College Purity Test
Undergraduates, and anyone who wants their university years scored rather than their whole life. Scored the second you finish.
50 questions · 4 min · no ads · no signup
18+. Written for university students 18 and over. Two statements name sex plainly and one block asks directly about drinking and drugs. 5 of the 50 are explicit. Under 18? Take the Teen Purity Test instead — same scoring, explicit items removed.
Check what you have done. Blank counts as no.
Rule-breaking & mischiefQuestions 1–12
Parties & nightlifeQuestions 13–21
Alcohol & drugsQuestions 22–29
Romance & datingQuestions 30–37
Sexual experienceQuestions 38–43
Online & modern lifeQuestions 44–47
Law & consequencesQuestions 48–50
What is the College Purity Test?
The College Purity Test is a list of 50 statements about things people have done, scored by subtraction: you start at 100, tick everything that has applied to you, and each tick takes 2 points off. The number left over counts the statements you did not tick, which is the whole of what it measures.
Nobody owns or certifies the list, no organisation maintains it, and it has never been validated as a measure of anything — what a purity test is and why there is no official version set out what is actually documented, which is less than the internet repeats.
How the College Purity Test works
You start at 100. Every statement you check costs 2 points.
There is no weighting and no hidden algorithm: 50 statements, 2 points each, 100 minus what you checked. Check every one and you finish on 0. Check nothing and you keep the full 100. A low number means more of the list has happened to you, not that you did anything wrong.
What the number does not measure: it counts experiences you have had, so it says nothing about your character, your values, your health or how good a partner, friend or student you are. Whether it measures anything at all is a longer answer, and it is not flattering to the format.
What the 50 statements cover
- Rule-breaking & mischief12
- Parties & nightlife9
- Alcohol & drugs8
- Romance & dating8
- Sexual experience6
- Online & modern life4
- Law & consequences3
The nine bands
Every whole number has its own page.
- UntouchedNothing on the list applied. That is the ceiling of the test.100
- Pure SoulA handful of the mildest statements applied, and nothing beyond them.95–99
- Mostly InnocentEnough checked to cover dating and kissing, and little past it.85–94
- CuriousDating is behind you and the bolder questions have started to land.70–84
- Average ExplorerThe middle of the scale: a third to just under half the list applied.55–69
- ExperiencedAbout half the list applied.40–54
- Wild CardThree fifths to three quarters of the list applied.25–39
- VeteranMost of the list applied; what is left is the specific and the rare.10–24
- Off the ChartsNearly everything on the list applied — the floor of the test.0–9
Other versions of the same idea
Same arithmetic, different question lists. Each one is scored and stored separately, so your results do not mix.
Rice Purity Test
Adults 18 and over who want the full, unedited 100-item list.
100 questionsTeen Purity Test
Students aged 13-17, and anyone who wants the version without the adult questions.
50 questionsCouples Purity Test
Couples at any stage who want a structured way to compare what they have actually done together.
50 questionsInnocence Test
Anyone who wants a life-experience score they can compare at a family dinner.
100 questionsLGBTQ Purity Test
LGBTQ readers and anyone who wants a list that does not assume how their dating life is shaped.
50 questionsAO3 Purity Test
AO3 readers and writers, and anyone who wants to know how far into fandom they have actually gone.
100 questionsQuestions people actually ask
How is this different from the Rice Purity Test?
Different questions, not fewer of them. The classic list runs 100 items and spends 60 of them on sexual experience, which is why two students with completely different university lives can finish within a point of each other. This list is 50 items at 2 points each: 12 about coursework and living with other people, 9 about parties, 8 about drinking and drugs, 3 about the times that went wrong. No statement is copied from the classic list, so the two scores are not versions of the same measurement.
What is a normal college purity score?
There is no target. What moves this score is time on campus rather than character: the 12 coursework and roommate statements start getting ticked in the first term, the party block fills in over the first two years, and the 3 law questions stay unticked for most people all the way through. That ordering is why first-years cluster high and finalists spread out, and why comparing across year groups tells you when someone arrived, not who they are.
Why did my score drop so much after one year?
Each box is worth 2 points, so ten new experiences is twenty points — and a first year at university is designed to hand you ten new experiences. Moving in alone can account for several: the fire alarm, the roommate argument, the all-nighter, the party where you knew one person. The drop measures how much happened, not how far you fell.
Can my university, my parents or my roommate see the result?
No. Every checkbox is handled in your browser, and by default what is recorded is the final number and which test it came from — no name, no account, no email, no address stored beside it. The one exception is an unticked box above the submit button that also sends the list of statements you checked, which feeds anonymous per-question counters and nothing else. Your own past results live on the history page, which is kept in your browser and vanishes when you clear your browsing data.
Is a low score something to worry about?
The number counts experiences, so a low one means a lot of this list has already happened to you. Two of the statements — the study drug taken from someone else, turning up to a lecture still drunk — are worth a second look on their own, not because of what they cost you here, but because those are the two on the list most likely to be describing something your university has support for. Every campus has a counselling or wellbeing service, and using it is not a disciplinary event.
Reading it as a class year
The blocks are in roughly the order most students reach them: coursework and roommates from week one, parties and drinking through the middle years, the law questions rarely at all. Taking it again each September turns the gap between two numbers into a rough record of what a year actually contained — which is the one comparison on this site that holds up, because it compares you with yourself on an identical list.
If you want the number everyone else quotes, take the original 100-question test as well, and read how that list lands on a campus before you compare it with a roommate.
After the number
Every score, explained
101 pages, one per whole number, with the bands and the questions that usually separate a 62 from a 58.
Live statistics
The distribution of scores submitted here, updated as people finish — no borrowed averages from other sites.
Writing on the test
Where the questionnaire came from, how the scoring shifted online, and what the numbers do and do not say.