Could You Pass Eighth Grade Science?

1. dendrite
   January 3rd, 2008 at 1:47 am

   Ha! I passed with an "Average" score and I have a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from a UC. I hope that says more about the test then about the knowledge of the test taker.

2. Ted Pikul
   January 3rd, 2008 at 2:19 am

   Harumph. I got an 80%, am a total dork and have a Ph.D. in Neuropharmacology. Hell, I've never gotten an 80% on anything.

   Anybody get 100%?

3. joe
   January 3rd, 2008 at 2:19 am

   "I passed with an “Average” score and I have a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology"

   Really because I have an Associate's Degree from a community college and I got 96%. Maybe it says a fancy degree doesn't mean you know anything.

4. VonSkippy
   January 3rd, 2008 at 2:20 am

   I missed one - the "fruit" question (guess I shouldn't have skipped so many Botany 101 classes).

5. tk
   January 3rd, 2008 at 2:44 am

   dendrite, you have a Ph.D. and you still get 'then' and 'than' confused?

6. Ewzzy
   January 3rd, 2008 at 2:46 am

   I got a 100% but the gaseous planet one was an educated guess at best. Not too shabby for junior media arts major at three in the morning.

7. fz
   January 3rd, 2008 at 2:46 am

   96% "A"... *humph*

8. jj
   January 3rd, 2008 at 2:51 am

   a-, chemical engineer, missed how mammals transpire and the meteroid one, GRRR

9. Pranesh
   January 3rd, 2008 at 4:03 am

   Got an A . And I'm a law student. But then, I always did love science. Oh, and just to make things tougher, I haven't slept in over 31 hours. I was pretty sure I had gotten the role-of-fruits question wrong until the very end. Don't they also serve the role of attracting birds, etc., so that seeds can be dispersed in their droppings?

10. MoonCake
    January 3rd, 2008 at 7:23 am

    I got a 69%.. then again, that's not much better than my actual grade in 8th grade. and btw- hasn't anyone caught the misspelled title of this post?it's "eighth" grade. and it didn't take a PH.D to find that one.

11. Miss Cellania
    January 3rd, 2008 at 8:09 am

    MoonCake, I didn't catch that! I was posting in a hurry, as usual. I are no typer. Corrected.

12. Don't Panic!
    January 3rd, 2008 at 11:10 am

    B- for me. The quiz listed that as above average. Not bad for being out of 8th grade for 38 years.

13. Skipweasel
    January 3rd, 2008 at 11:23 am

    I'm a house-husband (though I prefer the term "kept man" and got 96%.

14. Rick
    January 3rd, 2008 at 12:11 pm

    the test has errors and ambiguities, as all tests do. Mammals cannot respire anaerobically, respiration is oxidative phosphorylation which can only occur with the oxidizer oxygen in mammals. Igneous rock, which is solidified magma, can be deeper that metamorphous rock in certain cases

15. Anthony
    January 3rd, 2008 at 12:14 pm

    I consistently get about 200-300%, because you can hit an answer multiple times and get credit for it. I am a college student.

    I agree with Dendrite. Some of the questions are very poor. My mother has a PhD in medical microbiology as well as teaching high school chemistry, and I don't think she would do any better.

16. MickeyD
    January 3rd, 2008 at 12:17 pm

    I agree with Rick about the ambiguities, sometimes I was trying to figure not most scientifically correct answer, but rather the one I thought they thought was correct.

    Also, that an adult, especially one who works in science, might not do well should not come as a surprise since specialized knowledge of a field, not general knowledge of many, is rewarded.

17. Rosi
    January 3rd, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    Wow... I got As for my science GCSE (11th grade I think) but I only got a C for this test... either a) I've gotten stupider over time b)I've forgotten most of what I've learnt or c)American science is more difficult than what is taught in England (most likely... I didn't learn most of this stuff until at least 10th grade)

18. Kyle
    January 3rd, 2008 at 1:14 pm

    Bah. It asked what the final velocity was of an object that hit the ocean.

    An object that hit the ocean isn't moving 100 m/s.

19. Zach
    January 3rd, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    88. I missed meteoroids, fruits (disperse seeds and attract insects makes sense to me but I guess the flowers do the attracting), and the mammals question.
    The mammals question is BS I think. Show me the animal that does not need to breathe.

20. Will
    January 3rd, 2008 at 2:40 pm

    I had fun.

    One thing: The quiz, like most simple quizes, tests for knowing facts. In science, facts are not as important as knowing the "science" itself. Understanding why replicating experiments, openness of information, falsafiability, and all that are so important are all part of a good science education.

    I'm afraid that this is more of a trivia quiz than a test of our science education.

    Still fun though (: I got 86%

21. Radin
    January 3rd, 2008 at 4:57 pm

    Anthony, your right. There is a glitch I found out that scores double for a question if you click it and it doesn't go to the next question.

    Got a 100%, but I probably should've gotten an 90% because of the glitch. Pretty good for a ninth grader.

22. Ant
    January 3rd, 2008 at 5:24 pm

    61% for me.

23. Alex
    January 3rd, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    I too have a PhD in biochemistry and got a "C" in this quiz. Maybe it's just us stupid biology geeks....

24. Jacki
    January 3rd, 2008 at 5:58 pm

    84% / "Above Average"

    Grade 8 was four years ago for me. Haha, I have very poor memory... But the scary thing is I'm taking Phy12, Chem12, and Bio12 this year and I'm in IB...

    HMMMmm... lol.

25. aidee
    January 3rd, 2008 at 8:43 pm

    B+

    But as others have noted, questions were slightly ambiguous i.e. sedimentary rocks can be buried deeply before transitioning to metamorphics with heat, pressure and time.

    Damn them metroids...

26. bap
    January 3rd, 2008 at 10:43 pm

    92% -- the question about which rocks are buried deep in the earth's crust is bogus. What the heck does deep mean?

27. bap
    January 3rd, 2008 at 10:46 pm

    20 hits the nail on the head. Don't feel bad Rosi (17). The kids taking this test haven't learned anything.

28. owen
    January 3rd, 2008 at 11:21 pm

    86%. Not bad for an art school drop out
    The rock question seemed like it was written by somebody who knows nothing about rocks.

29. dan
    January 3rd, 2008 at 11:36 pm

    our body can use anaerobic respiration when there is not enough oxygen to provide our muscles after long periods of "aerobic" exercise. It's less efficient and the end product is lactic acid which causes the soreness after a hard exercise

30. K!P
    January 4th, 2008 at 11:21 am

    hum...got a 84...prob. because i mistranslated something biut hey: i passed

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