Wonderlic 15 sample questions.

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1. Assume the first two statements are true. Is the final one...

1. True
2. False
3. Not certain

The boy plays baseball. All baseball players wear hats. The boy wears a hat.

2. Paper sells for 21 cents per pad. What will four pads cost?

3. How many of the five pairs of items listed below are exact duplicates?

Nieman, K.M.	Neiman, K.M.
Thomas, G.K.	Thomas, C.K.
Hoff, J.P.	Hoff, J.P.
Pino, L.R.	Pina, L.R.
Warner, T.S.	Wanner, T.S.

4. PRESERVE RESERVE—Do these words...

1. Have similar meanings
2. Have contradictory meanings
3. Mean neither the same nor opposite

5. A train travels 20 feet in 1/5 second. At this speed, how far will it travel in three seconds?

6. When rope is selling at $.10 a foot, how many feet can you buy for 60 cents?

7. The ninth month of the year is...

1. October
2. January
3. June
4. September
5. May

8. Which number in the following group of numbers represents the smallest amount?

7

.8

31

.33

2

9. In printing an article of 48,000 words, a printer decides to use two sizes of type. Using the larger type, a printed page contains 1,800 words. Using smaller type, a page contains 2,400 words. The article is allotted 21 full pages in a magazine. How many pages must be in smaller type?

10. Three individuals form a partnership and agree to divide profits equally. X invests $9,000, Y invests $7,000 and Z invests $4,000. If the profits are $4,800, how much less does X receive than if the profits were divided in proportion to the amount invested?

11. Assume the first two statements are true. Is the final one...

1. True
2. False
3. Not certain

Tom greeted Beth. Beth greeted Dawn. Tom did not greet Dawn.

12. A boy is 17 years old and his sister is twice as old. When the boy is 23 years old, what will be the age of his sister?

13. Look at the row of numbers below. Which number should come next?

8

4

2

1

1/2

1/4

?

14. The hours of daylight and darkness in SEPTEMBER are nearest equal to the hours of daylight and darkness in...

1. June
2. March
3. May
4. November

15. One of the numbered figures in the following drawing is most different from the others. What is the number in that figure?

Answer Key

Spoiler!

1. True
2. 84 cents
3. 1
4. 1
5. 300 feet
6. Six feet
7. 4, September
8. .33
9. 17
10. $560
11. Not certain
12. 40 years old
13. 1/8
14. 2, March
15. 4

[KCrockaholic]

If this is how the real test is I'm amazed so many people get low scores unless they're just not taking it serious.

[NJChiefsFan]

Originally Posted by Peyton's Princess

I get in this argument all of the time...

I can literally recite to you the first 5 picks of every NBA draft for the past 20 years...I can name almost every college an NBA player went to and like 70% of NFL players...

it's useless knowledge in something that REALLY interests me (sports)...I'm good at remembering baseball stats as well

why is this useful information any less important than knowing which month has the least amount of daylight?

as soon as someone can give me a good answer then I'll go back and take elementary level classes so I can learn information that I don't even care or need to know just like I did when I was a kid and I obsessed over sports and now am an Encyclopedia of sports knowledge.

seriously

why is knowing the Presidents more important than knowing what year Shaq went 1st overall?

riddle me that

Well I think in the end what is important in life is a personal thing. "Book" knowledge can be important at times if you are trying to work within the system. Certain "intellectual" skills do help build your abilities for other things. You mentioned you are good at math. Some of your thinking skills even outside of math were developed in part because of the ways you learned how to process math.

I cared/care about history, math, science, reading ect. I value that and take pride in it. How well I measure up in each category certainly depends on my company at the time. Still, I don't judge others based off of it. Plenty of my friends don't give a **** about any of that. Each person can decide on their own what is important in this world.

[Hootie]

Agree 100%

[Lumpy]

I missed 1 question. For some reason, I picked May instead of March for #14. Obvious answer is obvious, but I've been drinking a little. At least I know that my ability to calculate math problems in my head isn't fazed by alcohol... which is nice.

