Mechanical aptitude test

Stolen from a Fiat Coupe forum poster, who stole it from a Peugeot 205GTi
forum, who ... well, you get the gist, it's doing the rounds, but I don't
think it's been here yet.

A test on basic mechanical principles (which made 'O' level physics seem a
very long way away)

The pass mark is 80% - I'm a fuckwit with anything mechanical and got 66%,
so anybody lower than that should feel very bad indeed.

Complaints on coupe forum suggest that one of the answers near the end is
wrong, so beware.

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

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Whatever ...86%

I'd prolly do better if I wasn't a bit pissed

 

I'm just glad there were a few electrical questions.

I knew there was a reason I delegate to a man

Turin Brakes sum up my score...Emergency 72

seventy two...seventy two...seventy two...

 

Took about 10 mins - 88%.

 

76% .... and I am quite trolleyed, but did finish 2nd in a sports quiz
tonight - woot !

 

Now, now. You've got 6 days left to get your head around this mechanical
shit.

 

Lost the will to live after about 8 questions. I like to think I'd have got
more than 50% though heh.

 

86% (430 points), after 3/4 of a bottle of Chianti Classico Riserva.

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470 points, 94%. Can't be that difficult.

 

92% Could have done better if I had been awake.

 

74%. Oops.

 

Question 48, about why air enters a normally aspirated engine.

The quiz has the correct answer as being "suction from the piston going
down", but "atmospheric pressure" is a better answer it has been argued.

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Ah well, you see, I did it sober and got 66% and then did it again last
night, after I'd had a few (but without gaining any additional knowledge)
and got 78%.

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400 points = 80% in the cold early light. I found the cog gearing and
pulley leverage questions the hardest.
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410 points 82%
I should have concentrated that hard at school :/

I agree that on the induction question that the air moves because
atmospheric pressure is higher than the pressure in the cylinder. This
*sucking* thing is a load of crap.

 

Is the correct answer. The descending piston creates a partial vacuum
in the cylinder, but it's the atmospheric pressure (now greater than
the pressure in the cylinder) that pushes the air in. That's the
"physics" answer, I guess. The "mechanics" answer is that as long as
the air gets in there, who gives a flying **** whether it's blown or
sucked.

As it were.

92% - but a lot of it you could get by common sense and doing a lot of
twirly movements with your fingers on the screen.

 

88%

I would have argues that the later question with the big fulcrum in the
middle was incorrect as there was only a viable answer if you took it
that the force was acting at the extreme edge of the mass not the centre

 

Cog gearing was easy for me - pulleys are a closed book to me, and I'm
crap with electrickery as well.

 

68%, but I did get a bit bored and tended to just click a 'best guess'
answer rather than work it out properly.

And anyway, for anything mechanical I get a mechanic to do it for me.

 

Passed with 82%. I rock.