FORUM FUN FEATURE!! Following Instructions Test

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Here's another little test to stretch your minds. Give it a legitimate shot before you slip on over into the answers thread.


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 five 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 five minutes allocated. You may start the timer and begin whenever you choose. Good Luck!!


You may begin now!!

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 of your test paper, write the names of your favourite singer and your favourite musical group

6.Just above the answer to part #5, write “This test is very easy.”

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 in not important.

8.Directly above your answer to part #7, draw a row of three small circles. Once again, size is unimportant.

9.Write the name of the first president of the United States 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 any country that begins with the letter “I” directly underneath your answer to part #2.

11.Take the number of dwarfs in the Snow Write story and 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.

12.Think of a number between 1 and 50. Double that number. Add 20. Add 6. Subtract 17. Subtract 9. Divide by 2. Write the final answer on your test paper directly underneath your answer to part #11.

13.Now that you have carefully read all of the parts so far, and you have not carried out any of the actual instructions, skip the next two parts and go back and only complete part #3.

14.The name of the first president of the United States is George Washington. He was president from 1789 until 1797. Add the two dates together to see if the total is less than 5,000.

15.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.