April 6th, 2008 @ 8:56 pm
Money Matters
Quiz: Are You Smarter Than a 12th Grader? - US News and World Report
Every two years, the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy tests 12th graders practical money knowledge. The average score usually hovers around 52 percent. You can test yourself on these sample questions from the 2006 survey.
I got 6/6 correct, but they are all pretty obvious I think. Apparently there are lots of stupid people out there. I guess we didn’t need the survey results to tell us that though, look @ the housing situation. My parents always taught me that if it looks to good to be true with money, it probably is. Not in those words, but still, we weren’t about to ever go wasting money.
