US elected officials scored abysmally on a test measuring their civic knowledge, with an average grade of just 44 percent, the group that organized the exam said Thursday.
Ordinary citizens did not fare much better, scoring just 49 percent correct on the 33 exam questions compiled by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI).
So, how well will you do? Take the Civics Test and see how you rate. Can you beat my 81.82%?
Pau.
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96.97%
But I've been around twice as long as you have, so I got it hammered into me more often.
87.88%
But, like BillT, I also have age on my side.
I also got 87.88%. I didn't think it was that difficult, why did so many do so poorly?
I don't know. I'm a product of a mediocre public school education and not in public service. And yet I scored and 81%. These people most likely went to private schools and serve in the public arena on a daily basis and yet, they scored abysmally.
I scored 87%, although I can partially attribute that to the fact that, unlike Bill, I wasn't around for the Lincoln-Douglas debates and therefore had to try and recall them from memory -- of which there are none since Western Civ was an early morning class........in the Spring.
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I got an 81.82 too. :) Yay for being smarter than our politicians. (Or not)
I tied with Bill, dammit.
Okay, it either means you learned as much as somebody *my* age or my memory's as good as somebody *your* age.
What was the question again?
96.97%.
Everybody can mess up at least once.
Except surgeons.
And fighter pilots.
Piffle.
Ever see the mess a fighter pilot makes when he tries to hover a helicopter?
Got an F-16 guy over here who's never even got the sim off the ground -- he keeps planting the nose into the runway.
That's because you haven't shown him where the hover button is!
Oh. Right.
I *knew* I should a-been doing something when I handed him the controls instead of reciting the Lincoln-Douglas Debates from memory...
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