Posted on 04/24/2012 10:01:45 PM PDT by grundle
This is largely a reading comprehension test.
Tinder box of the nation?
The point of putting obvious questions on a test is that if you get more than a few of them wrong, you are an idiot and do not belong.
Why don’t they let us see the most difficult questions, as well?
Looks like the FDNY is not only racist, but idiotic too.
...there are some very tough words in those questions, some have different meanings in ebonics. /s
Sorta reminds me of the Army leadership inventory test.
I would rather:
A. Lead men into combat
B. Arrange flowers
No one could ever psyche that one out.
Exactly, and you have to be able to read to pass it.
That is the problem right there.
Kids come out of school without the ability to read and wonder why no one wants to hire them.
They fill the ranks with idiots who passed the dumbed down test and then they wonder why these idiots cannot pass a promotional exam, so they dumb that down too.
Anything to make their quota.
The questions are obviously racist. They cause white people to laugh so hard they cannot concentrate.
And NOW you know why Holder thinks this test is racist!
Everyone knows that "written English" is the white cracker language. If they really wanted to help the poor, down trodden black people they would have written the test in Ebonics.
Do I really need the close sarcasm tag?
Note how they feel the need to explain what “ventilate” means in question 10 and “salvage” in question 6!
That’s as sad as the questions themselves.
Obviously, the tests should not be multiple choice. There should only be ONE ‘choice’, which would be the correct amswer. Having the applicants make decisions, as to the right answer, is clearly raycis.......
This question as well as most, if not all, of the others in this article test reading comprehension....jmho
Wouldnt he be doing pirouettes with sparklers? That’s how they do it here.
DING DING DING... I think you've just hit on exactly why the test is "racist".
When Obama says that it is racist to give a written exam, what he is implying is: blacks are stupid, ignorant and or illiterate.
The Fire Dept DOES get applicants who cannot even read at the second grade level, thanks to the NYC public school system.
I used to volunteer in my local high school to tutor and help kids with homework. Every single one of “Obama’s sons” could not even read or write at an elementary school level. If you asked them to read a paragraph and answer multiple choice questions that were already answered, they barely did better than guessing. And these were the kids that cared enough to go to tutoring. In 4 years, I only met one black kid that could perform at a real high school level and he wasn't an American. He ended up getting full scholarship to Brown.
Writing and reading are clearly racist tools of the white man against African Americans.
at the time a test is announced, a bibliography of books is listed from which the questions will be created. B&N also has many “study” books. just read the material. The “average” white candidate scores in the 90’s. “average” black fails. WHY?
You did not copy the entire question. In the question it told the test taker that the first thing to do was apply pressure.
In other words the question was also the answer.
“Why don’t they let us see the most difficult questions, as well?”
Maybe they’re only marginally more difficult which would imply that those passing are still very special people.
Still time to move to the country.
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