I got all 26 questions right, yet it said I'm in the 5th grade. Sounds like it should be called "Are You As Smart As a 5th Grader?" To determine if you're actually smarter than a 5th grader, the test should include questions that are beyond a 5th grade level.
I don’t know if it was just chance, but nearly every question’s correct answer was the first option. So I’d shuffle the order of the answers around if you’re not already.
I'm not sure if that was meant to be a delibrate trap, I noticed about ten in, and by the 20th question I was thinking this is just silly .. and then almost gave the wrong answer on the 26th question.
That was at the core of me (CTO) discussing recruiting tests with HR - developers will always jump to the meta level of the test, try to find out what the test is about, then answer accordingly. These "personality" tests annoyed engineering candidates and the results where doctored by the candidates, but HR wouldn't give up.
Hmmm - I coded aircraft control, exploration geophysics, and computational algebra systems. I do love a shortcut but triple checking to avoid physical crashes, expensive mistakes and other math people laughing is first nature over speed.
Colloquially, it has meant that my entire life. As a fifth grader, I was an ass so I'm sure I told kids I was smarter than them because I did better on a test.
"What do you call the number of times that one number can be divided by another?" A) Dividend, B) Divisor, C) Quotient.
And a minor UX nitpick: please wrap the input element inside of a <label> tag, it makes it much easier to interact with form elements (in that I can click on the text to mark the element):
The correct answer to that question would be the Logarithm. 32 can be divided 5 times by 2 before it becomes 1 and you can't divided it anymore. I think the phrasing of the question is incorrect.
That's the only question I got wrong because it did not make any sense to me.
I have one suggestion. The dialog at the end like "you got the following questions wrong: 23" can be easily mistaken for the number of questions answered wrong. I did!
If that be changed to avoid the confusion, it will be great.
One of the questions was about an element in the periodic table and I got to study periodic table in 8th or 9th grade.
So, apart from the obvious questions about American history I think getting them right also depends on the country you're from.
That said, a reasonably educated adult should be able to answer most of them excluding the country specific questions like unit conversion, history & constitution.
As someone who was very bright, in 5th grade, in the US, in the early 90s, I might have known 12-15 of those. Would have been more like 8th grade. We wouldn't have known capitols of other countries or generals until late middle school. World history didn't start until middle school. Same with chemistry/elements.
5th grade in the US is CM2 in France. No way that our pupils in CM2 can answer all these questions.
Some are obvious, some are 3 or 4 years ahead of our curriculum or not present (I am not sure that the composition of a string quartet is taught at all).
Make the selection buttons bigger and brighter, the first time I failed to notice that my clicks didnt take. Also, I noticed that there's no way to be 'smarter' (25 of 25)
There wasn’t a single question that a fifth grader wouldn’t know the answer to. How about asking about the core ideas of ethnomethodology? Eat my dust, fifth graders!
got all right except for US-specific questions, and a musical instruments one. Perhaps a generalised version would be even more fun; though I think that'd be devoid of history.