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so go back one entry if you have any interest at all in receiving any bj�rk from me. i posted my list for a friend to pick from who keeps sending me awesome stuff i don't have. so i had winamp spit out my list so that i can offer some bj�rk back if there's any you don't already have.
anyway...
i interviewed with a company last week and they sent me home with a personality test and if you know me, gentle reader, you know that i absolutely abhor personality tests. i despise the whole concept. especially worthless are the whole INTP, ENFJ, Introvert-Nurturing-TouchyFeely-Halfwit variety of tests. the "Please Understand Me" books. the "if you could be one animal in the jungle, that animal would be a) a lion b) a tiger c) a snake d) a liger" ... i hate these tests and I'm barely sorry if you love them and are now deeply offended. but they are utter nonsense. and even if they were %100 accurate, they do more harm than good. labeling yourself as a certain type is putting yourself in a box and that can never be good.
but enough ranting, because apparently, i scored pretty well. %95 percent, with 2 wrong. how you can get questions wrong on a personality test, i don't know, but there you are.
so besides the incredibly annoying personality questions, the test included a math / pattern recognition, out-of-the-box thinker type of section. and me being incredibly nerdy, had immense fun in this section. since it was a take-home, i can include the questions, in case any fellow nerds want to have a go at it. i don't have the answers because i never saw my test after i faxed it in. but i'll include what i put down in invisible ink under each question. let me know if you found a better answer because 2 of my questions were wrong and they may very well have both been from this section.
here we go (highlight for my answers):
76. Select the next number in the series: 5 10 6 9 7
A. 6
B. 3
C. 8
D. 12
i put C. 8 because 5,6,7 and 10,9,8 seemed like interweaving series, one going up and one going down.
77. Select the group which does not belong:
A. K L M H
B. R S T Q
C. D E F C
D. V W X U
i put A. because the others are all a sequence of 4 letters in alphabetical order, with the first letter moved to the end.
78. Select the next number in the series: 7 11 19 35
A. 38
B. 50
C. 67
D. 73
i put C. 67 because inbetween each number is a doubling amount starting with 4, then 8, then 16, then next would be 32 bringing the total to 67.
79. Select the next letter in the series: E H L Q
A. K
B. Z
C. U
D. W
i put D. W because E is the 5th letter, add 3 you get the 8th letter (H), add 4 you get the 12th letter (L), add 5 you get the 17th letter (Q), and add 6 you would get 23 (W).
80. Select the next number in the series: 60 30 20 15 12
A. 13
B. 6
C. 10
D. 4
i chose C. 10 because the sequence is going down by 1/2, 1/3/ 1/4, 1/5, then next 1/6, wich is 10, right? not sure.
81. Select the next number in the series: 298 209 129 58 -4
A. -13
B. -93
C. -66
D. -57
i chose D. -57 because it's going down by around 90, then about 80, then kinda 70, then maybe 60, which might be -57. i dunno again.
82. Select the next letter in the sequence: A F Z U G L T
A. O
B. C
C. X
D. N
i put A. O because the letters are going up 5 from A down 5 from Z, up 5, down 5... to 0.
83. Select the next letter in the sequence: C A R R
A. S
B. X
C. I
D. Y
i didn't see a sequence but i put D. Y because it was the only one that spelled a word in the end. CARRY. May have been a trick question.
84. Select the next number in the series: 16 26 21 31
A. 18
B. 26
C. 33
D. 19
i put down B. 26 because it's going up 10, down 5, up 10, down 5... 26.
85. Select which group does not belong:
A. B M S K
B. V S P M
C. G S M P
D. K P M S
i thought A didn't belong because the others all had some letter and then a variation of PMS. yeah.
86. Select the choice that best completes the relationship:
23 : 3,983 as 32 :
A. 3,839
B. 3,994
C. 4,874
D. 9,599
the big numbers individually add up to 23, so i looked for the other big number that individually adds up to 32... D. 9,599.
87. Select the choice that best completes the series:
DDDDDDDeeeeeDDD
A. e
B. eeDD
C. E
D. eee
the amount of letters is going down by odd numbers, so the next is A. e.
have any nerdy fun? good.
oh, btw. i got the job. big salary hike and lots of other perks. i start jan. 3rd and i'm overjoyed. i've been looking to get hired on with a company for a year and a half and just freelancing on my own in the meantime. now i get some benefits and a steady cashflow! i wonder what that will be like.
well, have a drink on me! we deserve it.
Posted by heydomsar
2005-12-22
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