OT are you smarter than an NFL prospect

[rwsaunders]

If you flunk the test, are you promoted to running back?

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1535104-how-smart-are-you-take-the-wonderlic-test-find-out?hpt=hp_t2

[Louis]

They don't tell you how long you have to answer the mini-test. Or if they do, I missed it.

[Bruce K]

Most of them are pretty easy.

A couple I would consider tricky.

Number 9 took a bit of thought.

BK

[dancinkozmo]

i failed......dammit

oh well , must head off for another day of work at air traffic control.

[fuzzalow]

I didn't go past the first page but I get the gist of it. Driver of this test is reading comprehension. RIF. All the questions are easy, but if the question has to be re-read while taking the test, that is the test score killer.

Real time rapid uptake, as in audibles at the line. A necessary skill for a running back.

[Bud_E]

I did pretty well on the written test. My 40 yard dash is about a minute and a half. Am I good enough ?

[tuxbailey]

Say, what is the passing grade?

[fuzzalow]

Say, what is the passing grade?

If you're a footballer NCAA Div. 1, wait make that, footballer anywhere:

Donne worry'boutdit. Oh, you didn't mean *Grades*, like dem tree R's...If duh guy can run a play and he's a good footballer, who GAS?

[torquer]

Say, what is the passing grade?

"Wonderlic has said that a score of a 10 is considered literate. If this is the case, why in the world are student athletes scoring low to mid-single digits?
Just to give you an idea, average scores are 19 for a linebacker and 24 for a quarterback. The average football player scores around a 20, the average physicist around a 48, and an average journalist around a 24.

After the fame of Michael Lewis’s book and a subsequent movie, the regular public is familiar with the story of Michael Oher. We know that he grew up homeless for some time and missed many years of schooling. He scored a 19."

http://www.southernpigskin.com/acc/view/morris-claiborne-fails-wonderlic

[Louis]

The average football player scores around a 20, the average physicist around a 48, and an average journalist around a 24.

Unless you're Einstein, in which case you get a 15.

[Echo]

I kept thinking that the questions were going to be sneaky in some way, only to find out that they were just straight forward and easy!

[rwsaunders]

"Wonderlic has said that a score of a 10 is considered literate. If this is the case, why in the world are student athletes scoring low to mid-single digits?
Just to give you an idea, average scores are 19 for a linebacker and 24 for a quarterback. The average football player scores around a 20, the average physicist around a 48, and an average journalist around a 24.

After the fame of Michael Lewis’s book and a subsequent movie, the regular public is familiar with the story of Michael Oher. We know that he grew up homeless for some time and missed many years of schooling. He scored a 19."

http://www.southernpigskin.com/acc/view/morris-claiborne-fails-wonderlic

If the average quarterback scores 24 and journalists average 24, then BBDave must be a quarterback...true, false or uncertain...:cool:

[djg]

I don't need to take the test. A Ph.D. A decade or so of university teaching. Then a law degree leading to whatever the heck it is that I do now.

The NFL would have been a better choice for sure, OBVIOUSLY, but NOhhhhh . . . some idiot kid wanted to study model theory. Probably cocky and careless because he had a full head of hair, a Rossin, and a girlfriend.

What I'm saying, basically, is that I flunked that test a long time ago.

Maybe in the womb even.

[Louis]

The NFL would have been a better choice for sure, OBVIOUSLY, but NOhhhhh . . . some idiot kid wanted to study model theory

Your brain was already scrambled and full of rocks, so you didn't need the NFL.

[Sandy]

I had difficulty with a simple/elegant solution to #9. I needed to do it by algebra:

x= number of pages of bigger print
21-x = number of pages of smaller print

Solve: 1800x + (21-x)2400 = 48,000

Will someone give me a more elegant solution please?

Also, I am clueless on number 14. Would someone please explain how March is the answer.

Thanks!

Clueless in Maryland

[torquer]

Doesn't matter if you use an alebraic approach or a cowboy approach; what you need to do is leave this question for last, while you do the easy ones first. Then if you have any time left over, go for it.
Test seems to be about time mangement, which I could see would have application when you're a quarterback with a bunch of 300 pounders trying to crush you before you can get rid of the ball.

[Ahneida Ride]

Also, I am clueless on number 14. Would someone please explain how March is the answer.

Thanks!

Clueless in Maryland


Sept is 4 months away fro Jan 1.

March is 3 months away from Jan 1.

[Scuzzer]

Also, I am clueless on number 14. Would someone please explain how March is the answer.

March and Sept are equinox months.

[Jeff N.]

I remember reading once that Chargers running back Chuck Muncie didn't attend one class when he was playing at Cal...but as a running back, wasn't all that bad.:) Jeff N.

[dancinkozmo]

Just to give you an idea, average scores are 19 for a linebacker and 24 for a quarterback. The average football player scores around a 20, the average physicist around a 48, and an average journalist around a 24.


http://www.southernpigskin.com/acc/view/morris-claiborne-fails-wonderlic

therefore physicists make great quarterbacks

[djg]

Your brain was already scrambled and full of rocks, so you didn't need the NFL.

The granite of New Hampshire.