January 14, 2008

• 88% for a B+...not bad. There were a few tricky ones in there, but I got #13.
• 80%. Which where I come from, is an A-, not a B-. Nevertheless, not bad for an arts grad.
• Some of the answers had such small nuances that it made the questions difficult to answer. I got a B. (ITRW, I got straight As in sciences.)
• And 13 was a shitty question, given those alternatives.
• I HEART SKRIK
• LOL!! I don't need no stupid quiz to make me feel dumb!! I -- oh.
• A C? Motherfucker! I thought I was coming out with an A.. Stupid science. I'm going back to God.
• Back in the dusty reaches of memory, I seem to recall getting a B in ACTUAL Grade 8 science, as well.
• 92%, A-. EAT IT, Middle Schoolers! :)
• *grabs straw, shoots spitball at TP*
• 76%. When taking the test, I had an interesting experience of once having known the answers. These tests highlight the "use it or lose it" model of cognition. I doubt an 8th grader could make a decent pot of coffee, drive a stick shift, maintain an understanding of the ongoing mortgage crisis, and correctly identify when to rasterize a layer in Photoshop. All of which I do on a daily basis. That being said, I wouldn't be entirely opposed to some kind of voluntary "basic school-age knowledge" certification exam for grown-ups. It's the only scenario in which I can envision myself bothering to look up and remember the difference between igneous and metamorphic rock.
• I got an 88, and I feel like I guessed on most of the answers. Pardon me while I go buy a lottery ticket.
• 92%. Me and TP will be up here at the front of the class if anyone needs us. Also, #13 was fine. Insects are (in general) not good for trees, and fruit certainly ain't the plant's food storage. Simple elimination.
• *hangs in the back with the cool kids, fingers a ciggie he'll share with kit in the john later*
• That's not the only thing you'll share in the john. Hi-o
• *writes "for a good time call Koko" on the bathroom wall
• *adds "'s Mom" beneath*
• 92% Bring on those annoying fifth graders now. I'll smash 'em to smithereens!
• Koko's mom gives me a metamorphic rocky.
• B- If there are 26 questions, why are all scores multiples of 4?
• Sorry. 8th grade math quiz is next door. :)
• 73%!? Ah, stoopit learning-stuff tests!
• Ha! Dang I'm good. Missed the one on acceleration. Physics sucks! Biology Rules! (and 13 was easy peasy)
• 84 and I swear there was something up with that rock one.
• 92% A-. Load up that straw, rocket88 baby... Oh yeah I have a degree in science
• 92%. I accept this A- on behalf of opera singers everywhere.
• I refuse to take this test on the grounds I may embarrass myself. It's my person Fifth Amendment.
• A fucking C. That's why you can find me in the art room. *Runs from lab shouting "I LOVE TEACH!!!" in a comedy voice*
• *Considers poking fun at tracicle, but thinks better of it upon catching a glimpse of the banhammer.*
• *waves banhammer to distract from typo in above comment*
• I think question 13 is buggy (hopefully not the case for the whole test). I swear it was marked wrong the first time I took the test, much to my annoyance, but when Underpants complained I went back to double check which one he was complaining about. It still didn't like my answer. Then Weezel sounded so confident in his response to #13, I had to go back and have a third look, since I was sure the test writer was an idiot at that point, and this time it liked my answer just fine.
• B-, sums me up really. I thought I was a geek!
• B-, which means Pallas Athena spanked me academically just like she always did when we were ACTUALLY in school together. Wait a minute, that came out sounding slightly wrong
• No, no -- it was just riiiiiight...
• *cues Verdi soundtrack*
• The answer to every question was something you should just know. If this is the level of science education, actual education, education with a teacher and a school for eight year olds, education on which money was spent then holy Jesus help us. It's hard to believe we are not just born knowing this stuff. Question? Attracting insects is quite clearly a proxy for dispersal. I imagine that was your 'wee beef'. All very obvious when you're me. Come on folks infants know all of this before their first diaper change. Apart from the 'respire' question obviously, I know PHDs that can't answer that. And the one about metamorphic rock, no one could have gotten that right, who the hell as ever heard of metamorphic rock for flips sake? Geologists? Pah still my point stands. No wonder gravity is just a theory amongst US kid. And adults.
• I could have sworn the final velocity was 0mps I near the finaal velocity of a dropped object on earth is STOP when it hits correct?
• Damn, I guess I would have failed english though, Oh Wait I did....
• This spanking. Tell me more.
• I like that Elim. The final velocity of anything is 0 m/s, really. If it's not finished moving, it's not the final velocity.
• If #12 were correct, evolution would not occur. 92%
• But after we have died and are buried, the sun explodes, vapourising the planets, though is later subsumed into the collapsing universe, which then plays the big bang backwards, and then explodes in an anything-but-instant replay of the one that originally created us... In other words, there is no final velocity, since energy, of which matter is a function (E=mc^2), can never be created or eliminated. I call the question bogus, and the quiz-maker a fraud.
• Actually, I didn't a lot of this stuff in Grade 8 Science, but later or elsewhere or not at all.