BBC maths test. Try it (Irelatively harder than last weeks English test)

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I thought it was quite hard....got 16

Same as me! - the alegbra questions were horrible, but then I didn't do well at school either. However, I am doing S151 - Maths for Scientists with the OU and should do better next time

I got 19

Is everyone on mumsnet taking the test? I can't open the link!

I'm impressed! I consider myself pretty good at maths but some of them were difficult for me. Mind you it is 32 years since I did O level maths

Full house - but then I have a maths degree so perhaps shouldn't boast!

That is awful, there wasn't one single question that I knew the answer to. I got 5 right but they were guesses

flippin 'eck! having not done any maths since I was fifteen, I got 14/20 - one correct answer was a pure guess though!

my dad would n't be proud of me - he was maths teacher to a certain mathematician on a certain channel four words and numbers quiz show......!

WOOOOHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 20/20!! I loved maths at school. Yes I'm a weirdo.

I got 14 and I guessed a few of them - feeling quite thick now

I got 15. Did you do it all in your brain????

no, I used a calculator - and my brain STILL throbs!

Still can't load it. I like Maths too.

16 - totally lost the plot with simplifications and 'to the power ofs'

18 and no calculator

couldnt remember about isoceles triangle though

Sweetheart - Yes.... you should see the post-it note scribbles all over my desk now! I looked impressively like I was working.

Hate maths but needed to prove something. Ended up closing the window at question 5

I got 19 too. It was tricky though and I did use a calculator

20, but did resort to pen and paper for a couple.

What standard is it meant to be though - that's the bit I didn't pick up - is it 11+ or GCSE or what?

Ladymuck - It doesn't say anything about not being able to write stuff down does it? I mean I don't think it's mental arithmatic. I don't think it even says anything about not using a calculator!

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Forgot what factors were.

I got 15 - at least 2 were total guesses though, and I did cheat and use a calculator for one of them!!!!

Got 16 with no calculator or pen/paper

rowlers - so did I (did I ever know, I wonder..?)
I want all my old brain-cells back, NOW