and a brief description of the career area are provided with each job title.
Feedback
Your report contains very valuable information but to get the most out of it you need to discuss the contents with your adviser.
During this session your adviser will not only discuss and explain the contents of your report, but also focus on the careers that match your talents and interests. Advisers can also give you very useful information on each of the careers areas suggested.
Here are some of the more frequently asked questions about reports. Click on the question to see the answer.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Can I show my report to an employer?
- What would happen if I did the tests again?
- I was very anxious at the beginning, do you take this into account?
- I've had a bad time at home recently, will this affect my results?
- I'm colour blind, will this have affected my results?
- My first language isn't English, can this affect my results?
- I'm no good at some things yet my test results say I am, how can this be?
- I didn't finish the tests, does it matter?
- Some of my results go off the end of the page, what does this mean?
- Why do the bars in the diagrams have pointed ends?
- What are norms?
- How do you interpret the results?
- My report says that one (or some) of my results should be 'treated with caution'. What does this mean?
- Do men and women do differently in different tests?
- My results do not match my performance at school.
- My results look 'flat'. What does this mean?
- Why do you ask about exams on the interest questionnaire?
- My report suggests certain careers and the interest questionnaire other things, why don't they agree?
- Can I redo the questionnaire?
- What about things like musical interests?
- Where do the job suggestions come from?
- Is the order of job suggestions important?
- Why have you included things I 'double-crossed' on the questionnaire?
- Do people go into the jobs you suggest?
- Where does your job information come from?
- I'm interested in a job you haven't mentioned, how do I find out about it?
- How many jobs do you have in your database?
