Hmm. I got 110. And then because that’s ridiculous, and I have an ego, I took it a second—and third—time, subsequently scoring 126 and 140. (I reported 125 on the survey because I know 110 isn’t right.)
I’m pretty sure you’re not supposed to do that—IIRC tests are designed to give reasonably accurate results in absence of practice effects. I had taken this same test one year ago and I’m pretty sure I answered certain questions faster than I would have if I had never seen them before (though this effect was almost exclusively in the easy, early questions, which took a very small part of the 40 minutes anyway—I did score 9 points higher than last year but I had a headache (and hadn’t realized I could go back to previous questions) back then so that sounds about right).
Also, I failed to answer quite a few questions when I got 110, thinking I’d be penalized for wrong answers… Apparently I failed at reading the directions which state you should answer all of them facepalm
I’m pretty sure you’re not supposed to do that—IIRC tests are designed to give reasonably accurate results in absence of practice effects. I had taken this same test one year ago and I’m pretty sure I answered certain questions faster than I would have if I had never seen them before (though this effect was almost exclusively in the easy, early questions, which took a very small part of the 40 minutes anyway—I did score 9 points higher than last year but I had a headache (and hadn’t realized I could go back to previous questions) back then so that sounds about right).
Also, I failed to answer quite a few questions when I got 110, thinking I’d be penalized for wrong answers… Apparently I failed at reading the directions which state you should answer all of them facepalm