Doh! Missed one!
Another online test, this time about 8th grade math
| You Passed 8th Grade Math |
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It’s really depressing if I can’t get ten 8th-grade math questions correct in a row. Worse that the error I made was one of nomenclature. (From Pharyngula)
Have you tried the Washington State 10th grade WASL test? This one is really depressing.
Posted by Terry on 02/26/06 at 01:59 PMOops, forgot to give you the url. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/wasl10.asp
Posted by Terry on 02/26/06 at 02:00 PMIt said my grade was 88%, or 7/8 (which is actually in-between 88 and 89 percent, but that’s a distinction without a difference). As usual, my problem was not lack of understanding, but concentration. It would be interesting to take it again, different questions, after a dose of Ephedra. Or even a double-cappucino.
The problem is, and I suspect this is true for a lot of people, concentrating wears me out so I jump at the answer.
Posted by george.w on 02/26/06 at 07:13 PMMy grade came up as 6/8 which is 75%, although I DID earn a B for my Intermediate Algebra class.
Maybe I shouldn’t have sold my graphing calculator to the pawn shop quite so soon.Posted by MrsDoF on 02/26/06 at 09:15 PMGot nine out of ten, but I wonder which one I got wrong ?. Maybe the 2,2,3,4,5 one, I was clueless.
Posted by basil on 02/26/06 at 10:12 PMwell I got 10/10 on the 8th grade and 6/8 on the 10th grade. I think I’m gonna play the tired, unable to concentrate trump card.
Posted by webs05 on 02/26/06 at 11:41 PMSeems all the best people get 9 out of 10! Real pity we are not told what was wrong.
Posted by Doris on 02/27/06 at 03:22 PMDOF, with all due respect sir, and please correct me if I’m wrong, but 7/8 is the decimal .875 and when changed to a percent by moving the decimal point two places too the right is 87.5 percent; less than and not in between 88 and 89 percent. A close fraction to 89 percent is 57/64, which is about .8906 and 88% or 88/100 can be reduced to 22/25.
Posted by basil on 02/27/06 at 07:06 PMThanks, Basil - you’re absolutely right! What I should have said is: “...between 87 and 88 percent, but that doesn’t really make a difference.“
Posted by george.w on 02/27/06 at 07:33 PM100% but of course I was always strong in math, keep that damned english vocabulary test away though.
Posted by james old guy on 02/28/06 at 12:59 PMI got 100% on both tests. I guess all that tuition money wasn’t wasted!
Posted by Lucas on 02/28/06 at 07:38 PMI got 9 of 10. But I was told what I got wrong, was this different before…?
Posted by laender on 06/06/06 at 01:31 PMIt was the same before. But it is easy to miss the part where it says what was right, what wrong.
Posted by george.w on 06/06/06 at 01:40 PM
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