The Truth About Assesment Tests !!

What is the deal with assesment tests on online applications? Why do we have to take them? They seem to ask the same questons over and over again but in different forms. What are you like as a person, how you were in school, are you clean, are you tidy, do you get along well with others, are you a team member or do you work best alone? Between 80-180 questions of the same old tired question reworded. It makes one head spin and it's easily frustrating. However, that is what gets you hired. See, the employment agencies or job placement services won't tell you that. I don't know why. Is it some deep dark secret. That test that you hate taking at the end of the application is what the employer is looking at.  Not your experience. Not your qualifications and not your references. I overheard a gentleman talking to his friends while they were job hunting online. He was telling them how he hadn't had a job in 2 years. He took the assesment test, passed it and got a phone call from the employer. Overhearing, he said if you're in the 10% percent to pass the test, you are one of the first they will call. So, for those of you who can't find a job and apply online, now you know why. I know it's very unfair. It down right sucks!! However, that is how it is. I myself have wondered how does one pass an assesment test? Is there a way to cheat on one? I'm not trying to encourage my fellow job seeking brethren. I'm simply saying that employers should be more honest on why passing the test matters and future employees should learn how to better master an assesment test better.