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[yuan-yue-95132]

Dear CJAP Admin and experts,
I have a critical question to clarify. What's the definition of "observation"? Say you get a powder. Without any reaction, is the observation of color, odor, shape, etc of one observation of the powder itself? Or each of the color, oder, shape is separate hence must be written on a separate sentence?

Everything is moving to online. Kids can type fast on computer. If students need to 60+ sentences during the short CJAP lab, it's almost a hand-writing competition, instead of a science experiment. I'm hoping a way to reduce the hand-writing at least. Can somebody please help to clarify, what we can "combine" and write in one sentence. It'll be better if SO decides to move writing observation sheets online. Appreciate your clarification!

[jaspattack]

Dear CJAP Admin and experts,
I have a critical question to clarify. What's the definition of "observation"? Say you get a powder. Without any reaction, is the observation of color, odor, shape, etc of one observation of the powder itself? Or each of the color, oder, shape is separate hence must be written on a separate sentence?

Everything is moving to online. Kids can type fast on computer. If students need to 60+ sentences during the short CJAP lab, it's almost a hand-writing competition, instead of a science experiment. I'm hoping a way to reduce the hand-writing at least. Can somebody please help to clarify, what we can "combine" and write in one sentence. It'll be better if SO decides to move writing observation sheets online. Appreciate your clarification!

I would say each observation describes a different property of the powder. Color, odor, and shape are all different properties that you're observing and making note of; they aren't related. Those should all be written as different sentences.

CJAP really shouldn't require you to write 60+ sentences. Tests are very short--typically 15-20 questions. There are only so many possibilities for what can be asked and while some test authors like to pull out some obscure things to ask in general I feel like you should be able to address plenty of possibilities without needing to write that many observations. However, I've only run CJAP once (and I'd like to keep it that way) so it's very possible I'm just underestimating what people are doing.

Thankfully, CJAP won't be an event next season so we won't need to worry about that for much longer.

[AnjayKannan]

Hi!

During competitions is it a possibility that they will provide Benedicts Solution? Thank you!

[jaspattack]

Hi!

During competitions is it a possibility that they will provide Benedicts Solution? Thank you!

Sure. The rules state that the event supervisors can provide "test chemicals" for teams to use, which could reasonably include Benedict's solution.

[Kiko]

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