Adulthood tests

Adulthood tests or Maturity Tests are a long series of tests and brain and body scans that constitute the common barrier to adulthood in UNEGA owned countries and companies. Some are math and logic puzzles, but these are fairly simple as math and advanced logic are assumed to be taken care of by the link or brain software.
Most of the testing is home-ec and health focused. It tests skills for everyday living, and the subject's maturity level to make sure they’re developed enough to function independently, handle things like driving a pogo (if they chose to learn to do so), having sex responsibly, entering politics, eating healthily, and above all choosing more advanced education. 
Some things like sexual maturity and some sectors of education include physical scans and brainscans to see that one has very literally matured and is no longer developing. A very smart child might pass everything mental at 11 but would not be able to pass the test until they were physically mature. Such a child might accept a “pass-minus” in order to pursue advanced education early, and then test into the other maturities later in life. 
Much of the testing is to determine what the subject would enjoy doing, be good at, and so on. Some is like the MMPI, and there is a Verhoeven Violent Predilection Test (Which Violet barely passes, and doesn’t pass at full marks that would allow her to be a police officer).
One can take the tests ad infinitum, and can also accept half passes, such as a pass minus the right to drink alcohol without an absorption implant if one has a dependency prone physiology, or a pass minus the right to handle firearms if one doesn’t mark low enough on the VVPS. Violet was thus a pass-minus rather than a full adult. This is rare as most people will have themselves reprogrammed to pass fully, and somewhat stigmatized though it’s easy enough to keep secret provided one doesn’t try to do what they’re not allowed to.
If one ranks too highly on the VVPS, they may be subject to neurorecalibration.
Being “mostly” mature is very uncommon and manifests the first sign of Violet’s more intense individuality and assertive nature, she’d rather be who she is than be someone slightly different who’s allowed to follow in her father’s footsteps.
There are many subsequent tests such as the license to drive a pogo and the right to have children. The first adulthood tests were primarily concerned with childbearing, but by 2190 adulthood tests were no longer concerned with childbirth licensing, that was delayed for a second set of tests to be applied separately for after attaining adulthood. They no longer have any particularly political or antireligious biases.
The results of the adulthood tests, when successful, are the first reports a person receives on their own rather than being received by their parents.
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