How Well Can You Follow Directions?
Preparation: To take this test, all you need is a pen or pencil, an 8 ½" x 11" piece of paper, and a watch or clock for timing yourself. After you have completed the test, check the bottom of this page to see how well you did.
Directions: You have a seven minute time limit to complete this test. Carefully read all parts of the test before doing anything. In order to ensure the accuracy of this exam, you should not use more than the seven minutes allocated. Good Luck!!
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1.Write today’s date - month, day, year, - in the top right-hand corner of your test paper.
2.Write the answer to the following multiplication problem directly underneath the date on your test paper - 6 X 5 = ?
3.Write the name of the month that begins with the letter “D” in the top left-hand corner of your test paper.
4.Add 15 to the answer you got in part #2, and write this new total directly underneath your answer for part #3.
5.In the lower left-hand corner, write the name of your favourite singer.
6.Just above the answer to part #5, write “This test is very easy.” 3x in cursive or count OUT LOUD backwards from 5 – 0.
7.In the lower right-hand corner of your test paper, draw a rectangle and inside the rectangle draw a five-pointed star. The size of the drawings is not important.
8.Directly above your answer to part #7, draw a row of three small circles.
9.Write the name of the five teachers on the back of your test paper anywhere you choose. If you don’t know who this person is, write your own name instead.
10.Write the name of a country that begins with “I” underneath your answer to part #2.
11.Take the number of dwarfs in the Snow Write story & add it to the number of bears in the Goldilocks story. Divide the answer by 2. Write this number in the approximate centre of your test paper oryell out your middle name.
12. Alphabetize the last three words here: change, cheap, challenge, cherry, chalk.
13.Now that you have carefully read all of the parts so far, & have not carried out any of the actual instructions, skip the last part & go back & only complete part #3.
14.You should not be reading the end of the examination before the beginning of the examination, but now that you are here, you have just wasted a good part of the time you may require to complete the test.