At the beginning of high school, Lucas was given a personality test that generated a personality profile using 4 trait dichotomies that led to 16 possible combinations. The results were supposed to help him decide which career path he should pursue. Now that he is in college, he retakes the same test, but receives different results, which makes him question the reliability of this test. Lucas was MOST likely given the:

The career tests use the qualities and strengths, as well as the weaknesses, to determine the professions that best fit the profile of the respondent. These tests are designed to suggest to the participant, according to their personality, in which professional areas they could perform better.

At the beginning of his high school, Lucas surely possessed certain qualities that focused him on certain types of careers. However, these strengths or qualities may have changed in the course of his high school and even in college, orienting him to another professional area. This process does not detract the test he took; on the contrary, it reflects the transformation of Lucas during his process of growth and normal formation of all young people during this stage of life. That is why it is not a reason to question the reliability of the test the fact that it has had two different results in such a long period of time.