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Re: Fast Facts B
Posted: April 12th, 2017, 8:11 am
by gillio
For organisms like birds, mammals et cetera, do we need to know common names or scientific names?
Re: Fast Facts B
Posted: April 12th, 2017, 8:29 am
by NeilMehta
gillio wrote:For organisms like birds, mammals et cetera, do we need to know common names or scientific names?
They should accept both if they don't specify that they require one or the other
Re: Fast Facts B
Posted: April 12th, 2017, 6:08 pm
by Skink
However, I can't foresee any scenario where you'd actually need scientific names or other taxa. Possibly animal phyla, but that's the extent of it...
Re: Fast Facts B
Posted: April 13th, 2017, 9:03 am
by NeilMehta
Skink wrote:However, I can't foresee any scenario where you'd actually need scientific names or other taxa. Possibly animal phyla, but that's the extent of it...
On the other hand, they can always ask about taxonomic ranks themselves, although that is wayyy less common.
Re: Fast Facts B
Posted: April 13th, 2017, 2:42 pm
by gillio
For a category like fossils, what do test administrators expect?
Re: Fast Facts B
Posted: April 13th, 2017, 7:20 pm
by NeilMehta
gillio wrote:For a category like fossils, what do test administrators expect?
This could help
https://www.soinc.org/sites/default/fil ... -10-15.pdf
Re: Fast Facts B
Posted: April 14th, 2017, 7:15 am
by x323vertigo
Re: Fast Facts B
Posted: April 17th, 2017, 8:00 am
by Scientific Dragon
Here is what I am doing now to prepare over the summer for this event. First, I(and my coach) try to think of as many categories as possible that are most likely to be on the test, organize the information into a google drive folder, and to study I use a program called anki at
https://apps.ankiweb.net/. This program a) is based on science to help one memorize things faster and b) keeps track of what I know. My flashcards I put on it look like "Human Organ A" and things like that. You can find a lot more about anki online but it is extremely useful for this.
Re: Fast Facts B
Posted: May 2nd, 2017, 11:16 am
by Tailsfan101
So at my state tournament, we had simple categories such as insects, mammals, and dinosaurs. Does anybody know if the category difficulty will increase,and if so, by how much?
Re: Fast Facts B
Posted: May 2nd, 2017, 5:21 pm
by Tailsfan101
Tailsfan101 wrote:So at my state tournament, we had simple categories such as insects, mammals, and dinosaurs. Does anybody know if the category difficulty will increase,and if so, by how much?
Also, we had a very general category called "5-Letter Science Terms". What do test administrators expect for this?