Can you pass this test?

[Warpy]

Literacy tests will likely soon make a return. Here is an example of one that was once used. Note the illiteracies within this test.

[Buns_of_Fire]

1. Better still, I propose that all candidates for Congress be given this test. nt

[BlueJazz]

2. I answered the questions correctly but while taking the test thought:

Who in the hell came up with THIS illogical, badly written crap ?

..and ONE wrong is a fail? Give me a break !

[BlueJazz]

3. Kick

[Nye Bevan]

4. "Literacy tests will likely soon make a return".

How soon? Within 5 years? 10 years?

[Chan790]

5. Ugh.

That was badly written. Yes, I passed but some of those instructions were written in a way that nearly made it incomprehensible. That wasn't testing literacy either. I would know--I used to be a literacy activist, literacy tutor, third from the top of a regional literacy coalition and score a 5 (the highest level) on the NALS assessment of adult literacy.

It's an intuitive test designed to fail as many individuals as possible without being challenged as impossible. I'd guess the pass rate among the general public to be below 3% and that most people taking it here and saying they passed would actually have been recorded as a fail if administered this test.

[Warpy]

6. Especially with Republicans administering and grading it

I tutored English at the university level more years ago than I want to admit to and I was appalled by this thing.

Funny, one of the most intelligent people I ever met was a janitor who'd stopped going to school in the sixth grade in Mississippi. The man would come to work early every day and read ten newspapers. He was capable of conversing on a wide variety of subjects. I had tremendous respect for him, grabbing what turned out to be a very good practical education after "separate but equal" had turned its back on him.

[burnodo]

7. Draw a line around the shortest word in this line.

Uh...a circle?

I agree that politicians must pass the test first.