This being exam time in college (or winding up in some cases, and I apologize for creating post-college nightmares among readers), I present two political tests.

First comes from ABC News, Presidential Match-O-Matic, supposedly to predict your presidential choices. The first time I took such a test was before the 1980 Wisconsin presidential primary, when the Wisconsin State Journal ran a huge piece on positions of each of the presidential choices, which included Democratic candidates Jimmy Carter and Edward Kennedy and Republican candidates (among others) Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

At the time, I wasn’t a Reagan fan for a reason I can’t remember now. (It may have had to do with his age.) I couldn’t vote yet, but at the time I was supporting Bush. Just for the mental exercise, though, I read the several issues and positions and picked the position with which I most agreed on each issue. So it shocked me to find that I agreed with Reagan more than Bush, and the margin wasn’t close.

In the case of Match-O-Matic, I write “supposedly” because after taking the test, my first through third choices supposedly are:

1. Michelle Bachmann.
2. Mitt Romney.
3. Ron Paul.

Maybe it says something about me, but the theme of those three should be “One of These Things Is Not Like the Other.” I find the test flawed because there was more than one answer I would have chosen for at least one question, and because, to be blunt, I will not be voting for Bachmann if she’s still a candidate when Wisconsin’s presidential primary rolls around. Bachmann is as qualified to be president as Barack Obama was.

The other test is the Political Compass test, a larger version of the World’s Smallest Political Quiz. On the latter, I’ve consistently scored 100 on the Economic questions and 90 or 100 on the Personal questions, which according to them puts me squarely in the Libertarian field.

On the Political Compass, I scored a 7.38 (on a scale of –10 to 10) on “Economic Left/Right” (minus would be to the left), and a –1.79 on “Social Libertarian/Authoritarian,” which I guess says I’m sort of a social libertarian. I would have thought I’d have scored more in the libertarian direction, but answers on these kinds of tests do vary based on the test-taker’s mood on a particular day.

Take them yourself and you can decide how exact, or not, they are.