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saagarjha ◴[] No.41909496[source]
I’m curious if anyone has the solutions to these.
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phildenhoff ◴[] No.41909528[source]
A solution is available here: https://mrsjcoonan.weebly.com/uploads/2/3/6/2/23625108/liter...

But, my understanding is that the test is purposefully opaque, so that any answer can be considered “wrong”, at the discretion of whoever’s running the test.

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kelnos ◴[] No.41909554[source]
Their answer to #14 is wrong. The first part ("draw a line under the first letter after 'h'") is done correctly, with a line under "i", but the second part ("draw a line through the second letter after "j") is wrong. They should have drawn the line through "l", but they drew it through "m".

At first I thought "oh, they're just using a slightly different, but perhaps reasonable, meaning of "second letter after". But if that's the case, then they used a different meaning of "first letter after" for the first part.

#16 is also wrong: it calls for a black circle overlapping the left corner of a triangle, but they drew it overlapping the right corner.

And for #25, they wrote it out, but all of it did not fit on the line, and did not write the terminating ":" in the text, so that's technically incorrect too. (And it's debatable whether or not they were supposed to write out the text that's inside the triangle, or the "gotcha" of writing out the text in the question.)

I love that they gave up for the last two questions. I imagine most people who were forced to take that test did so too, assuming they even made it that far in the allotted time.

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1. nucleardog ◴[] No.41941828[source]
They're basically all wrong, but that's the point. Essentially every one of these has another plausible interpretation where the answer given is incorrect. The rest you can just nitpick to death.

> 26. In the third square below, write the second letter of the fourth word.

Bzzzt. Answer was "h", it's the second letter of "the fourth word".

> 18. Look at the line of numbers below, and place on the blank, the number that should come next. 3 6 9 \_ 15

We said the number that should come _next_. You were meant to write 18.

> 9. Draw a line through the two letters below that come last in the alphabet.

We said to draw _a_ line. You drew two lines.

> 7. Above the letter X make a small cross.

We said above, yours is within the X.