Ready for College!

Posted on July 29, 2006 by | 7 Comments
You Passed 8th Grade Science

Congratulations, you got 8/8 correct!

Watch out! One question has a correct answer and a MORE correct answer, and in another question they meant “neutron”, not “neuron”.
(Hat-tip: John Lynch)

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7 responses to “Ready for College!”

  1. Dennis's avatar Dennis | July 29, 2006 at 7:37 pm |

    The hereditary information of an individual isn’t located in the nuclues, which was my reason for choosing the more specific answer.

  2. Phil Plait's avatar Phil Plait | July 29, 2006 at 7:56 pm |

    Yup. I posted about this myself, including the neuron gaffe and the question with more than one acceptable answer. 🙂

  3. coturnix's avatar coturnix | July 29, 2006 at 9:24 pm |

    Yup, I was thinking about the tides primarily, although the nucleus vs. chromosome, and to some extent the ski question are also ambiguous.

  4. natural cynic's avatar natural cynic | July 29, 2006 at 10:33 pm |

    I hoped you also gave the right answer for the neron question: ~-74mV

  5. coturnix's avatar coturnix | July 29, 2006 at 10:55 pm |

    They meant “neutron” for sure.
    And there and neurons and there are neurons – the resting membrane potential varies and in most neurons is somewhere around -60 to -80mV. The textbook number that everyone quotes is from the original work on the squid giant neuron. Why would one expect anything in biology to be so clear-cut as to demand that every neuron in every body in every species has the same potential?

  6. Hsien Lei's avatar Hsien Lei | July 30, 2006 at 8:11 am |

    You people all think too much. I got 8/8 because my understanding of science is at the 8th grade level. Easy peasy. 😀

  7. Jess's avatar Jess | July 30, 2006 at 3:09 pm |

    “Nuclues”? Could they pass eighth grade spelling?