What's Your Responsibility Quotient?

Everyone's always telling you about how you need to be responsible, but responsible for what? Crumbling infrastructure in Latvia? Probably not, but maybe!

Anyway, here is a Responsibility Test. Choose the answer that corresponds most closely to your behavior, then add up your score to find out how responsible you are. If you don't get to the end, you automatically earn a score of 6, because, uh, we said so.

Timeliness
As a high school student who is also a teenager, you likely get about six hours of sleep when you need eight, unless you intend to do your four hours of homework. This category measures your ability to somehow get everything done on time. Pick the answer that best describes you.
A. "It's scientifically impossible for me to be late. If I am ever late, for anything, everyone I know will instantly assume I have died."
B. "When I'm late, I have a good excuse—Cat Explosion, Crazy Bus Driver Meltdown, etc."
C. "When I'm early, I have a good excuse—I accidentally went to class on my way to loafing, someone in class owed me a sandwich, etc."
D. "I literally have no idea what day it is. Should I be in school? Do I even go to school? Where am I?"

Organization
Do you know exactly how many #2 pencils you have? If so, just give yourself an A here and move on. If not, proceed to choose the option that sounds the most like you:
A. "I once alphabetized my lunch, and it was awesome."
B. "I clean my room and locker every few months, voluntarily. If you rifled through my backpack, you would find fewer than three (3) crumpled-up tests from classes I no longer have."
C. "I don't really know where anything is, but it's all in my locker somewhere, and if you give me an hour and a flashlight I can probably find it."
D. "I don't have separate possessions. I have a Pile. I reach in when I need something, and pull out a textbook, or maybe a fish, or a hamster ball stuffed with dirty clothes. It's impossible to guess."

Future Planning
Obviously this category won't be the same for everyone. Juniors are more worried about college than freshmen, who are thinking more about class selection. Sophomores are thinking about—I dunno—getting chased by bears or something. Just pick whichever sounds most like you:
A. "I've planned out my whole college career. I've already bought all my Christmas presents. I know what my spouse and I will name our dog, after we get a dog, after I get a spouse."
B. "I have a vague but thoughtful plan for my career, and it does not involve the film, music, or blogging industries."
C. "I own an unopened calendar from 2006."
D. "My most recent life plan was 'I want to be a dinosaur when I grow up.' It dates back to kindergarten and I have yet to improve upon it."

Studiousness
Note that this isn't just about smartness, but the effort you put in. If you never even have to study, choose what you'd do if everything suddenly got challenging.
A. "I'm a little behind in my studying... for sophomore year of college! Ha ha, I study three years in advance for everything."
B. "I study the really important stuff, and if there's time, I study the stuff I already know, just to be thorough."
C. "I study the really attractive people in my classes, and if there's time, I remember that oh crap I'm in the middle of a test and I frantically scribble down some answers."
D. "You know how every class has that one kid on the roll call nobody has ever seen? And the teacher always has to call out that one name anyway, knowing the kid has never been there, even once? I am that mystery person."

For every A, add 4 points.
For every B, add 3 points.
For every C, add 2 points.
For every D, add 1 point.

17+: Either you cheated or you incorrectly added four numbers. That is not very responsible at all.
14—16: You have a genius-level R.Q., which means that you are probably not very fun but will someday be our boss, so, uh, scratch that, you are totally fun and also quite attractive.
11—13: With a superior-level R.Q., you are well on your way to one of those respectable jobs like architect or reclusive wizard.
5—10: You are as responsible as the average student, which is not very much, but you're irresponsible enough for this not to bother you.
4: You have achieved a Zen-like level of irresponsibility. We'd use this space to chastise you, but we kind of envy you, and anyway you're probably long gone already. Good luck with your dinosaur plan!

So, how responsible are you?

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