Careers guidance
Jul. 23rd, 2009 04:24 pmMy father's been clearing out some old paperwork, and found, among other things, some of my old school reports (could do better!) and the report on a careers guidance test thingy that my school laid on for us a year or so before O-levels. This was based on a combination of aptitude and personality tests. So I had a skim through it to see where I'd been going wrong all these years, and learnt:
You are interested in outdoor and physical fields - this may be reflecting a current liking for sport.
WTF? I never, ever, enjoyed PE lessons, apart from swimming, and wasn't much good even at that!
Naturally it must have been an entirely reliable, positively oracular, set of results - after all, it said (repeatedly) that I was highly intelligent, and also says, right at the front, "This report has been prepared by computer". But I do wonder where on earth they got the idea that I was sporty from.
You are interested in outdoor and physical fields - this may be reflecting a current liking for sport.
WTF? I never, ever, enjoyed PE lessons, apart from swimming, and wasn't much good even at that!
Naturally it must have been an entirely reliable, positively oracular, set of results - after all, it said (repeatedly) that I was highly intelligent, and also says, right at the front, "This report has been prepared by computer". But I do wonder where on earth they got the idea that I was sporty from.