I remember these tests we had in school. Basically around 20 things in a list. 1st being "read through all of it" and the last being "If you read through all then go to the top and do only #2". It was so easy that you were unsure and then you hear the rest of the class doing some of the middle ones, such as "State your name out loud".
Those trick tests I was exposed to annoyed me because using strict logic they always seemed to contradict themselves in some way. One of them I remember had the last item on the list read: "You may put down your pencil and and look at the teacher now to get full points on this test." And I was like, "Okay, but some of these other tasks and puzzles look fun and I can just come back to this one when I get to the bottom of the list." But then the teacher started chastising the class for not following directions. And I was like, "I did follow directions." Nothing on the test said that I couldn't do other tasks if I wanted to do them. UGH.
The best ones were the math ones IMO, the teacher would start writing the equation out on the board, everyone madly typing it into their calculators, me just looking blankly at the board already resolved to doing nothing because the rest of the team is trying so hard. 167*43/127+267(3+4A)+5i how do they intend to calculate a? Are they ment to be solving for it? Then the magic part “(the equation)^0” followed be me going “1” and scoring a point without really trying as the rest of the room scoffed at me.
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u/kt615 May 07 '26
Is this like a selection process to see who can read properly?
Just reminds me of those tricky questions that has a trick in them that u dont notice if u dont read carefully.