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RE: Full Civic Literacy Exam

brad kaste

brad kaste

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missed 3, scored 90% guess some of the things my teachers pounded in are still rattling around in my gourd:icon_lol:
 
Missed two -- got a 93.94%. Missed the one about "Progressive tax" and the one about "taxes equaling govt spending." Guess I can stay. :jump:

Marc
 
jeeeeesus...63%...but i missed some dumb ones...meaning ones i should have known.....or thought i did...arg
 
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Brad Kaste,

Not too bad...91%. That's an A- in my book. I screwed the pooch on Socrates, taxes & government spending, and free market versus centralization. Thanks!
 
I had a Civic once,two months after me and the wife made the last payment my wife stopped for a school bus and some idiot texting driver hit her at 35 miles an hour and totaled it.
Now I have a Kia. And the wife has back trouble.
Oh never mind wrong civics.

Ok 81.82% but it was multiple choice and I am a good guesser.
If it was an essay it would have been 11.00% or less.
 
Re: same

aeromed202 said:
Apparently I don't belong here, but how's an alien supposed to know that stuff?
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If he\she just got here they Don't know it. Immigration doesn't\Can't keep track of all of them. There're some who
have expired visas here that have never left.
 
I want to apologize for publishing my score here, because after reading it I suddenly realize I seemed to be bragging, which was not my intent.

I typically do well on these types of exams because I have had the opportunity to pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees are in these areas (Majors in Political Science, Minors in History, and graduate in Business IT).

In other general knowledge stuff I know I would not fare so well. Nor can I do much programming, aircraft building, mission building, painting or anything like that....I'm too dense ( I can put up crown molding....which I hold as a major life achievement :) ).

Like Brad K I had this most difficulty with the economics questions, although my schools helped me there. I bet most folks would miss those questions, mainly in my opinion because the public school systems do such a poor job of education in this area. One would think that in a country founded on the concepts of a free market, we'd teach folks a little of what that means.

Because we don't it makes our populace much more susceptible to being manipulated by our elected officials and less likely to question most of the imbecilic proposals that are tossed about.

Incidentally, the one I missed was one of the simplest....I confused the order of the amendments in the Bill of Rights regards "religion".
 
Oh my, I only scored 81.82%

I should know better by now, but I waffled on three of the questions and changed my answers. I had 'em correct but then suffered from the "second thought" syndrome...

1. Lincoln vs Douglas debate
2. Freemarket
3. Pres. Roosevelt vs Supreme Court

On the whole though I shouldn't really feel too badly, since:

The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%.
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Only 55% for college educators? Good grief, no wonder we're entering the era of "Idiocracy!"
 
Well I feel pretty good about my score then, since I dropped out of HS and joined the Army I didn't figure that I'd do that well, but I got 100% on that little quiz. It wasn't really that tough of a test though and I always did test well. Oh and in case anyone is wondering I finally found a job, I'm currently working as a Correctional Officer at one of GA's toughest prisons.

CAD
 
5 out of 5....but one was a guess (educated guess, but a guess).

3 of the 5 did not seem to be specifically related to Canada.
 
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