A guide to take the GEO & DBSP’s
Entrepreneurial Assessment Tests
Go to http://edu.geo.partners
What will you see first?
• Once you click on http://edu.geo.partners, you will see this
screen
It may not look exactly like this because the picture may be different, but the top blue block
will always be the same.
What will you need to do first?
• First of all you need to create an account so that you can log
onto the system. To do this click on the “Log in button”
First things first, you will need to pay for the
course.
• To be taken to this page, click on ‘web store’ button
You will see this page come up
• Click on the picture or on the words “Purchase Assessments”
On this page click the “Buy Now” button next to the heading that says
“Entrepreneurial Assessment – ZA” YOU MUST SELECT THIS ONE AND
NOT THE ONE ABOVE.
On this page, you have 2 payment options:
Option 1 = pay with your credit card. In this case click
“Checkout”
Option 2 = pay with a voucher. You can get a voucher
from the person that told you about this test.
If paying with a voucher….
The Entrepreneurial Assessment Test costs R100
if you “pay” with a voucher. Once you have paid
you will receive a voucher. Put your voucher into
this block and then hit “Checkout:
Now you need to register yourself on the
system. Click on the “Create an account” button
You will need to fill in your details in the blocks
provided – BOTH the Account Details and Contact
Details. Hint = Write your password down!
In the “Contact Details” section the first thing to do is to
change country. You see it says “UNITED STATES”. Change
this to “SOUTH AFRICA”. This will change the blocks you
need to fill in slightly – look at the “State/Region” block
on the right. In this block
fill in your province
Block put
abbreviation. So for Gauteng this will be “GP”. For
KwaZulu Natal, this will be “KZN”
Once you have filled in ALL your details, press
“Create Account”
The system
will now send
you an e-mail
that looks like
this. It is
ABSOLUTELY
VITAL that
you CLICK ON
THE LINK in
the e-mail
The link in the e-mail, will take you back to this page
here. Now log in with your user name and password
you created when registering.
You will then see this page come up …
FIRST before doing
anything, you will
need to check you are
in the correct place on
the system. Click the
“ENGLISH (EN) button
in the blue block on
the top of your screen
next to the word
“Organization”. A drop
down menu will
appear. Make sure you
select “ENGLISH (ENZA)
Now click on the words that say “DBSP
ENTREPRENEURIAL ASSESSMENTS …”
This will bring up the following page….
Which you will need to read through very carefully
This is the main page that every part of this
assessment comes back to.
You will notice that there are 7 elements on this page:
1) Step 1 = The DBSP and GEO consent agreement form
2) Step 2 = A set of instructions
3) Questionnaire # 1 – To assess your previous
experience
4) Questionnaire # 2 – To assess your entrepreneurial
inclination
5) Questionnaire # 3 – To assess your risk taking ability
6) Questionnair4 # 4 – To assess your problem solving
ability
7) Get your results here.
I will now deal with each of these separately
Step 1 = The DBSP and GEO consent agreement
form
YOU HAVE TO AGREE TO WHAT IS WRITTEN IN THIS DOCUMENT OR ELSE YOU WILL
NOT BE ABLE TO PROCEED.
Once you click on the agreement, you will see this….
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the
“Attempt quiz now” button, even though it is not a quiz at all.
(Sorry, we cannot change the name of the button)
This is what will come up next
Click on the “Start attempt” button
You will see this screen. Here you need to do 2 things:
1) Click the “I agree to abide by this document” button
2) Once done, click the “Next”button
This is what you will see. Click the “Submit all and
finish” button.
This is what you will then see. Click the “Submit all and
finish button”
Do not be surprised when this screen pops up again,
just scroll down to the bottom and ….
You will see
this.
Now click
on the
“Back to
the course”
button.
You will now be back to this WELCOME screen
You can now go to STEP 2 – Read the instructions
although this is not a necessary step.
Once you have done all of this, you are ready to take
your first questionnaire. Scroll down until you see
Questionnaire # 1. Click on it
This will take you back to the WELCOME page….
Scroll down until you get to Questionnaire # 1
again
Once you scroll to
Questionnaire # 1 again,
click on this block
This is the screen that will come up. Press the
“Attempt quiz now” button
Press “Start attempt”
The first question will be displayed. 1) Read the question and
all the possible answers, then 2) click on the answer that best
suits you, you will see the circle gets coloured in. Once you
have done this, 3) click “Next”
1.
2.
3.
NOTE: that some questions require more than 1 answer. You
can identify these questions in 2 ways: 1) There is wording to
say “You can select multiple answers” and 2) The selection
areas are square and not round.
1.
2.
Navigation – you can see where you are in the process and
also see if you have missed out any questions from the
convenient panel to the one side of the questions. When the
blocks are grey they have been answered, white for
unanswered. You can click on any of the blocks to move
directly to that question.
In the example on the left question
56 and 64 remain unanswered.
Hint: If I were to go to question 56
and answer it, then hit the “Next”
button the system will take me to
Q 57, then Q 58 and so on. So after
answering Q 56, place your cursor
directly on Q 80 and click. This will
save you time.
Once you have answered the last question in the range and
you hit the ‘Next’ button you will see the following pop up.
As you scan through the numbers with the “Answer saved” next to them, if you have missed
out a question, it will say “Not yet answered” and you can then go back and answer these.
At the bottom of this page you will see 2 blocks. If you have
not answered all the questions, click on the “Return to
Attempt” button. Once all the questions have been answered,
hit the “Submit all and finish” button.
When you hit the “Submit all and finish” You will see the
following pop up …
Click on this confirmation “Submit all and finish” button
The system will then show you your score for the section you have just
completed. It will show you 1) Your score. 2) a feedback comment. 3)
your final grade out of … Finally there is a button you need to press 4)
“Back to the course”
2.
1.
3.
4.
You will now find yourself on the WELCOME screen again. Scroll down until
you see the questionnaires. Select the next one and click on the actual
bold writing.
Once you have clicked on it, you will see the actual icon pop up where you
can click to take the next questionnaire. This will open up the page with the
questions and then you just answer the questions as has been explained
above.
The icon looks like this
Repeat the process until you have done all 4 of the assessment questionnaires. Once
done, you will see that after questionnaire 4 there is a block that says “GET YOUR
RESULTS HERE”. Inside this block there is some writing in italics and underlined that
says “Cumulative score” Click on these words.
There are various things on this page: On the right of the questionnaire titles you will find:
1) the score you got for each section. 2) Out of how much, 3) Your percentage, 4) a
comment about each section, 5) Your overall score, 6) Your overall percentage. 7) A
comment about your level of entrepreneurial inclination.
1.
3.
4.
2.
5.
7.
6.
ENJOY TAKING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL
ASSESSMENT TEST!
Oh yes, and by the way, if you get stuck at any stage, either
phone the person that introduced you to the test, or…
You will see that on each
page in the test, there is a
block that looks like this.
Click on the block and it
sends a message through
to our help desk and
someone will get back to you!