A test by gosh

[sombrefan]

They're abolishing the selective exam that 11yr olds had to sit to get into grammar schools here in Northern Ireland. Anyhow the BBC has put up a sample test to do in 10 minutes and I tried it and got 12/15 (but I did do them in my head). Have a go and see if you can beat my score.

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[wondersheep.livejournal.com]

All the ones I bothered to answer I got right. I had no pen and paper and this is the kind of test that's particularly designed to fuck with someone with my style of maths learning disability. How the hell am I supposed to figure out patterns in numbers when I don't conceptualize numbers as existing in a related and linear sequence?

[rleyser.livejournal.com]

I have the exact same problem Sheep. And also that it takes me more than a minute sometimes to understand what the question is answering.

This is also why I did not as well as everyone expected on SATs.

[wondersheep.livejournal.com]

And yet, I work in accounting. Heh.

[leoff.livejournal.com]

10 out of 15. Missed all three of the "numbers within parenthesis" questions. Just didn't get it.

[iphi1.livejournal.com]

11/15

Could they phrase the questions any more complex? God. This is cruel and unusual punishment for children.

[theloa.livejournal.com]

What score to they need to get to pass?

[simonf.livejournal.com]

Good question, I really don't know but it caused misery for families across the country.

[deannab.livejournal.com]

No pen, no paper. Never even heard of an 11-plus before. Hubby wakes up when I've got two sections left to go, tries to ask me something and gets all pissed when I blow him off, and turns the TV on extra loud. 1;48 still left on the timer.

"Top of the class!
You've scored 15 out of 15."

Whew.