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The National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC) is an assessment-based credential comprised of the Applied Math, Graphic Literacy, and Workplace Documents assessments. It is a job skills assessment system that helps employers select, hire, train, develop, and retain a high-performance workforce. It also assists workers in better understanding their foundational skill levels and may assist them in finding employment or training. The multiple-choice assessments measure foundational domains that are required for success in a wide variety of current jobs. The WorkKeys cognitive assessments are criterion-referenced assessments. Unlike the more commonly used norm-referenced assessments, WorkKeys test scores are not determined by the relationship of an examinee’s score to other examinees within a norm group. In WorkKeys, examinees are measured in terms of their ability to demonstrate competency in identified skill sets. As a result, an individual’s scores indicate the skills an examinee demonstrates in a given area or areas.