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Guessing Your Education Background
06-26-2017, 05:02 PM
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Guessing Your Education Background
I'm always reluctant to try on-line quizzes but once in a while, it can be fun. This one purports to guess your educational background. While it's a bit long, the questions are interesting and it wasn't all advertising. As I went through, I had so many wrong answers that I figured they'd put me in kindergarten. When it was finished, I was almost afraid to look, but was happily surprised with the results. It was spot on.
Ya don't have to divulge your rating, but if you need a little brain stimulation to break the boredom, this might be the answer.
Can We Guess Your Highest Education Level? - Offbeat
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06-26-2017, 05:29 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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It over estimated my education, told me I was a PhD. Sorry, just a BS.
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06-26-2017, 05:50 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Albuquerque
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Be forewarned that this is a long quiz with 80? questions or more. After flubbing the number of chambers in a heart and what famous play featured Ophelia (and I took Shakespearean Tragedies in college), I was sure that I would not make college graduate but things got better. The quiz also overestimated my education background.
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06-26-2017, 05:53 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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I made it to question 39 or so before my tablet, which reloaded on most questions, gave up and wouldn't continue on the site. I'm sure it would have put me very high 
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06-26-2017, 05:55 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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I love quizzes! Despite making some silly errors, I scored 90% and it got my educational level just right.
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06-26-2017, 05:57 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: SF East Bay
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I already know my educational background, so didn't bother taking the test 
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06-26-2017, 06:01 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Flyover country
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I must call it out on a technicality.
After I finished all my doctoral course work and comprehensive exams, I changed my mind and never actually submitted my dissertation, so I'm an ABD (All But Dissertation). However the quiz marked me as a PhD. Close, but no cigar.
I think it must try to give you a break with a number of easy questions. I mean:
"First three words of the Bible?"
"Which scientist is associated with E=MC^2?"
I doubt if many would miss questions like those.
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06-26-2017, 06:13 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: City
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70 questions and repeated humiliation from not knowing Shakespeare! It did award me the PhD that I never actually got because I didn't do the thesis. So, pretty good, I guess.
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06-26-2017, 06:34 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Dutchess County
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I didn't do to bad. It did overestimate my "formal" education.
Your Score: 61%
College Graduate
You've complete a 4-year college degree - or you're nearly there. Go you!
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06-26-2017, 06:35 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2008
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Have not even opened the link yet, but Shakespeare?
Give me a break. I am an immigrant, whose native language is not even English, who came here as a young adult. What do I know about Shakespeare other than "to be or not to be"?
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06-26-2017, 06:40 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Peru
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So...
A follow up, with a simple three part question...
Without looking...
1. How many colors in "Google"
2. Name them...
3. Name them in sequence.
... or maybe you don't use Google...
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06-26-2017, 06:55 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Toronto
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Agreed that it is long. Yes quite a bit of Shakespeare. Good fun for those who enjoy such things.
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06-26-2017, 07:06 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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45%, college degree. I don't have a college degree because 45% was the result of most of my tests in high school.
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06-26-2017, 07:14 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Beaverton
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Never had interest in the arts and it reflects in my score. However it was accurate in my education.
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06-26-2017, 07:17 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Aug 2013
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Scored 74%. So where do I pick up my PHD diploma?  Missed most of the Art and Literature questions. Good thing I watch a lot of History and Science documentaries. It was a fun quiz, but I'm sure the DW would question my results...
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06-26-2017, 07:17 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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"Exit, pursued by a bear."
The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare
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06-26-2017, 07:30 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2011
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Overstated my education with a PhD. I have a Masters. However, my mom would be proud!
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06-26-2017, 07:41 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: Independence
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87%, a number of flubs on my part, overestimated my education.
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06-26-2017, 07:45 PM
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Location: Southern California
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I only got 51% correct, and it understated my education. But I was never good at history, art or literature, or pretty much anything else they asked about.
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06-26-2017, 07:50 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Illinois
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Also on my tablet, got a Comcast survey or whatever pop up and couldn't continue the quiz. Nor will I start over.
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