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And the test is actually rather easy. It's an undergraduate test.


It's probably not 'easy' for the average human out there. I would expect >> 90% of humanity to fail that test.


I have highly technical graduate and undergraduate degrees (in CS-adjacent field) and a decade of experience doing software development part time, but no direct experience with quantum computing (or much beyond an undergraduate physics class and an intro CS class in terms of directly related study), and consider myself a better-than-average test-taker. I could get 1D, 1E, 1F and 1T by intuition, 1J by actual knowledge, 1P by tautology, and had roughly no shot at the open-ended questions.


> much beyond an undergraduate physics class and an intro CS class in terms of directly related study

That's puts you in < 1% of the population right there.


That was my point (in agreement with you): I have no shot, and I'm well into the 99th percentile for this test.


Right, forgive me I understood it the other way around.




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