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[prosodic]

WTF? I just took the assessment tests for potential new job and first of all, how is a warm-up test only one question? And how do they honestly expect me to do 20 fairly complex math problems in 8 minutes? I think I really screwed up that part. Doesn't help that I am a bundle of nerves today.

The reasoning portion was at least more...reasonable. Fifteen questions and five minutes for that, but I'm really better at that type of test. I answered all but 3 of the questions in the allotted time.

Oh...I really don't want to put all my eggs in one basket. Please let something else come along too, so I don't have to pin all my hopes on just one job interview.

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[dimwit68.livejournal.com]

They don't expect you to answer all the questions. I did a paper-based one recently and got within the top 3% although I didn't answer all the questions.

They were all very easy; just a lot of them to do in the time available.

[prosodic.livejournal.com]

These were a bit more complicated...not hard to do if you have the time to do them, but if you have to do as many as you can in an 8 minute time period, they are too hard for that.

And they penalize you for guessing. Which I did on a few of them until I realized that you can skip them without answering.

I always suck at these things. I've never been good at standardized tests either.