From Leo Sturman
Further to your correspondence on intelligence tests
(19 August, p 51), in my
eleven-plus exam I was presented with four clock faces, mirror reversed, and
told to write the times they showed. So I held up the paper, reversed, to the
light from the window—and the images were corrected. The supervising
teacher told me I was cheating and crossed out the question on my paper, and
presumably the marks.
I was totally demoralised and did badly. What was being measured?
Tumut, New South Wales
