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Astronomy at regionals this year was very bad.

It was one of the tests on the wiki from 2013 just with updated DSOs. My partner and I actually took the test before regionals, and we had the answer key to the test because it was online and we breezed through it. I'm actually amazed that no one besides us caught that it was a stolen test.

I mean, it's literally the SAME thing that happened last year at MN state Astronomy, so

Materials Science was disappointing, again. Only 40 multiple choice questions which most teams completed in about 20 minutes. No good tiebreakers, either, and I could easily have seen time as the tiebreaker for the top teams. There wasn't even a lab, as specified by the rules. Also, it used some rules from last year and some obscure info that should not have been tested. (And, to top it all off, I believe the team that ran the test won...)

The Akron U Regional is not know for being the best, but Hovercraft was particularly bad. The test was only 15 questions and the Procters talked about politics the whole time. Extremely loud. The device portion was run in a very small hallway that echoed quote a bit. The result was a bunch of uninvolved people struggling to get through, and everyone's ears getting blasted off by the noise. We got 4th though

At the regionals for ecology, one of the questions was "true or false: 57,000 trees are needed to print the new york times every sunday." Proctors drunk thinking this is Fermi questions..

gavinnupp wrote:At the regionals for ecology, one of the questions was "true or false: 57,000 trees are needed to print the new york times every sunday." Proctors drunk thinking this is Fermi questions..

i mean it relates to ecology

Fermi Questions test with only 10 questions. ES said he was aiming for quality and not quantity. Hate to tell him, but the best and worst Fermi questions are both worth the same number of points.

John Richardsim wrote:Fermi Questions test with only 10 questions. ES said he was aiming for quality and not quantity. Hate to tell him, but the best and worst Fermi questions are both worth the same number of points.

Wow... even NJ fermi wasn't so bad. (17 questions)

John Richardsim wrote:Fermi Questions test with only 10 questions. ES said he was aiming for quality and not quantity. Hate to tell him, but the best and worst Fermi questions are both worth the same number of points.

That just sounds horrible... Hovercraft was bad, but at least it met the bare minimums for the test requirements.

pb5754[] wrote:

John Richardsim wrote:Fermi Questions test with only 10 questions. ES said he was aiming for quality and not quantity. Hate to tell him, but the best and worst Fermi questions are both worth the same number of points.

Wow... even NJ fermi wasn't so bad. (17 questions)

It was bad considering they gave you the numbers to plug into dimensional analysis.

At the Harper College Regional,