Introduction
The Tertiary Study Choices product was meticulously designed by esteemed educational psychologist Dr. Lanette Hattingh. It empowers learners in grade 10,11 or 12 to make informed, data-driven decisions regarding their future careers and study choices.
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
The Learner's Journey
Reasoning Ability
Cognitive skills and logic assessments.
Career Interest Exploration
Mapping passions to professional pathways, career areas, career fields and ultimatley careers.
Reasoning Ability
Focused on an understanding of words, numbers, and patterns. These quizzes help learners uncover their unique thinking process and identify career fields that align perfectly with their cognitive abilities.
The Three Dimensions
Words
Verbal Reasoning
Numbers
Numerical Reasoning
Patterns
Non-verbal Reasoning
Verbal Reasoning
Verbal reasoning tests how well you understand and work with written information. It looks at your reading, vocabulary, and how you find links or make sense of ideas. These skills help you think clearly, solve problems, and communicate better at school and in future careers.
Numerical Reasoning
Numerical reasoning tests how well you work with numbers and use maths to solve problems. It includes reading data, doing calculations, finding patterns, and understanding how numbers relate. These skills are useful for logical thinking and careers like finance, engineering, and science.
Non-verbal Reasoning
Non-verbal reasoning tests how well you solve problems by using pictures and patterns instead of words. It involves spotting shapes, sequences, and relationships in diagrams or designs. These skills help you think logically and are useful in careers like engineering, design, and technology.
Career Interest Exploration
The 2 careers detailed below were identified using the Career Interests Explorer. Because this process is intrinsically linked to the learner's reasoning scores, their results directly determined which career pathways were accessible during exploration.
Furthermore, the targeted careers were strictly narrowed and validated against the learner's actual school subjects.
Review the World of Work for a deeper contextual understanding.
🌍 Explore World of WorkThe Explorer Process
Pathway Selection
The learner explored career paths and selected Vocational - Foundation Pathway.
Interest Area Selection
Within their chosen pathway, they chose 2 Areas.
Career Field Selection
Finally, they drilled down into specific clusters, finalizing the 3 Fields.
Journey Insights
This Learner Journey Report is more than just test scores.
Our system quietly watched how the learner engaged with every single activity to build a truly honest picture of their natural strengths, their genuine interests, and the safest path forward for their future.
The Analytical Journey
Reasoning Quizzes
We measured how long they spent on each question to see their true natural ability instead of just a final test score.
Career Exploration
We tracked which videos they watched and how deeply they drilled into the fine print of specific jobs to find their True North.
Aspirational Alignment
We monitored when they attempted to select careers requiring higher academic metrics than they achieved, mapping their aspiration gaps.
Behavioral Synthesis
We combined their decisiveness, their hesitations, and the specific questions they asked during exploration to build a final, objective behavioral profile.
🎯 Engagement & Effort
- Both reasoning assessments were completed in under half a minute each — a fraction of the time allowed — and neither produced any answer changes, which together suggest the learner moved through the questions without genuinely engaging with them, making the scores an unreliable reflection of actual ability.
- The career exploration exercise shows a similar pattern: the fields selected span very different worlds, yet no career descriptions were explored in depth, suggesting the selections were made quickly rather than through genuine curiosity or comparison.
🔗 Alignment & Fit
- Because both the assessments and the career selections were completed with minimal time and no visible deliberation, there is currently no meaningful link between what the learner performed and where they indicated interest — the two simply do not connect in a reliable way yet.
📊 Confidence Level
- Across both assessments and the career exercise, the behavioral signals consistently point to low engagement rather than low ability, meaning these results are best treated as an incomplete starting point rather than an accurate picture of the learner's true strengths or direction.