What is the hardest exam in the world? | Hacker News Reader

What is the hardest exam in the world?

wiki.answers.com

9 pointskeltecp1111 comments

Someone should create a "everything" test, which pulls graduate level information from every topic maths, statistics, physics, chemistry, biochemistry, physiology, medicine, therapy, psychology, english, history, art, accounting, business, marketing etc etc.

I'd love to take it just to see quantitatively how much I don't know.

[citation needed]

The "Titan Test" may be considered the single most difficult exam ever created. Supposedly able to calculate your IQ to one in a million.

http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/titan.html

The linked answers are confusing the concepts of competitiveness and difficulty. The IIT-JEE is very competitive. There are millions of students competing for thousands of seats. That alone doesn't make the exam difficult. It just makes it competitive.

The one for which you are not prepared.

Every exam is easy if you adequately prepared.

For the spatial memory impaired: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_Kingdom#...

The Putnam Prize Examination is certainly harder than any examination for a particular professional grade. Examinations like MCat, lsat, etc. have to pass a certain percentage of those who register. As an exam of a competition, the Putnam Exam has such no constraints.

http://math.scu.edu/putnam/

I would assume there are many other such exams in other fields.

I was going to mention the Putnam as well. The median for the test is sometimes zero. (Keep in mind that only college students with serious interest in mathematics attempt the exam.) My freshman year of college, the median score was three points (out of 120), and this was considered an "easy" year.

I was interested, but browsing the rules

>> The competition is open only to regularly enrolled undergraduates, in colleges and universities of the United States and Canada, who have not yet received a college degree

Anyway, does anyone have a resource to some examination. Just curious to know how hard it is.

Nice example. I remember hearing that the median score is often 0 out of 120 points, and Google search results confirm that.

I was thinking it would be the Dutch driving exam...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com