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Re: Pentathlon B
Posted: August 4th, 2009, 5:39 am
by fmtiger124
49ers wrote:well thanks for stating the obvious (no offense). i meant any other topic that anyone has seen at a competition
can you please stop upping your post count with spam?????
A few subjects:
Rock Type
Periodic Table
Earthquake Epicenter
They did stuff with fruit, vegetable or flower at NY states
smallest to largest stuff (planets, animals etc.)
Herbivore, Carnivore, Omnivore
Re: Pentathlon B
Posted: August 4th, 2009, 5:33 pm
by doctor
question 1 how is pentathlon under lab events???
and the questions are really broad
there really isn't a way to study you just have to hope the questions are related to the events you do
how do you guys practice for the athletic part???
i mean it isn't really athletic you have to jump rope or carry an egg on a spoon or something
both times i did it i had to jump rope b/c i was the only girl on my team that did pentathlon and boys can't really jump rope
it's really funny to watch though b/c the things they make you do are really funny to watch like i had to wear a purple easter basket on my head that was too big so it covered my eyes and i had to hold the bucket while trying to test a rock's luster and i had to jump rope with the bucket covering my eyes so i didn't know where the next station was..it was funny to watch but not doing it

Re: Pentathlon B
Posted: August 18th, 2009, 12:04 pm
by fmtiger124
doctor wrote:question 1 how is pentathlon under lab events???
and the questions are really broad
there really isn't a way to study you just have to hope the questions are related to the events you do
how do you guys practice for the athletic part???
i mean it isn't really athletic you have to jump rope or carry an egg on a spoon or something
both times i did it i had to jump rope b/c i was the only girl on my team that did pentathlon and boys can't really jump rope
it's really funny to watch though b/c the things they make you do are really funny to watch like i had to wear a purple easter basket on my head that was too big so it covered my eyes and i had to hold the bucket while trying to test a rock's luster and i had to jump rope with the bucket covering my eyes so i didn't know where the next station was..it was funny to watch but not doing it

well....its under lab events because you dont just sit down and take a test, you're up and moving doing stuff. and yes some of the stuff they come up with can be funny to watch
Re: Pentathlon B
Posted: September 1st, 2009, 4:48 pm
by shorti96
just to let everyone know, with my experience, I found out that for my region and state the questions go from easiest to hardest

you should check to see if that's the same for your region and state
Re: Pentathlon B
Posted: September 8th, 2009, 5:57 pm
by danyalukin
As many of us know, if you can bounce a ball and get it through a hoop and ur good to go... and pay attention in your 7th grade science class...
Re: Pentathlon B
Posted: September 9th, 2009, 2:35 pm
by EastStroudsburg13
And 8th grade, depending on what your school happens to teach in those grades. Maybe even 6th grade for some, it could prove useful.
Re: Pentathlon B
Posted: September 9th, 2009, 3:16 pm
by sewforlife
yeah, I think if I had learned basic physics and/or chemistry I would have done a lot better on my question. We had questions on the water cycle (ecology), and general biology, nothing fancy though.
Re: Pentathlon B
Posted: September 15th, 2009, 3:13 pm
by shorti96
well for me all of my questions dealt with measurment
Re: Pentathlon B
Posted: October 3rd, 2009, 8:35 am
by JustDroobles
My view on this event is that it is kind of an all-star event - you should put your best team members in it. Last year our team put in a bunch of 7th graders who had some athletic ability - they got 40th at state, which bumped the team down from 3rd place to 4th. Because of the wide range of possible topics, I would think a good strategy would be putting in your team members with the most experience and widest range of knowledge.
Re: Pentathlon B
Posted: October 5th, 2009, 11:39 am
by Iustitia
Well, you don't necessarily want the best of your team dedicating time. You'd want them to study harder on other events more...
Our team last year for pentathlon was 4 free people who had no events on Pentathlon's time slot. It was like a ragtag team of free people, and I think that's how it's going to work for our school again this year.
(With that ragtag team, we got 2nd at state.

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