TEST TIME
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Can you pass the 11 plus, I got 12/15 and ran out of time how much smarter than me are you?

Alt: lunch
(PsychoChomp, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 12:51, 34 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

/talks amongst myself while people do the test.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 12:55, Reply)

another sucessful thread
Great Job!
(PsychoChomp, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 12:58, Reply)

I already passed it in 1987.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 12:59, Reply)

13/15 with about five minutes to spare
I passed the 11 plus
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 12:59, Reply)

I made the mistake of working out every word in Q3 rather than just answering the question

(PsychoChomp, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:01, Reply)

14 out of 15.

(Bazongaloid, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:02, Reply)

I didn't have to take the 11 plus
I just went to a good comprehensive.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:02, Reply)

Same here

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:07, Reply)

14/15, timer reads 5:45
Not too bad.

I didn't get the last one though, didn't understand it.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:02, Reply)

it's an a/b/a/b/a/b progression

(PsychoChomp, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:04, Reply)

Does it go "Dancing Queen" "Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)" "Does Your Mother Know"?

(Bazongaloid, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:05, Reply)

13/15 with 2:52 remaining
I skipped one and guessed one.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:02, Reply)

I guessed the last one
I hate maths progressions.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:04, Reply)

I can't even work out which ones I skipped/guessed
I've edited this post twice and it's still not right.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:06, Reply)

10/15
All the ones I did I got right, but I was too slow.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:06, Reply)

12/15 with 4m30s remaining

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:06, Reply)

Where are you all dropping marks?
I got 15/15
*smugs*
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:06, Reply)

I struggled with the numerical codes (Q's 7 & 8)

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:08, Reply)

Yeah, I don't like them much.
They're not as bad as the end questions in the 11+ always were, though. Y'know, "A train leaves station A and travels to station B five miles away at 65mph. How long does it take to go to station C given First Great Western couldn't run a bath let alone a fucking transport system?"
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:11, Reply)

I always put a smartarse answer to those thinking I was oh-so-clever. Such as "the train? Pah. My father's driver takes me wherever I want to go so this really doesn't apply to me".

Amazed I ever passed anything.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:15, Reply)

I barely knew what a train was.
We only have 2 train lines in N. Ireland - one going East-West and one going North-South. And usually both of these had no trains running due to bombs on the line.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:19, Reply)

14/15 with 5 minutes left
I could have looked at that last one for an hour and still not got it though.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:29, Reply)

13/15
with just over two minutes to go. I just couldn't see it for Q10 and Q11...but I passed the 11 plus in 1996 so I don't really care.
(berk, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:29, Reply)

13/15
with just over two minutes to go. I just couldn't see it for Q10 and Q11...but I passed the 11 plus in 1996 so I don't really care.
(berk, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:29, Reply)

Did you pass it whilst sitting in great seats?

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:33, Reply)

I thought that

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:37, Reply)

I got 11/15 which suprised the hell out of me considering I have a hangover.
Oh and I'm stupid.
( girlinthehole, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:33, Reply)

15/15
but I am lying
(Quinton had to abandon other account as i broke it, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:34, Reply)

16/15

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:35, Reply)

was that the age of your last girlfriend?

(Quinton had to abandon other account as i broke it, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:37, Reply)

16 if anyone asks you, RIGHT?!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:38, Reply)

don't be silly, no one on the internet has a girlfriend

(Quinton had to abandon other account as i broke it, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:39, Reply)

Oh man zinged by bert as a paedo :(

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:41, Reply)

14 out of 15
But my wrong answer was, in fact, correct. It just wasn't the one they were looking for.

But then I guessed the last one, so I guess it works out karmically or some other such nonsense.
( Kroney, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:42, Reply)