Best test ?

[Pringles]

I reckon I had this as an exercise in my spanish class 5 years ago and only 1 managed to do the test properly

[taha]

I had the same exam in Maths in uni at the start of the year , there were a huge amount of easy questions based on high-school / first / second year uni maths , so people thought that would be easy and were delighted ! As there were a lot of exercises ( like studying functions and complex numbers ) , they were focused on doing them and they didn't have time to see the last bit lol !  Needless to say 90% failed the exam lol

[Alves]

I did the same test on my 7th grade.

[P o p a y]

If I did this test, I am 100% sure I would have been yelling "I am the leader in following instructions" like an idiot

[Rawrplus]

Quite funny how everybody claims they had this test after it reached the frontpage of 9gag.

[Fisu]

4TH grade.

[taha]

Quite funny how everybody claims they had this test after it reached the frontpage of 9gag.

it's quite popular as a test , i don't know how come you never passed ?
also 9gag ? XD are you serious ? who even checks that nowadays ?

[Alves]

Quite funny how everybody claims they had this test after it reached the frontpage of 9gag.

Never had this test? I remember doing it, it was a way to show everyone that most students don't read the exams carefully.

[Rawrplus]

Quite funny how everybody claims they had this test after it reached the frontpage of 9gag.

Never had this test? I remember doing it, it was a way to show everyone that most students don't read the exams carefully.

I don't see how it showcases most students don't read exams carefully - it showcases the fact some students prefer to tackle issues chronologically (in order) rather than focus on multiple things - and there's nothing wrong with that. The tests are built in a way, where we are focusing only on one question each and never once you will face a situation during a test where you'd wish you read all the questions before beginning the test. It is a stupid test, that is a cheap educational trick which will quite surely almost everybody fall for, because it's a habit to go through questions 1 by 1 and in fact, it's only logical to do so. You're wasting your precious time, especially during a serious test by ruining your attention span by focusing on too many things at once - by actually doing what the test suggests, you'd be more suspect to incorrect answers due to lack of focus, which ironically is what the test pretends to fight against.

[SilverQuick]

People who have lack of concentration would fall for this test.

[Fisu]

People who have lack of concentration would fall for this test.

In our class only one one didnt fall for it, while the rest of us went outside and run around the football field.

[Alves]

I think that's not the point. It's not about focusing on multiple things, it's about interpretation and knowing what you've to do in each question. If you immediately start writting without even finish reading the question, what are the odds of actually giving the exact answer? You can do lots of steps which may or may not be needed at all and in the meantime you've wasted precious time.

To me this tests show how you can easily fail, not by ignorance but by being eager to tackle one question in order to get to the next one. The problem is that most students mechanise certain problems in a way that they immediately start writting before finish reading the 1st sentence of the problem.
Sometimes it's simple to read the whole test before start answering it.

[Rawrplus]

I think that's not the point. It's not about focusing on multiple things, it's about interpretation and knowing what you've to do in each question. If you immediately start writting without even finish reading the question, what are the odds of actually giving the exact answer? You can do lots of steps which may or may not be needed at all and in the meantime you've wasted precious time.

To me this tests show how you can easily fail, not by ignorance but by being eager to tackle one question in order to get to the next one. The problem is that most students mechanise certain problems in a way that they immediately start writting before finish reading the 1st sentence of the problem.
Sometimes it's simple to read the whole test before start answering it.

I would be completely okay with it, if this was a matter of one long question instead of 20 short ones - if it was a long question and not to do certain things would be written somewhere inbetween or towards the end it could showcase if students are too eager to pull the trigger, this however only showcases that if you give somebody a numerically ordered list of x objectives, people will most likely do them chornoligically.

[SilverQuick]

People who have lack of concentration would fall for this test.

In our class only one one didnt fall for it, while the rest of us went outside and run around the football field.

That's why understanding a question is half an answer.