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Missed the drought question :wallbash:

 

Seemed like half the questions were more socialogical than geographical. Still....no reason to fail the test.

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  On 7/21/2011 at 4:05 PM, DrFishfinder said:

Surprisingly, I aced it too. I guess the process of elimination is a lost skill.

 

Same here.

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  On 7/21/2011 at 7:22 PM, erynthered said:

If anyone from Buffalo got that cold front question wrong you should be shot!!! :D

 

I am from the Dallas Fort Worth area and got it RIGHT!!!

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  On 7/21/2011 at 3:34 PM, erynthered said:

I took the 12th grade test and got them all right. How about you?

 

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/only-25-percent-american-students-passed-geography-test-160214355.html

 

25% ?? We really do have some dumb kids in this Country. :rolleyes:

I didn't have time to take the test but was always good a geography. I have to admit I got confused by the rhombus but I always aced the rest of it.

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  On 7/21/2011 at 3:34 PM, erynthered said:

I took the 12th grade test and got them all right. How about you?

 

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/only-25-percent-american-students-passed-geography-test-160214355.html

 

25% ?? We really do have some dumb kids in this Country. :rolleyes:

 

I took the test and aced it, and I ain't no rocket scientist, so we must be in real trouble. Maybe they kant reed (ore spel)???

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Missed the continent topography question. But really, is that (or the desertification in East Africa question) important to Americans?

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4th Grade Question #3 actually has 2 correct answers. There's the answer they want the student to give and there's also the other correct answer :wallbash:

 

 

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  On 7/26/2011 at 12:24 PM, /dev/null said:

4th Grade Question #3 actually has 2 correct answers. There's the answer they want the student to give and there's also the other correct answer :wallbash:

The percentage of imported steel is 22% give or take. It feels like we import more because the domestic steel isn't made where it used to be anymore and that the steel industry as a whole worldwide has shed something like 1,500,000 jobs over the last 30 years.

 

Data is at the bottom of page 14.

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  On 7/24/2011 at 12:59 AM, Doc said:

Missed the continent topography question. But really, is that (or the desertification in East Africa question) important to Americans?

 

 

I would argue sure they are both important if for no other reason than helping top set context with world events. The topography of South America had a part in recent events like the mining rescue and severe earthquakes in Chile. Desertification has impact on poverty and escalation of violence on the African continent. The point is that kids don't need to know every fact out there but they should have a sense of how things relate.

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Future High School Geography Test Question...

 

 

What environmental factor is most responsible for the painful ignorance of American students?

 

A. Vast mountain ranges prevent adequate flow of oxygen to suburban communities

B. Cool, attractive male students unable to concentrate due to being constantly seduced by female teachers made exessively horny by overload of microwave signals from cellphone towers

C. Gravity literally causes the knowledge to fall down into Mexico

D. Our country is just too big and has too many states. There’s no way anybody could remember all that stuff

 

Correct answer: B

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  On 7/22/2011 at 1:27 AM, ieatcrayonz said:

I didn't have time to take the test but was always good a geography. I have to admit I got confused by the rhombus but I always aced the rest of it.

You are confusing your Gs. This is a geographical thread.

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  On 7/24/2011 at 12:59 AM, Doc said:

Missed the continent topography question. But really, is that (or the desertification in East Africa question) important to Americans?

 

Only if you're taking a geography class...

 

 

 

(...or - seriously - live on the East Coast. East African desertification affects Atlantic hurricanes.)

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