Can We Guess Your Education Level?

By: Zoe Samuel
Estimated Completion Time
4 min
Can We Guess Your Education Level?
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About This Quiz

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Are you curious to see if we can guess my education level based on just a few questions? This fun quiz delves into your knowledge and background to make an educated guess about your academic achievements. Get ready to put your thinking cap on!

From basic math and language skills to general knowledge about the world around us, this quiz covers a wide range of topics to pinpoint your education level. Whether you have a high school diploma, a college degree, or beyond, this quiz is sure to challenge your intellect and make you think about your own educational journey.

So, are you ready to put us to the test and see if we can accurately guess your education level? Give it a try and see how close we come to figuring out just how much you've learned along the way. Who knows, you might be surprised by the results!

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A young man writes on a chalkboard filled with mathematical equations, showing individuality, intelligence and creativity
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What sort of smart are you?
Book smart
General smart
People smart
I'm not.
Young woman reading a book on a couch
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Do you love to read?
Yes, it is my happy place.
Right now it just feels like hard work.
Only magazines and things.
Only Twitter.
If you don't know something, how do you like to learn it?
Read a lot, study a lot, and talk to experts
Follow a curriculum
By doing
By someone telling me the key parts

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Do you have any framed certificates in your house?
Many, all for academics
High school ones, yes
Sporting ones and work-related ones
I have some sporting ones.
Have you ever been called elitist?
Constantly
Yes, which is weird considering how broke I am.
No, which is weird considering how comfortable I am.
I don't know what that is.
Are you in the top 5% of your field?
Yes, no point being here otherwise.
No, that seems so far away.
I don't know, but I know I'm good.
No.

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Are you more a Jack of all trades or a master of one?
Master of one. But I mean, supreme frigging master.
Jack of several, for now.
Master of one, Jack of one or two more.
I know jack about jack.
How many books were in your house growing up?
We had a library.
We had many shelves.
We had kids' books, not so many for adults.
A dozen I guess, maybe.
Did you ever have a really bad teacher?
Yes, just one
A few
Many
They all sucked.

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Does the idea of taking an exam make you want to puke?
No, I love them.
Yes, but I can handle it.
It literally made me puke. A lot.
Yes, so bad.
How's your self-discipline?
Rigid as steel
It's OK.
Very good
It comes and goes.
Do you fear debt?
Not so much any more
Yes. It'll come for me someday.
No, I have "good" debt.
Yes. They're coming for me.

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How much debt are you in?
All the debt
Some
Only my mortgage
Payday loans
Irrespective of what you know: do you think you know how to learn?
I have a great brain, yes.
I think so, but I can see I have a long way to go.
Yes, by doing.
I never thought about it like that.
Do you know your topic well enough to teach it?
Yes, and it may come to that.
Not yet.
Yes, but I make more doing what I do, so I won't.
Nope.

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Does it shock you that you could put all this time in and not make a living in your chosen field?
It shocks me, but does not surprise me.
I just feel like that won't happen to me.
No, I was shocked how much money there was.
I don't have a field, that's for fancy people.
Do you believe coal is coming back?
No.
I think so.
It sure is!
I don't care.
Do you have a conviction?
God no.
No, I got away with a warning.
Yes, but only a minor one.
I have done time.

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What do your folks do?
They are a doctor and a professor. And I mean literally - they are both, both of those things.
Dad is an electrician, Mom is a receptionist.
Dad is a plumber, Mom is a stay-at-home spouse.
Mom is a caring aid, Dad does odd jobs here and there.
Do you believe in the American dream?
I want to, but I'm not that naive.
I sure do! Why, is that not smart?
Yeah, despite the odds, I'm kind of living it.
No, that's childish.
Are you good with people?
Not really
Quite
Very
Nope

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Is the system fundamentally broken?
Yes, but you have to play by it anyway.
Yes, or I would already be finished with all this.
Yes, but not for me.
Yes, on every level.
How are you at standardized tests?
I scored over the maximum in all of them.
I do OK.
I suck so hard.
No idea.
What's something you watch for fun?
Opera
A comedy show
A musical. Yeah, I do culture.
NASCAR

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What's something you do for fun?
Golf
Happy hour at the bar
Video games
Basketball with my buddies at the local course
Does your partner have a degree?
Of course. We met studying.
No, but they will.
Yes, from community college.
No.
Would you care if your partner out-earned you?
I would not mind.
I would be ecstatic. More money for us!
Logically that's fine, practically, not so much.
They already do and it threatens me.

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Do you expect to own a home someday?
A small one.
One day, yes.
I have a downpayment already!
LOL no.
Would you move for work?
Already did.
Yes, but not yet.
No need, they need people like me everywhere.
No, I can't afford that.
Do you think the economy is going to get easier or harder for people in your educational bracket?
Harder, but less so than for others.
Much harder.
Easier, until the robot revolution is complete, then harder.
Things only get harder for us.

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