Very Stupid Questions- Help required

flexrider

Hi Gang

One of my sons at home(16+) is trying to fill in online for a part time job he is intrested in. the trouble is he has to complete these types of questions and does not how to answer this question


Your manager has handed out targets for the quarter and asked all team members to review their daily performance against the breakdown of this target, to check how they are doing, what do you do?
a) Calculate the required weekly performance so that you can understand if your performance by week so far has met the required standard.

b) Calculate how the quarterly target translated into a daily target and check against this daily to ensure that it is achieved.

c) Wait for your manager to provide you with the information on the breakdown of the quarterly target and how to achieve this.

d) Check your performance against your colleagues, rather than against the quarterly target, as it’s likely to be more accurate.


any ideas on what the right and wrong answer is? Why do they make it so darn hard for a part time job these days? whatwould you choose no wonder ther so many outof work youngsters with questions like this

thanks

Sambucus_Nigra

The question is

review their daily performance against the breakdown of this target

So - b

LadyMissA

I'd say
b) Calculate how the quarterly target translated into a daily target and check against this daily to ensure that it is achieved.

This is because the question says 'asked all team members to review their daily performance against the breakdown of this target'

this is the only answer that is actually taking a daily total

ian103

B at a guess

flexrider

Thanks ladies and gents of the MSE gosh! Im starting to realise im a old man now seeing my boy applying for jobs haha! but it is really hard for these teenagers to gain work when they just left school and what not.

Thank you

98jdougl

These questions are worded in a way which makes them sound complicated but they are really very simple - your son would have had similar kinds of questions during exams at school where you have to pick out the right information from the question.

Right away you are going to discount c - it shows no initiative. Next it is asking you to check progress against the target - so you can discount d. A and B are the only questions which are to do with working out progress towards the target. A is working it out weekly, B is working it out daily - since the question asks how you would go about finding your daily progress - the answer would be B.

It's just a matter of elimination.

I hope that made some sense - I know what I mean in my head a lot of the time but can't put it across well hehe.

flexrider

98jdougl wrote: »

These questions are worded in a way which makes them sound complicated but they are really very simple - your son would have had similar kinds of questions during exams at school where you have to pick out the right information from the question.

Right away you are going to discount c - it shows no initiative. Next it is asking you to check progress against the target - so you can discount d. A and B are the only questions which are to do with working out progress towards the target. A is working it out weekly, B is working it out daily - since the question asks how you would go about finding your daily progress - the answer would be B.

It's just a matter of elimination.

I hope that made some sense - I know what I mean in my head a lot of the time but can't put it across well hehe.

Cheers mate im too old for all this questions as for me even in my own business i do the old tradition of interviews and non of this questions

My son he sent off the final application 20 mins ago so will keep u all posted on his application how he does and that

Thanks Guys
flex

heretolearn_2

These sorts of questions are easy really if you realise they are a test of English comprehension and not a test of your judgement/knowledge of work procedures/what would you really do in this situation.

He has to do a check against daily targets. The only option that mentions daily targets is B. Simples.

He should have some experience of English comprehension questions at school - or at least I hope so, we used to do loads of these on all sorts of topics, and it's such an important skill. Next time he has to do this sort of application tell him to bear this in mind and check what sort of question it is - just a simple English comprehension, or a genuine decision-making one.

somethingcorporate

If it's multiple choice and English comprehension then as H2L says the answer contains the words of the question. It's logical and good advice.

To spin this on its head for other questions - it's hard to avoid answering directly if you use the words of the question in the answer. I used this logic when at university writing anything from short answers to massive essays.

flexrider

UPdate

Thanks everone My son never got the job but he is working with his mum on the market stalls near our home part time.

Thanks again
Flex

labayu

It was a trick question!

Your son needed to write in:
"e) I'd ask my dad to do it for me and when he didn't know the answer he'd ask people on the internet who would do it for me."