I’m a nerd (10/11) but I guessed at least four of them. I owe thanks to our US Navy, of 1963, where they actually taught us how to take a multiple choice test. The reason was that promotions in the Navy were/are all based on fleet-wide testing, twice per year. Unfortunately, there are individuals who, for one reason or another, simply do not do well on tests. To even the playing field, they taught us a number of tricks to make everybody feel comfortable under the time-constrained testing. They even taught us how to guess.
I attribute at least part of my passing the Professional Engineer’s exam, without having attended college, to the methods I was taught. I’ve also had a 10 point increase in my IQ score, testing before and after this training.
BTW, the one question I got wrong was the one on air-hardening steel. And that’s the one steel I use for making knives. Aaarrrgh!
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