Okay, THAT was humbling.
Feb. 1st, 2008 10:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblog("That" being this, which I stayed up for and did last night. )
I'll be shocked if I get a callback.
There were 50 questions (well, "clues") on the online test, compared to the 60 you'll see in the course of a full game between the first two rounds. Sitting at home, typically, I'll be stumped by maybe a third of the bottom-row clues, and will get at least 90 percent of the rest of the board. Some of that is just accumulated worthless knowledge, but lots is also knowing the tricks of the game, and how often the clue (especially in conjunction with the category) hints at the correct response.
Not this time. Few, if any, of the clues had any fluff in them which hinted at anything other than my imminent demise.
At best, I'm looking at a score of 80 percent, since I let at least 10 questions blow right by on topics from botany to Russian literature which I knew I didn't know. Of the other 40, I felt sure on no more than half (and the easy ones were painfully easy, such as naming the state holding the first primary), and there were hardly any among the remaining 20 that were either tip-of-tonguers or 50-50s between two choices. So even if I scored my home-game average of 90 on those, that works out to a total grade of 76 percent.
Not gonna cut it, unless these things are curved way above their expectations. Even if I did somehow get a decent score, though? It could be a year before they call.
::notes 2/1/09 in Outlook for trying again, begins practicing Russian::
I'll be shocked if I get a callback.
There were 50 questions (well, "clues") on the online test, compared to the 60 you'll see in the course of a full game between the first two rounds. Sitting at home, typically, I'll be stumped by maybe a third of the bottom-row clues, and will get at least 90 percent of the rest of the board. Some of that is just accumulated worthless knowledge, but lots is also knowing the tricks of the game, and how often the clue (especially in conjunction with the category) hints at the correct response.
Not this time. Few, if any, of the clues had any fluff in them which hinted at anything other than my imminent demise.
At best, I'm looking at a score of 80 percent, since I let at least 10 questions blow right by on topics from botany to Russian literature which I knew I didn't know. Of the other 40, I felt sure on no more than half (and the easy ones were painfully easy, such as naming the state holding the first primary), and there were hardly any among the remaining 20 that were either tip-of-tonguers or 50-50s between two choices. So even if I scored my home-game average of 90 on those, that works out to a total grade of 76 percent.
Not gonna cut it, unless these things are curved way above their expectations. Even if I did somehow get a decent score, though? It could be a year before they call.
::notes 2/1/09 in Outlook for trying again, begins practicing Russian::