What Is the Rice Purity Test?
A 100-item checklist, not a moral grade
What “purity” means here, why it is named after Rice University, what MPS stands for, and what a result can and can’t tell you.
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Rice Purity Test Guides
Everything we've written about the Rice Purity Test in one place: what the test is, every question explained, what scores mean, how they vary by age, and where the test came from. Each guide leads with its answer, so the line under each title is the short version.
Before you take the test
What the test is, how to answer it honestly, and every question in advance.
How to Take the Rice Purity Test
Answer for your whole life, not the last year
How to handle ambiguous items, the one mistake that makes scores too high, and what to do with the number afterwards.
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All 100 Rice Purity Test Questions, Explained
6 themes, notes on 55 items
The full list grouped by theme, with plain-English notes on slang and confusing wording such as “kissed horizontally”, “sensual context” and MPS.
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After you get your score
What your number means and how it compares with other people’s.
Rice Purity Test Score Meaning
Score = 100 − items checked
How the score is calculated, the chart from 100 down to 0, and a lookup that answers “is my score good?” for any number.
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Average Rice Purity Score by Age
Estimated average: 62–68
Estimated typical ranges for 18, 19–22, 23–25, 26–30 and 31+, what counts as normal, and exactly how the estimates are made.
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Background
Where the test came from.
The History of the Rice Purity Test
Began as a 1924 student-newspaper survey
From a ten-question survey in the Rice Thresher to a 100-item TikTok trend, with links to the original sources.
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