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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 4:30 am Post subject: Try this vocab quiz. |
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www.allthetests.com/redirect.php3?siteid=2809
Given 2 words, choose if their meaning is the same or opposite. Many words are really obscure.
I got 158/200 (making 50 or more wild guesses) |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 5:02 am Post subject: |
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Thats a good test -- a fair few gave me pause.
Bet no one here can top me at 184. |
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jacl
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 5:15 am Post subject: |
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I just randomly chose answers and I got 103 and 3 missed ones. 
That's all the time I have for that one. |
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red dog
Joined: 31 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 5:37 am Post subject: |
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I got 163 but made a lot of guesses. I guess the idea is to wear people down so they get answers wrong even when they know the words? I wish I'd saved my results so I could go back and check ...
Too tired tonight, though ... |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 5:55 am Post subject: |
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I got 165--right below the 50th percentile,
but if you will excuse me for bragging,
I scored in the 99th percentile on the verbal portion of the GRE.
If scores on this test correlate with GRE scores,
then over half the people taking this test can score in the 99th percentile on the verbal portion of GRE. |
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red dog
Joined: 31 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 6:02 am Post subject: |
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| tomato wrote: |
I got 165--right below the 50th percentile,
but if you will excuse me for bragging,
I scored in the 99th percentile on the verbal portion of the GRE.
If scores on this test correlate with GRE scores,
then over half the people taking this test can score in the 99th percentile on the verbal portion of GRE. |
The author of the test says you're in the 99.8th or 99.9th percentile, though, doesn't he? Where do you get the 50th percentile figure? |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 6:45 am Post subject: |
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Wow. You guys know a lot of words.
I got 142. I'd like to imagine that if I hadn't rushed it I would have got more.. but probably not =) |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 7:11 am Post subject: |
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No, the 50-percentile point is a few points higher than my score.
I didn't even qualify for the top 100.
One really has to be intrepid to assent to such a sudorific test.
I hate to be refractory, but I think we should have demurred with insouciance.
When I took this test, I was so diaphoretic, I thought my head was going to dehisce.
And that is putting it in irrefragable terms.
Furthermore, those who scored the highest should be treated with apotheosis!
And now, to put it in apopemptic terms, I must affranchise myself and
decamp. |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 7:15 am Post subject: |
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I got 170, but I think it should have been 172. One, in looking back, I just screwed up, hurrying at the end (authentic/factitious). But in another case, I disagree with the author's assessment that intermittent/incessant are the same. One it with continuous regular pauses, the other without pauses. Don't seem the same to me.
I was confident in my answer on 142 of them and got everyone of those right (except the one I challenge above and the one I screwed up). Of the 58 where I guessed, I got 30 right, just above chance. |
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red dog
Joined: 31 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 7:41 am Post subject: |
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| tomato wrote: |
No, the 50-percentile point is a few points higher than my score.
I didn't even qualify for the top 100.
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Oh well, me neither. Anyway, I saw the linked page just now -- but those percentiles don't reflect the general population, just the people who e-mailed their test results to the author. Of course he's only going to get the best ones.
This is the part I was looking at before:
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There is no IQ ranking for this test. However, I can offer you my own score, which is 165 correct. If I assume that I can rank my score on this test similarly to my rankings on the ISPE Vocabulary Tests 'A' and 'B' (respectively published in The Ultimate IQ Challenge, by Feenstra, Carter, and Harding, ISBN 0-7063-7232-8 and in The Ultimate IQ Book, by the same authors, ISBN 0-7063-7148- , then that places 165 correct at the 99.9th (according to vocab 'A') or the 99.8th (according to vocab 'B') percentile in the general adult population. My scores have been remarkably consistent on these types of tests, if the experiences of others are any indication of typical score variations.
If you can match or beat my score, there is a very good chance that you would qualify for one of the 'higher IQ' societies at the 99th percentile, and at least a fair chance that you would qualify for one at 99.9th percentile.
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red dog
Joined: 31 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 7:44 am Post subject: |
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| Woland wrote: |
But in another case, I disagree with the author's assessment that intermittent/incessant are the same. One it with continuous regular pauses, the other without pauses. Don't seem the same to me.
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I agree with you. I must have gotten that one wrong too. |
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jacl
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 8:02 am Post subject: |
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| tomato wrote: |
No, the 50-percentile point is a few points higher than my score.
I didn't even qualify for the top 100.
One really has to be intrepid to assent to such a sudorific test.
I hate to be refractory, but I think we should have demurred with insouciance.
When I took this test, I was so diaphoretic, I thought my head was going to dehisce.
And that is putting it in irrefragable terms.
Furthermore, those who scored the highest should be treated with apotheosis!
And now, to put it in apopemptic terms, I must affranchise myself and
decamp. |
Ha. Looks like a thesis written by a foreign univerisity student back home. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 8:05 am Post subject: |
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I got bored after about 10. Same or opposite? No way. That's too limiting. Most of those words are specialized, and specialized words tend to serve specific purposes. Like, boredom and doldrums are neither the same nor opposite. Just.. similar.
Maybe if I had more patience I could finish it. Looks challenging. |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 8:17 am Post subject: |
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| 164 ... yep, that was hard. I usually back myself with word based puzzles, but there were a lot of words I hadn't even seen in there. One can take what is slightly more than a guess with a bit of knowledge about prefixes and suffixes and other semantic conventions. |
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jacl
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 9:30 am Post subject: |
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| This quiz should be in the "Lance Bass: I'm Gay" thread. |
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