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I thought I was moving sufficiently fast enough but only got 35 out of 36. Probably spent too much time on actual math vs estimates especially on the problems that weren’t like single digit multiplication.
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- Ran out of time on one of the more in-depth math questions and misclicked another.
FWIW I’ve never felt all that smart, but my brain is pretty well wired for this test. I’ve always been good at doing a bunch of simple tasks pretty quickly. I was a good test-taker in school. I sort of suck at fast-twitch video games and am not all that great at Madden (which is as close as I’ve come to playing QB). This test definitely tells you something about how your brain works, but I’m not sure how well it relates to playing NFL QB.
Matt Stafford, who got a 38 on this test, can do human calculator levels of complex multiplication in his head pretty quickly. I’m not sure how much of that is natural ability vs. a specific skill he practiced, but it’s pretty damn impressive.
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A few of the questions (like the cube ones) I didn’t even bother trying because I would’ve been there forever and run out of time as a result. I actually ended up having a minute and a half left at the end. The timer really pushes you hard.
Probably would’ve helped to have a pen/paper. While I got most of the math questions right without much thought, some I guessed because I was afraid of running out of time.
Anyway, Wonderlics don’t mean shit for a bunch of positions. It seems to have a more significant connection to success for quarterbacks though.
Think we have to keep in mind for Trump and Biden that they’re old af. Old people aren’t quite that quick and it’d take longer for them just to click on the right answer let alone get it. I say Biden maxes out at 25. Stable genius probably makes it into the teens but a single digit score is not out of the question. He’d run out of patience after a few minutes and complain about the test being fake news.
lol - I did Mathcounts, too. I think I was in 8th grade?
My team did well in the southeastern WI competition and I was in 9th place overall. Top 10 got to do a heads-up competition at the front of the auditorium. Best of three, instructor put a problem on the overhead projector (yes, the kind that you use the plastic sheet with or write on with dry erase markers). Students figure it out, buzz in, and answer.
Went ladder-style, so it started with 10th vs 9th. Winner takes on the 8th place kid. Thus, I’m up first.
The other kid buzzed in before me and got the first question right. Do or die for me now, but I had a strategy. I was going to buzz in juuuust before I was done with the problem, knowing the teacher would give me a few seconds to answer. And I did just that! Unfortunately, I didn’t finish the problem. Other kid got to finish and kicked my ass. 9th place it is. But that was cool!
Afterward, a teacher from a different school asked if I would be on his team to compete at state. Yes! I felt so cool because I was the only one from my school he asked. But oh shit, when we got to the state competition, it was stereotypical nerd central. I was not cool and was the coolest kid there. I think I came in like 68th out of 80 or some shit.
My wife wears my Mathcounts shirt to bed.
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- Enjoy!
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Fellow former Mathcounts competitor here. Was on the school team in 8th grade. Our team got to a regional (or was it state I’m not sure) tournament but we got beat. One of our team members, however, was a math prodigy and made it to nationals as part of the Pennsylvania team. Didn’t win but that was the last time anybody at my school ever saw him again.
36 out of 38, same.
Definitely didn’t approach it GTO. Having the questions on paper in front of me to scan quickly instead of clicking thru would’ve been different. I don’t know how it’s presented to the prospects.
- Meh. Should have run a timer and started mashing buttons at the end. No way Trump scores any more than 15 on this.
Got 38 but guessed on last 5-6 questions because there was less than 30 seconds left.
How the hell did Tua get 13? Even if you guess on every question you can get a higher score.
I think GTO would be to take a quick educated guess at the more complex math problems in order to allow you to see all 50 questions. You have like 14.5 seconds/question, so if you get to 20 seconds on one you should just guess and move on.
Also, impressive scores itt. Not at all surprised. I’ve often explained UP as a forum full of super smart and logical people.
I mean… it’s basically a bunch of poker pro’s and ex poker pro’s right? What % of poker players actually win long term?
What I’m trying to say is that this group was selected super specifically. I’m guessing the % of us who have ADHD is pretty high as well. (Almost every actual poker pro I’ve ever known had ADHD, no idea why) Lots of STEM/econ types in here too probably.
The wonderlic seems targeted straight at the ability to process simple information quickly. That would seem to have a multitabling online poker pro squarely in the sights.
I honestly wasn’t super impressed by the test as a measurement of anything super useful in the real world. If anything that kind of fast twitch thinking is something I have to try to tune down most of the time. One of my biggest flaws is a tendency to jump to conclusions and get caught out of position.
I used to describe a different place that way.
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They key to doing multiple choice math like this super fast is to not try to solve it (unless super easy) but look at the answers and eliminate the wrong ones. Often you can immediately eliminate all but two (sometimes even all but one) and then just test each one left. Only one you had to solve was the one with the “none” option.
Some of us have a tendency to stare down our first read.
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I mean it used to be right?
Seems rhetorical, but: TRUE.
I taught GMAT classes and tutored for Kaplan for a short time (less than a year?) and one of the most common questions students asked when it came to math was, “What’s the right way to do this problem?”
My answer was: “Whichever way gets you the correct answer the fastest.”
For me, that was usually doing the math straight-up. But you’re right, for lots of people, a great way to do things is to eliminate one or two obvious wrong answers within the first couple seconds. I’ve been starting to show my 7th grader tricks like this. Working backwards, filling in an answer choice into the problem, is another reliable method, especially when combined with process of elimination.
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Yea that’s what I did. The one question that was something like 6 people in 83 days, how many would 5 take? You can easily eliminate and then make an educated guess in 2 seconds instead of doing the math.
I ended up with 38 but only answered like 44 with some button mashing at the end. I feel like I would have done a lot better 20 or 30 years ago.
Also, there was a countdown timer running in my browser window, but it was slightly out of frame (had to scroll up a little to see it). YMMV
Yeah. I lolligagged my way to 35/40 because I didn’t realize it was there until like… Q30? But I doubt I could do better than 40 even if I was trying to be more efficient. Fucking math…