In the education the testing is an attempt to measure a person's intelligence, knowledge or other type of characteristics through a systematic way as well as there are various kinds of tests also. Especially the teachers are given the tests to discover the learning type of abilities of their students and they also see how much the students have learned to the particular subject. However the tests are designed into one of the several kinds such as the aptitude and interest test, learning ability, personality and learning achievement. Even the ETS (educational testing service) is also developed in various standardized tests and administer tests. Standardized tests are those tests which is scored and administered in a consistent manner and administer tests are the examples of TOEFL and GRE internationally. All these kinds are mentioned below.

 Learning achievement
In the achievement test, they are always tried to measure about how much they have individually learned related to the particular subject and there are basically, two types of test such as criterion-referenced and norm referenced. In the criterion-referenced each and every performance of the person's basically compared with the criterion or you can say the predetermined standard whereas in the norm-referenced each performance of the person's is basically compared with those of others who especially took the test.

 Aptitude and interest test
The aptitude and interest tests are generally revealed through the preferences for the various activities. Interest tests are also called as interest inventors. Such kind of persons has an aptitude for the mechanical type of work and it is fairly a good chance of the succeeding at it.

 Learning ability
The learning type of ability tests generally includes the standard set of questions or tasks. But it does not measure how the person is bright. In addition the educators used the intelligence and mental type of terms which is simply to describe a person's ability to solve a various kinds of problems which is typically happened in the school work.

 Personality
Generally, the personality tests are attempted to measure the individual type of personal traits for the scientifically as well as the some standardized personality tests consist with the list of personal questions which is requiring the yes or no type of answers.

In modern times, the education has become an asset that must always seek to beautify as an individual. In case the students are pursue in the higher studies, and then they undertake a common type of entrance tests that is graduate record examination (GRE). This test is conducted to check the performances of the candidates and check the pursuing type of eligibility for the master's or Ph.D. programme. Educational testing service is the largest world's private type of educational testing and measurement organization which is operating on an annual budget of approximately $1.1 billion in 2007 on a proforma basis. ETS is also developed in various standardized tests especially, in the United States for higher education and K-12 as well as they also take the administer type of tests like GRE and TOEFL internationally. In such way the tests are generally based on the questions based conditions especially for scoring act, central and the interpretations are consistent.