Stanford-Binet test
Mar. 21st, 2015 01:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trickykittyThis test seemed ridiculously easy to me.
Much the same as the spatial reasoning section of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills that I took back in junior high (~age 15).
There was one question that had pictures of objects. I recall being able to make out a screwdriver and a thing I first thought was a spoon but then later decided was a shovel. With that I deduced the top image must be a saw, but the second and third images eluded me, so I pretended the second was a pen and the third I gave up on completely. I had to guess for that question. I didn't like that I had to guess on one of the questions.
It struck me as odd that the bell curve chart presented with the final score only goes to 145, but the test scores up to 160.
I was also annoyed by the lack of a comma in the first sentence of the main page before starting the test and a couple typos I found in the test. It reminds me of the "Apptitude Test" I have an ancient copy of that basically contains logical riddles, such as:
"Some months have 30 days and some have 31. How many have 28?"
"You're in a house with four south-facing walls when a bear walks by the window. What color is the bear?" (A more correct question would be, "What color does the bear's fur appear to be?")
"Do they have 4th of July in England?" (Obviously, this test was written for Americans.)
The last question of the test is, "What word is misspelled on this test?"
Much the same as the spatial reasoning section of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills that I took back in junior high (~age 15).
There was one question that had pictures of objects. I recall being able to make out a screwdriver and a thing I first thought was a spoon but then later decided was a shovel. With that I deduced the top image must be a saw, but the second and third images eluded me, so I pretended the second was a pen and the third I gave up on completely. I had to guess for that question. I didn't like that I had to guess on one of the questions.
It struck me as odd that the bell curve chart presented with the final score only goes to 145, but the test scores up to 160.
I was also annoyed by the lack of a comma in the first sentence of the main page before starting the test and a couple typos I found in the test. It reminds me of the "Apptitude Test" I have an ancient copy of that basically contains logical riddles, such as:
"Some months have 30 days and some have 31. How many have 28?"
"You're in a house with four south-facing walls when a bear walks by the window. What color is the bear?" (A more correct question would be, "What color does the bear's fur appear to be?")
"Do they have 4th of July in England?" (Obviously, this test was written for Americans.)
The last question of the test is, "What word is misspelled on this test?"
