Economics

As some of you may know, today almost all job, internship, or placement applications in the early stages are done purely online. You apply online, you send your documents online, you are evaluated online, and only once you are in, say, stage three or four will you meet someone face to face.

I am currently looking for internships and many of these placements have online tests to evaluate your knowledge and application of information that is specific to the information. What I have found more and more is that these tests focus heavily on mathematics and economics. In fact, the one I took today was pure economics. I have never taken an economics class or had much interest in understanding it beyond supply and demand theory so clearly I was not made for the test.

I had 21 minutes to answer 21 multiple choice questions about economic situations and graphs that I needed to interpret or calculate something from. I sat there reading the stuff out loud and speaking to myself because I have never taken anything as hard as that 21 minute test in my life. I sat there thinking, what on earth was that? how does that work? how can i calculate that? what is going on? and i didn't even understand the terms they used, like Revenue..... I shouldn't be allowed near economics.