Here’s a blast from the past for some of us.
How many of you can do this successfully?
Here’s an online link for the test: https://www.gotoquiz.com/can_you_follow_directions
Or print this off and then give it to your family and friends.
CAN YOU FOLLOW DIRECTIONS?
This is a timed test–you have 3 minutes only!
- Read everything carefully before doing anything.
- Put your name in the upper right-hand corner of this paper.
- Loudly call out your first name.
- Circle the word NAME in sentence two.
- If you have followed directions carefully to this point, call out “I have.”
- Draw five small squares in the upper left-hand corner.
- Put an “X” in each square.
- In your normal speaking voice, count from ten to one backwards.
- Put a circle around each square.
- Sign your name under the title of this paper.
- After the title write, “Yes, yes, yes.”
- Put a circle completely around the sentence number seven.
- When you reach this point, LOUDLY call out, “I AM THE LEADER IN
FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS.” - Put an “X” in the lower left-hand corner of this paper.
- Draw a triangle around the “X” you just put down.
- On the back of this paper, multiply 703 by 66.
- Loudly call out, “I AM NEARLY FINISHED. I HAVE FOLLOWED DIRECTIONS.”
- Draw a rectangle around the word “corner” in sentence six.
- On the reverse side of this paper, add 8950 and 9805.
- Put a circle around your answer, and put a square around the circle.
- Punch three small holes in the top of this paper with your pencil point.
- Underline all even numbers on the left side of this paper.
- Now that you have finished reading everything carefully, do only
sentences one and two
How did they do?
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Good one!
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haha, for a change, I actually read all the instructions first. I surprised myself!!
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Good one, Rich. I do the best I can to do what’s right, and sometimes that means following the instructions.
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