Thursday, March 19, 2009

If you thought inference questions were tough...

I remember those buggers in the GP comprehensions - the RJ papers would require you to draw all kinds of inferences from the placement of a comma, or a slight change of tone or register. But this takes the cake: the New Yorker's cartoon IQ test. There're 5 cartoons whose punchlines are incredibly obscure, and you have to pick a reason (out of 4 choices) why it's supposed to make sense. Don't be depressed if you don't score too highly.

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3 Comments:

Blogger a adhiyatma said...

3 out of 5 how'd you do?

3/20/2009 7:49 pm  
Blogger Unknown said...

4 out of 5 first time heh. the meatballs one is completely inexplicable.

3/20/2009 9:15 pm  
Blogger sneakergaze said...

4 out of 5! I got the meatballs one and had a suspicion about the last one but didn't choose that answer :P

I just started subscribing to the New Yorker! At 85 cents an issue it's pretty darn good :D (also means I am turning into some sort of liberal east-coast school hipster but well :P)

3/21/2009 4:47 pm  

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