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sk8lynne wrote:<SNIP>
yeah...the practices at my school are soo fun when we rn't doing anything releated to scio

The first practice for my States team was spent mixing chemicals. Great, er, slightly explosive fun!

Anyway I thought I mentioned this, but I can't find my post, so I'll write it here. The studying for Crave at invites consisted of looking at a middle school level Physics book learning the word "rarefaction." My partner didn't do that. I literally walked around the school 5 minutes before my event, found someone who's noon was open, and informed him he was doing Crave ( ). I tried to give a semi-decent guess but for one we just wrote "good question". The sup put a smiley face next to that

Which of the following should you do in a flash flood?
a. play in the streets
b. ride your bike across the river to make it over while its shallow
c. not this one
d. get to high secure ground

Interesting discussion I had with my meteorology partner:

50. What is one way to stay safe from lightning during a thunderstorm?

"Obviously, just get indoors"
"No! Put the car thing, like there's rubber or some-"
"No, we're putting 'get indoors'."

This isn't exactly Science Olympiad, but still...

On most of the tests that my science teacher gives us, one or two of the multiple choice questions will be like this:

A. (...)
B. (...)
C. (...)
D. I do not know the answer. Mark this question wrong and give me a C.

apparently one team for Rocks and Minerals put down Petrified Food instead of Petrified Wood...

Fill in this flowchart about the essential parts of the brain at state in my 8th grade year
Neuron-> Neuron -> Neuron -> Neuron ->Neuron
We got 3rd.

I graded the Fossil event at the division B regionals a few weeks ago, and one of the stations had the 2 sponges, Astraeospongia and the other one whose name escapes me (heliophylum?). Anyway, a lot of people just put "sponge" for both, though they asked for genus, but my favorite answer was "Dinosaur ". I still had to mark them wrong, but I laughed.

And when I was in 9th grade, my friends got put on Disease Detective a week before regionals, and they had no idea what was going on. For one of the questions, they had no idea, so they started going "Eeny Meeny Miny Mo", and the proctor, who is a teacher at our school, heard them and bursted out laughing.

amerikestrel wrote:This isn't exactly Science Olympiad, but still...

On most of the tests that my science teacher gives us, one or two of the multiple choice questions will be like this:

A. (...)
B. (...)
C. (...)
D. I do not know the answer. Mark this question wrong and give me a C.

lol my AP US history teacher makes it like this:
What did(...) do in [insert date here]
A. (...)
B. (...)
C. (...)
D. (...)
E. A roundhouse kick by chuck norris
...or any type of variation of that

Once on a Bio-Process test, the answer to the question was 50%, and when I wrote it, apparently the 5 looked like an S so they thought it said SO% and marked it wrong -_-

Road Scholar practice test:

Question: What is the population of town X?

Answer: 34.862 (or some other random number) degrees

uhh...ok...