Comments on: Could You Pass Eighth Grade Science?

By: K!P

K!P — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:21:53 +0000

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

By: dan

dan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:36:08 +0000

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

By: owen

owen — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:21:36 +0000

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

By: bap

bap — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:46:21 +0000

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

By: bap

bap — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:43:50 +0000

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

By: aidee

aidee — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:43:54 +0000

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...

By: Jacki

Jacki — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:58:54 +0000

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.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:31:18 +0000

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

By: Ant

Ant — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:24:22 +0000

61% for me.

By: Radin

Radin — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:57:20 +0000

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.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:40:47 +0000

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%

By: Zach

Zach — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:08:39 +0000

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.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:14:27 +0000

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.

By: Rosi

Rosi — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:04:12 +0000

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)

By: MickeyD

MickeyD — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:17:58 +0000

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.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:14:33 +0000

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.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:11:37 +0000

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

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:23:13 +0000

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

By: Don't Panic!

Don't Panic! — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:10:49 +0000

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

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:09:51 +0000

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

By: MoonCake

MoonCake — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:23:34 +0000

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.

By: Pranesh

Pranesh — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:03:27 +0000

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?

By: jj

jj — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:51:10 +0000

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

By: fz

fz — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:46:48 +0000

96% "A"... *humph*

By: Ewzzy

Ewzzy — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:46:17 +0000

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.

By: tk

tk — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:44:53 +0000

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

By: VonSkippy

VonSkippy — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:20:55 +0000

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

By: joe

joe — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:19:39 +0000

"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.

By: Ted Pikul

Ted Pikul — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:19:25 +0000

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%?

By: dendrite

dendrite — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:47:09 +0000

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.