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The paper on Psychological Testing and Statistics is an elaborate subject covering all the details of the ways, procedures and methodologies of psychological testing. It is the psychometric approach to the testing schemes that judges the conditions empirically and statistically for greater accuracy and quantification. Hence the topics are related to the statistical measures involved in quantification and measurement in the field of psychology. The paper thus encompasses the principles of test construction and measurement of intelligence, aptitude, achievement, personality and research methodology. It ensures a concrete introduction on the topic, history and past contributions, levels and types, properties of the scales, general problems, sources of errors in assessment, meaning and purpose of the methodology, guidelines for proper analysis and ethical issues in testing. Statistical implementation of validity and reliability is theoretically instructed. Tests here include speed and power tests too. It also includes techniques of observation and data collection, sampling and statistical analyses.