Pride Before A Fall
24 February 2007
How does the ground taste? Like dirt, obviously. I completed my literacy and numeracy tests yesterday, despite the fact that I grossly underestimated their difficulty. I arrived in Preston at around 12:06pm and decided to have a look around the town centre for a bit. Went into a couple of shops and read some magazines before heading to the test venue. I almost didn't make it in time because I got slightly lost. Eventually found the crowd of people standing outside a building at around 1:00pm. I was quite surprised at the amount of applicants there were. I'd guess around 40 were there at my session, and there were about 4-5 sessions that day. It started off with a spelling and grammar exercise where I had to pick out 15 mistakes from a page of text. This had to be done in 8 minutes so the pressure was really on. I scanned through the passage the first time and got 5 mistakes. A second time got me another 5. A third time however, didn't get me any. I was quickly running out of time and couldn't see any mistakes. I'm guessing that they were grammatical mistakes as I can usually see spelling mistakes pretty easily. I ended up with 12/15 identified, although I wasn't sure about one I'd written down. I was panicking a little, not sure what to expect of the numeracy test.
When it arrived it turned out to be pretty straight forward. I've always liked simple statistical mathematics more than languages. I zoomed through the first 16 questions until I got to one piece of crap problem. It asked me to identify which of the four statement was true. I checked, double checked, and mega-super-duper checked them but found they were all false! I just don't understand. Maybe I'd read the question wrong. But I swear they were all false statements. I sodded that question off and completed the last two before the time ran out. I was so angry. I asked if we would be getting the answers with our results and the woman looked at me like I'd just landed in a spaceship. It looks like we won't so I'll never know the solution to that question. That really pisses me off...
To cheer myself up I popped into GAME on the way back to the train station. I found a new copy of 'Makai Kingdom' for £4.99 and a second-hand copy of 'R: Racing' for £3.99. I decided to get them since they were so cheap. Had a nice surprise when the guy told me that 'Makai Kingdom' was in fact only £3.99. Bargain. I also saw loads of copies of Final Fantasy XII there. I was tempted but decided to hold off until the price comes down. There was an offer of trading in used games to get it for £14.99. I'll have to check that out later and see if I should do that. All in all it was a good day. I have a feeling that I passed the selection tests and will be looking forward to the final stage in March.
Posted byHocchan at 5:38 pm
