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VIIIThe SceneLevel 1 of 50
Examination VII

The Scene

Construction from Description

A place — a house, a garden, a harbour — is described to you, a sentence at a time. Build it in the mind's eye and hold it. Then four drawings: one is the place.

TrainsConstruction from language: building a place in the mind from sentences alone and holding it against interference.

Stop rule

Scenes gain details and the sentences stop waiting. A scene held climbs the ladder of forty rungs. Ends at the second scene lost at a rung.

Duration3–4 min
Lifetime best—
Institution median—
The next mark—
FacultyMemory

Train to the edge. Recover. Return.


The bands, and the figure that reaches each

Levels run 1 to 100. Level 100 is above Sovereign; nobody has reached it.

  1. The summit—100
  2. SovereignΔ 6,40096
  3. PreeminentΔ 3,50081
  4. EliteΔ 1,90065
  5. ExceptionalΔ 1,05050
  6. DistinguishedΔ 67538
  7. ProficientΔ 45028
  8. CompetentΔ 30017
  9. DevelopingΔ 150below 1
  10. NoviceThe floorbelow 1

Infinitely scalable difficulty. It never stops getting harder.