Road Scholar

[starpug]

Yeah we get map drawing, that was what sunk us cause we did the map in like 5 minutes, it was insane.

[binary010101]

Did they want you to draw contour lines, or features like lakes, rivers, and buildings?

[eyeball138]

For me in the past it has been features such as: Lakes, schools, railroads etc.

[starpug]

both we had to do everything

[robotman]

most of the time for me its the lakes roads schools orchards cemetaries

[cooltiger]

Please help me, I am pretty much a beginer to road scholar and it's pretty hard to understand everything. I have found that the best way to learn is take a practice test and learn it as you go along. But if there is anyway sombody could give me everything I need to know about topo maps for the test that would be great.

[crazibanana_51]

It's not very difficult to learn. If you have the booklet, that's all you need. This is my 2nd year doing Road Scholar and I know everything there is(in my opinion).

[eyeball138]

It's not very difficult to learn. If you have the booklet, that's all you need. This is my 2nd year doing Road Scholar and I know everything there is(in my opinion).

I agree with the second sentence, not so much the 1st. I'll ignore the 3rd. The booklet is really really helpful. This booklet I believe is called The Coaches manual to Road Scholar and it can be found in the soinc.org store. The booklet has everything that you will need to know including: azimuths, bearings, stream gradient, slope gradient, determining mileage, profiling etc. It's great for the competition also because it has everything you need in one source.

Obviously, it takes time to go through the book, as I think there are 13 lessons. Afterward though, I think it's a great idea to take practice tests, and lots of them.

[starpug]

Yep It's very hard to learn the material unless you have the book or have a very knowledgeable coach, luckily last year we had both

[crazibanana_51]

I agree with that. This year and last year, I've had a very good coach which made it sooo much easier to learn. Without her, I don't think I would be as good as I am now.