Re: Yale Invite
Posted: January 28th, 2018, 6:46 am
Remote Sensing: Ditto on what whythelongface said, it was a good quality test, they focused properly on this year's relevant topics and the science of remote sensing rather than just being a string of vocab questions. It would have been a bad test to take as your first remsen test, though, like if you were put in the event just to try it out and struggled through that I don't imagine you'd want to do it again, which is sad because it's a lovely event, but for separating top teams it was very good.
Dynamic Planet: Also zero multiple choice questions! It was a super long test but they tried to take common things and turn them on their head - I had a lot of fun with the drawing on question 17, although I may have ignored the instruction to read through all the events before starting and had to just scribble over my first try and do another smaller version in the corner. And it had lots of explanation portions, rather than just statements of names or whatever.
Game On: I'd never done this event before, but it seemed fine, the ES had a momentary memory lapse where she didn't tell us what the topic was but then she realised.
Also, whythelongface, I'm sorry the lemonade was bad, and I sat on the floor with your lunch across from the front door of your fermi room waiting for you to come out why did you have to go out the back door.
EDIT: Also, my mum was one of the RemSen graders (a Yale student graded all 4 West Windsor tests though), and Acton-Boxborough B was the first one she graded so she was like wow these kids know their stuff! But then later she had sometimes 3 tests in a row saying that carbon dioxide was important in the atmosphere because it destroys the ozone layer, and... carbon dioxide does not destroy the ozone layer. So that made her really sad. But congrats to Acton for doing really well overall and also impressing my climate scientist mum!
Dynamic Planet: Also zero multiple choice questions! It was a super long test but they tried to take common things and turn them on their head - I had a lot of fun with the drawing on question 17, although I may have ignored the instruction to read through all the events before starting and had to just scribble over my first try and do another smaller version in the corner. And it had lots of explanation portions, rather than just statements of names or whatever.
Game On: I'd never done this event before, but it seemed fine, the ES had a momentary memory lapse where she didn't tell us what the topic was but then she realised.
Also, whythelongface, I'm sorry the lemonade was bad, and I sat on the floor with your lunch across from the front door of your fermi room waiting for you to come out why did you have to go out the back door.
EDIT: Also, my mum was one of the RemSen graders (a Yale student graded all 4 West Windsor tests though), and Acton-Boxborough B was the first one she graded so she was like wow these kids know their stuff! But then later she had sometimes 3 tests in a row saying that carbon dioxide was important in the atmosphere because it destroys the ozone layer, and... carbon dioxide does not destroy the ozone layer. So that made her really sad. But congrats to Acton for doing really well overall and also impressing my climate scientist mum!
the computers weren't laggy or anything, so i considered it to be a lot better than what went down last week
Congrats to your team!