Part one – taking the psychological test
Today, Vitalik and I decided to arrive even earlier than 10:00 a.m. to make sure there was no queue and that we had enough time.
For the psychological tests, we were taken to a small but fairly quiet room with a round table. The psychologist who gave us the tests turned out to be a fairly young woman. The test consisted of several parts: something like a questionnaire with seven questions, several long tests-surveys with about 200 questions each, and several tests in which we had to solve small problems, each of which also had more than a hundred questions-problems.
The psychologist explained the key points of the test to us. In the first test with seven questions, the sixth question was very important, in which we had to write our motivation for joining the contract service. She said that this question would be given special attention.
In the questionnaire test, she said that it was better to answer honestly, not to try to find the “right” answers. She said that there were no “right” answers. She also added that the test was designed in such a way that if we did not answer honestly, it would be obvious. After that, the psychologist left.
In the first test, I gathered my thoughts and thought carefully about how to answer the sixth question. I wrote the following:
“I sincerely want to help Ukraine and contribute to its speedy victory. I have been volunteering for eight years to make Ukraine better, raising funds and giving lectures on healthy lifestyles and family values. But I am afraid of trenches and fighting, and I cannot imagine myself killing someone. Therefore, I sincerely believe that I can help Ukraine as a clerk.”
The next few tests consisted of questions with several possible answers. As the psychologist said, there were no “correct” answers. A certain situation was described, and I had to choose the option that best applied to me. For example:
When someone says something offensive to me, I want to hit that person. There were five possible answers: 1. Definitely 2. Maybe 3. I don’t know 4. Probably not 5. Definitely not.
The group of tests reminded me a lot of mobile brain games. I quite liked such games. So at first I set about it with joy and enthusiasm. The first couple of hundred questions were easy. The second hundred were already without much enthusiasm. The third hundred were done with a feeling of “when will this end?”
The last test was to identify logical patterns. Each task had three columns with figures, with three figures in the first two columns. These figures were drawn according to a certain pattern and logic. The third column had two figures and eight options for what the third figure could be. You had to understand the logic and pattern according to which the figures were drawn in the first two columns and, based on this, guess what the third figure in the third column was. The first 80 percent of this test was quite simple and childish. Then it got harder. But the last 10 questions or so were just torture. Yes, it felt like someone was just brazenly mocking your brain. Vitalik couldn’t take it and answered some of the last questions with a “F**k it” attitude. I also answered some of the last questions almost at random.
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