Online IQ Test

[conuly]

Which of these is not like the others?

Apple
Lime
Orange
Tomato


Well, let's see. The apple is the only fruit with a core, the tomato is the only berry, the lime is the only fruit that's not roughly spherical, the orange is the only fruit without any green on it (no leaves attatched) in the picture. The tomato is the only fruit that is typically used as a vegetable, and it is also the only one that is made of a primary color (the apple is green). The lime is the only fruit without a visible shine, and the only one with a monosyllabic name. The tomato lacks an "e" in its name. I could go on, but I'm bored now.

The whole test is most fucked up. My mom got a Mensa puzzle book once, and I spent a good part of a day noting all the places where, really, their answer was wrong/incomplete because there was more than one right answer to the question. That was fun, if a bit disheartening. Do only conformists join Mensa?

Comments

[eofs.livejournal.com]

I still can't get over the fact that in your final years of school you still have *multiple choice* It just... I genuinely find it beyond belief. Cheese would be the better person to ask (having just gone through them himself) but I'm pretty certain we don't even get multiple choice questions in the SATs at 14.

Heck, I can't even get past the idea of having questions that could have an answer that could be multiple choice at that age. Even in a GCSE history paper that had to be appropriate for everyone from an A* to a failing grade, the smallest mark question was the single 2 mark at the start of each section.

My friend's cousin went to study in the US for a year after finishing his A Levels and did the senior year of high school. Apparently he enjoyed thoroughly taking multiple choice tests after the experience of A Levels ;0)

[conuly]

Poor you.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Poor us? How poor us?

[conuly]

All those hard tests!

[eofs.livejournal.com]

*Laughs* I really don't mind that much. They're in the past now *pats examless course* You get used to them after a while though. In my equivalent of high school I sat...

 - 18 written, 1 oral (French) and 3 practical exams (Expressive Arts - not strictly full practical, they were about half practical, half written) for my GCSEs (these were mostly in the June exam period of my 'sophomore' year, though the oral was a couple of months earlier, the x-arts exams were spread through the year (so we were just constantly examined, fun) and two of the humanities exams had been taken earlier in the year.)

 - 12 written and one practical (full length play in drama) for AS Levels (all in the May-June of my freshman year.)

 - 11 written and two practical (drama again) for my A Levels (actually, three of them were for an AS in General Studies but ssh :0P ) All the written exams bar one were in June of Senior year - that one I took in January (alongside a retake of one of my AS maths exams, which I haven't counted in these counts.) One practical exam was November, the other May.

In addition, my GCSEs required 18 pieces of coursework (investigations, extended essays and the like,) my AS Levels only 3 pieces and my A Levels again just three (3k words in history, 2.5k in English and an investigation for human biology.)

These are the official government exams of course, I couldn't even hazard a guess at how many internal tests I took. And you can add at least one mock exam for most of the exams taken, though not all.

So yeah, you really do get used to exams after a while ;0) Not that I object to doing a uni course without exams though :0P Only 5-6000 words worth of written work to hand in left this year, wheeeeee (plus a 5 minute tv drama and an as yet unspecified number of items with an arts focus ;0)

La-la-la-la-la, watch me ramble :0)

[strangelette.livejournal.com]

There have been many many days when I wanted to start a revolt because I was still getting multiple choice questions as a 4th year univserity student.

That's probably also because, for all of the reasons outlined, they are my most hated of questions.