Why the citizenship test is not like getting on "Jeopardy!"

[tleberle]

Back in school, I was able to confuse a whole bunch of people into thinking that I was completely brilliant beyond measure. I was able to do this by reading something one or two times and then being able to quickly recall it on command. It was incredibly useful for tests where you had to match Clue A to Question Beta or for being able to loop the

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[shorann]

I appreciated the thread from your school experience to the relative ease of passing a citizenship test. Even if you were not good at synthesis or analysis, somewhere you learned how to write exceptionally well--and that is a compliment coming from a language arts teacher!