[BigRedChief]

That shit is easy, How can you blow that test?

[NJChiefsFan]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

That shit is easy, How can you blow that test?

I guess only having a short time for a lot of questions. Pressure of what is on the line. That and letting yourself get stuck on one question that you just aren't processing correctly. Also being an idiot would probably cause some issues.

[HolyHat]

When is someone going to post the answers to this test so I can ****ing ace it?

[digger]

Originally Posted by Mr. Pink

When is someone going to post the answers to this test so I can ****ing ace it?

Might check the spoilers!

[HolyHat]

Originally Posted by digger

Might check the spoilers!

You didn't get my joke. I hate not being funny

[digger]

Originally Posted by Mr. Pink

You didn't get my joke. I hate not being funny

[DaneMcCloud]

I got 14 correct. I missed number 10 because I mis-read it each and every time. I finally realized it said less "how much less" instead of total percentage. There's a lot to be said about having your brain in "test" mode.

That said, I'm more than 25 years removed from college and testing. I can see how guys had low scores over the years (like Marino) because they got frustrated and said "**** it. I'm a football player".

[RippedmyFlesh]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

I got 14 correct. I missed number 10 because I mis-read it each and every time. I finally realized it said less "how much less" instead of total percentage. There's a lot to be said about having your brain in "test" mode.

That said, I'm more than 25 years removed from college and testing. I can see how guys had low scores over the years (like Marino) because they got frustrated and said "**** it. I'm a football player".

Which is why I don't value the test as much as most.
To me football smart is being able to think straight while the bullets are flying.
It doesn't take a genius but it does take a special talent.
And more importantly having the physical chops to pull it off.

[NJChiefsFan]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

I got 14 correct. I missed number 10 because I mis-read it each and every time. I finally realized it said less "how much less" instead of total percentage. There's a lot to be said about having your brain in "test" mode.

That said, I'm more than 25 years removed from college and testing. I can see how guys had low scores over the years (like Marino) because they got frustrated and said "**** it. I'm a football player".

That is how I got my 1 answer wrong as well. I would like to think if I was actually taking the test I would have been paying more attention than I was popping through this on the internet but who knows.

As you mention the art of taking the test, especially this one, is of great importance.

[Valiant]

Originally Posted by Peyton's Princess

P.S. no one has ever had a good rebuttal to that

why am I less intelligent than you because I know EVERYTHING about the three major sports from 1990 to now...literally TONS of knowledge and trivia and stats stored in my brain...and I don't know anything about daylight...

but you know everything about daylight and the ocean and perhaps only 10% as much as I know about sports...

why is one meaningless subject considered 'omg common sense everyone knows it you're stupid' and the other is just meaningless?

Huh?

Huh?

I measure intelligence differently. I choose to be ignorant in subjects that do me no good/don't interest me. I could care less about history. I don't care about slavery or Lincoln or who discovered America...

I do care about the Chiefs and Michael Jordan and Nolan Ryan and amazing pizza recipes and stuff like that...

I'm 27. I don't need to know where Slovakia is on the map. Does me no good.

The test is more of common sense.. If you get a low score on something like this that should be easy to pass, then the teams will know or have a better idea about how you will handle your career and money they give you..

Sure, there are diamonds in the rough that end up getting a smart money manager that will not screw them over/broke..

But when a person is lacking that bad at analytically skills, he best be a freak athlete to have the scores overlooked.. At least for a few years until you can release him when he is downhill and more then likely broke so he can go play for the Raiders..


I got a 13, the 2 I missed I did not want to scribble on paper.. The rest was done in like 2 mins.

[Valiant]

Originally Posted by RippedmyFlesh

Which is why I don't value the test as much as most.
To me football smart is being able to think straight while the bullets are flying.
It doesn't take a genius but it does take a special talent.
And more importantly having the physical chops to pull it off.

Football smarts is huge, but this test is just as important.. But they need to manage their money/career/friends.. The tests gives you an insight to this.. Certain companies give similar tests like these now..

This test will also show willingness/capability to learn NFL playbooks.. Talent only takes you so far..