Would You Pass the Information Literacy Test?

Grundelfeldsten writes "The Educational Testing Service -- the maker of the SAT and the GMAT -- has a new test called the Information and Communication literacy assessment. The test is designed to measure your "ability to make sense of the multiple streams of information that our computers throw at us every day," according to a Wired News reporter who just took it and described the process. The questions focus on completing tasks with Internet technologies, like using search engines efficiently and weeding out irrelevant email messages. Are such tasks really tied to technology? Or is "Information and Communication literacy" just a way for ETS to make money by selling more tests?"

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Re:Sample Question

[tomhudson]

In this case, the answer is:

F. Slashdot confirms it - ETS is dying!

... Guess they're still trying to work out the ??? ... Profit thing.

But that's okay, because only old north koreans and PHBs would put any stock in that shit anyway.

New Question:

An ETS-certified flash-using webmonkey is drowning. Do you:

A. Throw him a brick
B. Take your foot off his neck
C. Continue reading your newspaper

BTW: The correct answer is D: Fuck his girlfriend.