2022 NFL Draft Thread

[OrangeAfroMan]

Have at it, boys:
https://wonderlictestpractice.com/full-practice-test/

[ELA]

Have at it, boys:
https://wonderlictestpractice.com/full-practice-test/

Time to find out if Vince Young is posting under a pseudonym here

[OrangeAfroMan]

Full test, not quick.  I had 18 seconds left, I believe. 
I used a scratch piece of paper, but no calculator:
.

[OrangeAfroMan]

If that's an accurate representation of the actual test and dudes are scoring like 13 on it, I wouldn't even want them working around heavy machinery, much less leading a professional football team. 

[Cincydawg]

NFL Wonderlic Test: Highest and lowest scores at the NFL Combine (profootballnetwork.com)

I get a sense team glance at the score as confirmation, or not, of what they already surmise.  A surprise here might cause a revision in draft position, but usually they know about where a player will score.  Obviously some positions require more intelligence than others, some positions are more instinctive and driven by athletic abilities.  I'd bet the OLs have higher scores than DLs in general.

[OrangeAfroMan]

If that practice test is similar to the real one, I guarantee that time is what causes those low scores.  I'm a quick test-taker, whether I do well or not.  I only spent a larger amount of time on 1 question and still barely finished.  
I'd be willing to bet guys who score an 11 or something did mediocre, but wound up simply not answering the last 12 questions or so.  

[Cincydawg]

A surprising number of people, in college, are functional illiterates.  They read about as well as I read German back in the day, slowly, haltingly, and with considerable effort.  I'm sure a Wonderlic test in German would have given me a low score.

I knew a fellow in college who once suggested we study together, and I said OK. He labored over each question, I couldn't handle it, I wanted to move on.  I think he took tests that way also, I think he was smarter than I was, but I got better grades.  He could read well, he just wanted to consider every angle to every question.  We went to the same grad school and he flunked out after a year.

Have you money in hand and your order in mind.

[MrNubbz]

Full test, not quick.  I had 18 seconds left, I believe. 
I used a scratch piece of paper, but no calculator:
.

How many times you have to retake it ?  

[MrNubbz]

A surprising number of people, in college, are functional illiterates.  They read about as well as I read German back in the day, slowly, haltingly, and with considerable effort.  I'm sure a Wonderlic test in German would have given me a low score.

eins,zwei,drei,vier - to da pub and drink some Bier

[MarqHusker]

I wonder if you can see all the questions when you take it at nfl combine that can help, much like identifying the sections on lsat which are easier for you.  I recall taking wundellrlich w some guys and we were drinking and it was easy to save the more time consuming 3 or 4 problems to the end to ensure collecting easy points.   

[OrangeAfroMan]

How many times you have to retake it ? 

It's not difficult at all, everyone should try it.

[Cincydawg]

I wonder if you can see all the questions when you take it at nfl combine that can help, much like identifying the sections on lsat which are easier for you.  I recall taking wundellrlich w some guys and we were drinking and it was easy to save the more time consuming 3 or 4 problems to the end to ensure collecting easy points. 

This relates to "test taking ability" and tactics.  Some folks aren't good at it.

I had a boss once who was apparently dyslexic.   He'd fumble over the simplest terms if he tried to write anything, which he didn't do much.  Any meeting that required writing on the board he'd have me do.  He wasn't outwardly "dumb", he just couldn't write, and he told me he never read much of anything.

[OrangeAfroMan]

People being bad test-takers is BS.  

If someone has dyslexia or another actual issue, that's obviously real and an obstacle, but I see it as separate.

There are probably tens of millions of people with no such obstacle who claim to be bad test-takers who simply don't know the content and/or have a history of not knowing the content and therefore have no confidence in taking a test going forward.

If you know your stuff, you're not stressed and you'll get the answers right.  

[Cincydawg]

I disagree, I have known some smart people, like the guy I mentioned, who had poor test taking tactics.

I did better on standardized tests in HS than many of my peers and better than I likely "deserved".

If you spend too much time on a tough problem and don't finish, your tactics are bad.  This is probably minimized today because so many take courses to improve their scores,  we didn't back when.