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Uloim

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« Reply #15 on: May 16, 2005, 04:35:31 am »
#What is the temperature in which water freezes?
a) 3?F
b) 32?F
c) 14?C
d) 0?C

Unsure, I picked D.  Correct answer was B.  Looked it up, 32?F is the SAME as 0?C....

/me beats the test creator and teacher with the same club
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Talamir

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« Reply #16 on: May 16, 2005, 05:22:18 am »
I would make myself a new life long goal if I were you: Give every test creator in the good ol\' U.S.A. a black eye.
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« Reply #17 on: May 16, 2005, 05:35:34 am »
Well, if you insist! :D

/me runs off, club in hand
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« Reply #18 on: May 16, 2005, 05:45:21 am »
What change should be made to the phrase \"stir it around\" in the sentence below?

\"Put the rubber banded shirt in the dye and stir it around with an old stick.\"

a. stir it round and round
b. stir it about
c. stir it
d. stir it all over

... o_O

you spin me right round baby right round like a record baby right round round round
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« Reply #19 on: May 16, 2005, 06:09:43 am »
Like a record baby?  Round round round round?

Sarrow, none of those answers is correct.  The number 1 is, but the \"whole of 5/5\" actually makes it incorrect.

Hey Uloim! (hope to see you in game soon, but a Mac guy and it\'s likely to be down for a while) that whole 32 F / 0 C thing is really f(n) annoying.

I once got a problem wrong in high school because they asked \"Who wrote Faust?\"  Well... Christopher Marlow wrote \"The Tragedy of Dr. Faust\" but Goethe wrote the opera \"Faustus\", so I answered Marlow.  Of course, the question was ill posed...
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« Reply #20 on: May 16, 2005, 01:33:28 pm »
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Originally posted by Talamir
I would make myself a new life long goal if I were you: Give every test creator in the good ol\' U.S.A. a black eye.
Just everyone who perpetuates our stupid measurement systems.
All science teachers [a supposed to] use metric/centigrade or Kelvin, so it isn\'t that bad.

As for odd standardized test questions: I recall having a question that involved an analogy of the words \"dandy\" and \"foppish.\"  I forgot the other half of it, though.  It was on the SAT before they got rid of analogies. =/

Karyuu: I would\'ve said \"stir it all over\" XD

~Indi
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