It’s amazing how fast the five minutes run out. I breezed through the first 10 or so questions in about a minute and a half, and then all of a sudden they hit you with word problems. I’m sitting here scratching it out with pencil and paper, and by the time I came up with the (wrong) answer, I had spent over a full minute on one question.
I pretty much had to make haphazard guesses for the last few, answering the last four questions (mostly incorrectly) in under twenty seconds total.
No kidding. I was sitting pretty until those crazy word problems about the typeface and the proportional profit. I was like, wait, what? How much time is left? Probably shouldn’t have wasted over a minute on each before giving up.
To be honest, I felt like those questions tested QB skills, and I failed miserably by focusing on my first read far too long. I took the sack.
Not bad - 16/20 = 40 score. I skipped 10 as soon as I got to it - what a clusterfuck of a question after the 10 easy ones before it. I missed #15, and also skipped 17 and 18. Got the rest!
To be clear, this is an abbreviated, electronic version of a longer paper-and-pencil test. I assume somebody’s done the correlation for short form and computer administered, but it’s not in the manual.
37.5! Where’s my multimillion-dollar contract?! Wait… it doesn’t work that work that way? You actually have to know how to play football as well? Damn.
I just totally skipped the hard questions (10, 11, 17, 18), though I see from the answer key that 10 was actually an easy question.
#4 was just a mistake. #10 I took a quick guess instead of wasting time. #17 I was running out of time and should not have missed anyway. #18 I ran out of time on.
That’s what I meant – not hard as in involving excessive brainpower, but hard as in time-consuming. But that’s the thing about this test – none of the questions are super-hard. They’re all stuff kids learn in elementary school.
The thing I’ve never been able to figure out is how much stock teams place in the Wonderlic. There are guys who are Wonderlic Wonders (NE TE Ben Watson comes to mind), and guys who are totally licked by the Wonderlic – and yet does the effect carry through to the field of play? I can see it being a bit of a tie-breaker where you have two draft prospects who are more or less equal, but aside from that, what’s the real point?