Word Association Test is not a sentence making test, otherwise, it would have been named so. In WAT or Word Association Test, the aspirants are given some words and they have to evaluate the qualities or ideas that are associated with the given word.
There is nothing ‘negative’ in this world. It is just your perception that makes you see things the way you want it to be. While attempting the test, the words and ideas that spring to your mind are more important that the expression itself. Every word in the WAT is designed to invoke some feeling or thought in the reader. The reader goes beyond the word and will find many relations to the word from different areas and fields.
Getting the idea from a particular field and writing it down is the main objective of the WAT. The test is designed to help the analyzer find the depth or level of the aspirant’s thinking.
The idea behind this test is, if you are capable of appreciating the word and its meaning, then your projection of the word will also fall short of an acceptable level.
Let’s see an example
Word: Cooperation
Response: Good cooperation between teammates is vital to the success of a company
Interpretation: Here the word was cooperation and your response to it was about teamwork. This shows that you go above and beyond the word. You have also associated your team with success, which may give you extra points in the eyes of the assessor.
