civic literacy test

[winterbadger]

I was not solidly sure of all my answers, but I missed only one question (and that was one where I had a feeling my response was incorrect).

Intercollegiate Studies Institute test

Sadly, nearly half of all those taking the test when it was first administered failed, and they did so in a fairly uniform manner, without division by any of the usual civic divisions, like conservative v. liberal, young v. old, religious v. not. The wealthy did a little better than the poor, but still failed as a group.

Thanks to wcg for the link!

Comments

[tylluan-wen.livejournal.com]

I only missed two; one for which I'm smacking myself on the head because I should have known better.

I clicked on the link that lead to a comparison to how well citizens in general did to how well elected politicians did. In general, citizens scored higher than politicians. Now that is really sad.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

That's what I noticed, too. Happy to say I got them all, but that's mostly because I teach it to middle-schoolers and wind up going over the information pretty frequently.

[ban-leodhasach.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo I got 17/33, which considering I know very little about American affairs (especially political ones!!) I thought was quite good :-)

Does this mean I might be let in in future??

[winterbadger]

Not bad, but I think you'll still only be allowed to visit. We're very worried about ALIENS right now (as the UK is), forgetting that they are the source of our strength...

[gr-c17.livejournal.com]

Missed 4, but they were not all economic questions as I thought they would be.