Miller Analogies Test

I'm taking the real thing at 14:00 today. Wish me luck. For those of you who have already, I appreciate it.

First misconception of the day:

I thought I'd be able to take a practice test online this morning in preparation for taking the real thing this afternoon.

WRONG.

All of the test prep websites I visited wanted me to pay to take the test. Do I really need to pay to take a practice test when I still have to pay to take the real thing? I thought they'd have a bunch of questions available online for free. Oh no. Every one has to make a buck or 30. Buy the prep guide. Buy the practice test. It's a conspiracy, I tell ya!!

I'm a smary guy, so....how hard could it be? I'll find out soon enough. One hundred twenty questions in one hour. Can I do it? How will I do? Check back here later today and I'll tell you how I think I did.

Update 16:15- The test was easy, hard difficult and down right annoying. Some analogies were obvious, others basic and some were just flat out rediculous. Who uses some of these words in every day speech, anyway? Some of the words I had no clue what their meanings were, let alone how they related to other words in the analogy.

That being said, I think I did okay. I need a 400+ for a grade in order to meet the school's requirement. But I'm not sure if that's out on an 800 scale like the SAT is or what. The catch on this test is this: Only 100 of the 120 questions will count towards my actual score. The other 20 questions are test questions which might be incorporated as "real" questions in the future. The problem is you can't tell which 20 questions are the test questions. DTS shoud get my score in about two weeks.

I took the test at Rivier College in Nashua. There were four of us in the room, not counting Sister candy bar, a nice, sweet old lady who probably has been administering these tests since time began. The other guy there wanted to get into a criminal justice program at UMASS Lowell and two ladies, obviously friends, who want to get into the psychology program at Salem State College. The woman sitting on my right was knock out gorgeous and her name was Jessica Shaw. She was wearing a black top and a pink Red Sox hat. She had long fingers (no rings) with pink nail polish that matched her hat. Alas, I could not get any more information about her, as I left before she did. Oh, well.