Lets see what ya'll garage heads know. 50 mutiple choice questions.

http://www.forddoctorsdts.com/quizzes/MechanicalAptitude.php

I do have a problem with at least one question (multiple right answers). But I passed with an 88% anyway.





[Edited on August 8, 2008 at 11:15 AM. Reason : gg]

8/8/2008 11:14:02 AM

i got a 96, i didnt read the balloon question right, and the fan one is just bullshit

8/8/2008 11:35:11 AM

92

agreed the fan question was bullshit... I assume "opposite direction" is opposite from operational direction, but they do not specify.

8/8/2008 12:07:23 PM

wow i feel dumb. only an 86%. but im not a mechanical engineer so whatever

8/8/2008 12:45:29 PM

too many Q's.. i did like 12, missed 1 (very first one, lol, i went back and was like... i know i put the right answer).

8/8/2008 1:00:04 PM

88%

But i realized I missed a couple after I clicked submit :-(

8/8/2008 1:06:11 PM

98... fan question i assume.

8/8/2008 1:56:36 PM

yay, a 90

8/8/2008 2:18:13 PM

88

8/8/2008 2:27:22 PM

82 but i knew i screwed up ona few and then realized i coudnt go back.

8/8/2008 2:28:27 PM

86

I think I messed up a couple of the more automotive specific questions, I'm sure I nailed all of the physics/visual logic questions. Meh.

8/8/2008 3:01:36 PM

i got an 88, i didn't look to see which ones i missed. i know i missed the first battery question, but couldn't go back and change it.

8/8/2008 6:49:58 PM

you can see which ones you missed.. its one of the tabs on the bottom of the test i think

8/8/2008 6:55:00 PM

the fan question is ok if you assume "opposite" equals "opposite from operational"

the bullshit one is the one about why air enters a cylinder during the intake stroke (suction from the piston pulling it in, or atmospheric pressure pushing it in...what the hell?)

[Edited on August 8, 2008 at 8:29 PM. Reason : adsfads]

8/8/2008 8:29:08 PM

^yeah, i was like wut?

8/8/2008 10:34:13 PM

86. fun quiz. I miss this kinda stuff. Loved the pulley qs... man, Law school blows.

I'll only claim that 4 pts/2qs were due to bs:

-fan q is bs
-"suction" is layperson for "experiencing a relative vacuum/lowER pressure environment, so the cylinder q was kinda bs, but I guess if your physics teacher asked you that question, they'd prefer that answer, so ok.

the remaining 10/5 were me just being an idiot
-I didn't bother to count the numbers of teeth on any of the gear q's, I just assumed it was 4:1. Looks like it was only 2:1 in each case. so.... I'm dumb... (3 qs)
-and I missed the worm gear q... durrrr. oh, and the first one... (2)

8/9/2008 8:23:35 AM

ok, i re-entered all my answers so i could see what i missed...

i missed the fan question, which i think is poorly worded (i put opposite direction, meaning opposite from operational, but that's not what they meant).

i also missed the venturi question. brain fart on my part...i knew the slower flow would be at higher pressure for a compressible fluid, but i couldn't remember about an incompressible fluid. i had a feeling it was the same, but i answered "tube B", anyway...and got it wrong.

at any rate, i got a 96, so i guess that's ok. i don't even count the fan question--i understood what they were getting at, and just got tangled up in their sloppy semantics. I shouldn't have missed the venturi question, although i guessed on the block & tackle question, so I guess it evens out.

8/9/2008 10:27:48 AM

88, wish there was a 'back' button but oh well.

8/10/2008 2:01:02 AM

86

8/10/2008 11:04:12 PM

90%

not that great

8/10/2008 11:22:52 PM

74%

was trying to go quickly, lunch break and all. probably lost my ass on the pulley section

8/11/2008 12:40:58 PM

I'm actually coming up with an aptitude test for our machinist and millwright applicants

8/13/2008 8:34:42 AM