Assess thyself

[CarpCharacin]

If you want a  real general knowledge test, take an old form of the MAT!
https://miller-analogies-test.netlify.app/
While all of the items are analogies, the content of those analogies is heavily GK-based. I rushed (spent something like 15 minutes) through it a long time ago and did a massive amount of guessing and ended up getting like 67 out of the 100 questions correct, lol
It's brutal

 

[Kiki]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwander/if-you-fail-this-general-knowledge-quiz-you-might
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Uhhh...yeah...I totally didn't take that one.

Going to now.

 

[Kiki]

Uhhh...yeah...I totally didn't take that one.

Going to now.

Oh boy.

 

[electrycmonk]

Well this has been a fruitfully engaged topic outta the blue….

 

[Kiki]

If you want a  real general knowledge test, take an old form of the MAT!
https://miller-analogies-test.netlify.app/
While all of the items are analogies, the content of those analogies is heavily GK-based. I rushed (spent something like 15 minutes) through it a long time ago and did a massive amount of guessing and ended up getting like 67 out of the 100 questions correct, lol
It's brutal

I tried...I quit after guessing the first 6.

 

[CarpCharacin]

I tried...I quit after guessing the first 6.

At least the percentiles are relatively generous, I think 67/100 appeared to be around 90-95 relative to the graduate school bound population (since it's a graduate school admission test) so the gen. pop. percentile should be somewhat higher, and I was 17 when I did it. But it really does feel like I just got lucky with guesses there; I have no clue what a lot of the stuff referenced is. It's definitely far from my favorite test, as it seems like extra reading / concerted exploration of a bunch of academic topics would required to even be exposed to a lot of the information that the test demands.

 

[electrycmonk]

At least the percentiles are relatively generous, I think 67/100 appeared to be around 90-95 relative to the graduate school bound population (since it's a graduate school admission test) so the gen. pop. percentile should be somewhat higher, and I was 17 when I did it. But it really does feel like I just got lucky with guesses there; I have no clue what a lot of the stuff referenced is. It's definitely far from my favorite test, as it seems like extra reading / concerted exploration of a bunch of academic topics would required to even be exposed to a lot of the information that the test demands.

Okay, now… I’m curious and just might dive into that one….

 

[CarpCharacin]

Okay, now… I’m curious and just might dive into that one….

It's interesting because it has an extremely high ceiling, supposedly something like +4 to +5 standard deviations if I'm not mistaken.

 

[electrycmonk]

It's interesting because it has an extremely high ceiling, supposedly something like +4 to +5 standard deviations if I'm not mistaken.

/does a sideways glance double take

“+4 or +5”??? So, any clue what kinda of graph will that look like?

 

[electrycmonk]

Are you suggesting something akin to the Fujita scale?