The Rice Purity Test for college students
The test came out of a university and still reads like it: 100 statements, one point each, and a long middle section about sex, drinking and getting caught. This page is about what that list looks like from a dorm — which questions a term can actually reach, which ones no undergraduate can honestly check yet, and what the number is worth when it gets passed around a group chat.
There is no separate college version, and that is fine
The list you want is the standard one on the front page. It is the 100-question version, scored from 100 downwards, one point per statement that applies to you. The teen version exists because 33 of these 100 questions are explicit enough to sit behind an eighteen-and-over notice, not because the classic list is aimed at anyone older than a student.
Nothing about your college is recorded when you submit. The site stores which test you took, the score, and the time — no name, no school, no IP address. That is also why this page cannot show you a “college average”: age and institution are not collected, so any figure broken out that way would be made up.
Where the 100 points actually sit
Counted straight off the question list. Since every statement is worth one point, the count in each block is also the most points that block can move your score.
| Block | Questions, and points at stake |
|---|---|
| Sexual experience | 28 |
| Romance & dating | 21 |
| Alcohol & drugs | 15 |
| Law & consequences | 15 |
| Rule-breaking & mischief | 10 |
| Parties & nightlife | 9 |
| Online & modern life | 2 |
Which blocks a campus year reaches
The sexual block is the single largest on the test and it sits in one run in the middle of the list, so it is the block that decides most of the spread between two students answering honestly. Around it, three others move fast in a first year away from home: the alcohol questions, the nightlife questions, and the small rule-breaking ones about skipping class, cheating on work and being somewhere you were not supposed to be.
The law-and-consequences block splits in two, and the split matters more than the block. Its early items are ordinary campus material — a fake ID, being somewhere you were not supposed to be, being banned from a venue. Its last stretch is not: causing a crash, lying to a police officer, being arrested, being convicted. Those close the test out and stay unchecked for most people at any age. If your score has stalled and stopped dropping, that tail is usually why — the statements left over are not experiences you are missing, they are court dates.
The other structural detail worth knowing: the list opens with the mildest items it has — hand-holding, a first kiss, a date. They are worth one point each like everything else, so the top of the scale is spent on them first. Staying above 95 means none of those opening statements applied, not that the rest of the list was survived. What is a good Rice Purity Test score? goes further into why the ranges do not sort people the way the phrasing implies.
How the number gets read on a floor, and how to read it
No results have been submitted here yet, so there is no average to compare against. When there is one it appears on the statistics page and on the average score page, read straight from the database.
What actually happens on a floor is that four people compare four numbers and decide the lowest one wins or loses, depending on the room. The arithmetic underneath is duller: a 20-point gap between two people is twenty statements, and the test never says which twenty. One person can reach 60 through a long relationship and another through a year of parties, and the two 60s have almost nothing in common.
- Compare blocks, not totals. “I checked most of the drinking questions” is information. “I got a 58” is a hash of it.
- Expect the number to fall over four years and stop reading into it. Most items are one-way: once a statement is true it stays true, so the score only ever goes down with time.
- A score you did not choose to share is not a score anyone is owed. Nothing here posts your result anywhere; it is on your screen until you screenshot it.
Every score from 0 to 100 has a page describing which part of the list that number usually covers, which is a better answer to “what does a 62 mean” than anyone in the room will give you.