I went back through it to see what the rest was like. I got 100% but there were a few guesses in there. When I didn’t know the answer outright it was obvious from the choices. Almost screwed up on ‘philo-’. So they think I have a PhD. Bah! Everything there I learned in high school, reading books, doing crossword puzzles, and watching movies. I didn’t see anything there that you would need higher education for either. But I don’t care, the internet says I can call myself Dr. TriPolar now. Not a real doctor with a stethoscope, just that other kind.
I don’t got no degree a’tall; I don’t know whut a Phd are but now I is won. Scored 90% fur whut ids wurth.
Never saw my score, because I didn[t stop to read all the fine print after every answer, and I roilled right through the end and started answering the states, thinking that was part of the same test. So I guess very low, because reading the directions was less important to me than knowing the answers. I think I got 5 or 6 wrong, so it probably said PhD, even though I flunked out of college after two years. The two yeas I was there did not teach me a single thing that was on this test, and I didn’t expect any more years would have, either…
I got a notification about an unsafe website around #35 or so. I got the one about Caligula wrong. I have a BS but I read a lot.
Were there any math questions? I expect that would start to make the results more than unsubtle clickbait.
Regards,
Shodan
93% for a B.S. in Education back in 1975.
If it hadn’t been for all the Shakespear questions, might have gotten a 98%.
Clearly there was no math because I got 100%. I did have to take a guess on the author of Elements though.
I’ve got a BA in English and I got 96%. I got 3 questions wrong. The one about who made the Trojan Horse, the one about who wrote ‘Elements’, and the one about which period in American history is referred to as the “antebellum”, and I only got that last one wrong because my dog shit browser hiccuped and made me click the wrong option by accident.
It’s a ridiculously easy quiz. Obviously, a PhD would score highly, but so would a reasonably bright high school student. The weekly quiz at my local pub (which is most assuredly not aimed at PhDs) is way harder than that.
Yep. Ridiculously easy. Two wrong, one of them a wrong guess.
Hey, the printing presses the Chinese invented were highly successful, and they had nothing to do with Gutenberg.
Hard to see the point of that, unless you want to make an Education degree a lot more rigorous.
The point of a Bachelor’s is to know enough about a broad field get a job in that industry and the point of a PhD is to know enough about a specific sub-field to do research in it and to know enough about the whole field to educate people about it, so getting a Just Better Than Bachelor’s in multiple fields would qualify you to teach intro-level courses in all of them because it would be a waste to get that kind of education in multiple fields if you only wanted to work in one of them. People with those degrees would, at best, be on a track to teach grade school or high school, as being a permanent TA isn’t anyone’s best option. However, those kinds of teachers still need to know how to manage children and how to teach, which are specialized skills learned in a focused Education degree program.
So your proposed degree would have to be on top of Bachelor of Education (BEd), because otherwise they wouldn’t have enough knowledge to teach anyone and they’d have spent too much time to just get a job in one of their fields. That said, BA/BEd programs exist, but they presumably only load one other Bachelor’s program on top of the BEd, and they don’t go beyond a BA, as you propose.
Well, I was going to say that my AS scored a PhD because I’m an outlier, but y’all ruined that for me.
80%, PhD, although I’d say the test measures how much you retain from high school and lower levels more than how much schooling you have.
89%
I agree with someone up thread, they were about par with Jeopardy questions.
But I do have a masters.
93%. I have a masters. Missed some questions on ancient history–my high school history courses skimmed over a lot of that and I’ve never been terribly interested in it so the names don’t stick.
For that matter, I’ve had a total of about two weeks of instruction on the American Civil War in my entire school career. I can reel off pretty much every Romanov tsar and Soviet premier, but Civil War battles? Forget it.
100% I actually do have a PhD, and a JD too. I don’t think I learned anything that was on the test in the course of getting either, except that I did read Brown v. Board of Education.
Congratulations, you two scored the highest. The most important question was the unstated “are you really going to put up with this lame-ass shit?”
That’s what the Baccalaurate was originally supposed to be, back when it replaced Trivium and Quadrivium and before it specialized.