Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu: Class Wars (OOC) Not Started/Always Accepting

[Sweetie Belle]

Can I reserve a spot until I get my third star? I'm only 1 post away, and that post is for my RP. (150 is the third star, right?) So once I finish it, I'll have 3 Stars.

(PS: I love this show.)

[Kuri]

@Zain of course you'll be! Your making the tests after all

@max alright your reserved

[Žäīἢ]

I'll start now, and I'll be sure to include the question that the valedictorian of the show always gets wrong. I forget her name...
ALSO, I changed my sprite's appearance in my app.

This is going to be harder than I thought...Expect them to be done by Sunday, at the earliest.

[Sweetie Belle]

You mean Shouko?

[Žäīἢ]

Yes, Shouko, thanks.

[Sweetie Belle]

The question was, for reference, "When did the Taika Reforms take place?"

Also, here's my app:
[spoiler=My app][u][b]Name:[/b] Haruki Mirai[/u]

[b]Age:[/b] 14

[b]Gender:[/b] Male

[b]Appearance:[/b] Has dark skin and black hair. Also sports facial hair. Wears a gold shirt (not made of gold, but gold-colored) and jean shorts.

[b]Bio:[/b] He saved up for two years to go to this school. He has always been interested in math and science, albeit not being very good at it. His parents wanted him to follow their expectations and become something "successful," like a doctor or a lawyer. They looked down on his love of technology. He lives with his sister, Maru. Both of them have a part-time job to help pay for expenses, even though their parents fund them.

[b]Summoning Appearance:[/b] I'm fixing my scanner. I'll have it up once it's fixed.

[b]Personality:[/b] Very responsible and trustworthy, otherwise known as a "goody two-shoes." Will stand up for his friends when necessary.

[spoiler=Enrollment Card][img]http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/7783/176933hv.jpg[/img][spoiler=Lore]2 Tuners + 1 or more non-Tuner monsters
This card is placed in the Main Deck (not the Extra Deck). This card cannot be Synchro Summoned unless it is in your hand. Once per turn, you can remove from play 1 card you control, then increase or decrease the Level of this card by 1. The ATK of this card is equal to its Level x500.[/spoiler][/spoiler][/spoiler]

Also, how about the first person in class F gets an Iron Bracelet?

[Žäīἢ]

I would have to say no to the iron bracelet, but the decision is up to Kuri. Anyway I am going to start on making the test.

[Mysterium Tremendum]

Don't include History and Health on the placements, those can be easily Google. I suggest making up your own riddles and puzzle questions. Even throw in a logic and reasoning question or two. Of course this is hard but its the only way to make it fair.

Here's my problem with Math: Most people will probably be in Middle-High School, some people have learned Geometry and Algebra, some haven't. Curriculums in places differ a whole lot, so some people are bound to not know something or think its too easy.


:Example:
- Simplify:
(x + 35x)(12x + 54x)(2x - 5)
Hint: FOIL

[Žäīἢ]

Wait, no math, history, or health? That's like half of the test gone!

[Mysterium Tremendum]

lol its your choice about what you want to do, but thats my take on it.
- History can be easily Googled since there are thousands of sites available for students to help write their reports (I speak from experience).
- Math is inconsistent, you don't know what people know and what they don't know and thus can't ask them to learn something or make it too hard for them to understand and learn.(See previous example.)
- Health is complicated if you're able to go into the real complex stuff, like the specific parts of the nervous system and naming different areas of the brain and what they deal with. These are complicated and hard to understand, But again Google and Yahoo easily.

Thats why I suggest reasoning, logic, and puzzles questions for classes, they come from your mind and thus can't be Googled, but you'd need to be very creative.

[Žäīἢ]

I will do that instead. Thanks for the input.

[Mysterium Tremendum]

Well, As a warm-up while the Entry tests are being prepared, I decided to pose a quick logic question for everybody and see who can solve it. For testing purposes, I didn't make it as hard as I could've. It shouldn't be too hard to solve.

Michael, Avery, and Evan are in a Pie-eating contest, where each of them will eat a different kind of pie at the same time. Each person had either Rhubarb, Apple, or Pecan Pie at one time. Deduce who had what pie at what time.

[Spoiler= Diagram (Present for Help)]
[IMG]http://i34.tinypic.com/wlc0hz.jpg[/IMG]
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o Michael did not have the Rhubarb Pie first.
o The boy who ate the apple pie second, ate the Rhubarb after Michael.
o Evan ate the Pecan as his second pie.
o The Boy who ate the Rhubarb third, had the Pecan First

[Spoiler= Answer Form]
o Michael
Rhubarb:
Apple:
Pecan:

o Avery
Rhubarb:
Apple:
Pecan:

o Evan
Rhubarb:
Apple:
Pecan:
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[Žäīἢ]

Hmm, it will take me a second to solve it...

EDIT:My answer to your riddle/logic question:

o Michael
Rhubarb:2
Apple:1
Pecan:3

o Avery
Rhubarb:3
Apple:2
Pecan:1

o Evan
Rhubarb:1
Apple:3
Pecan:2

Making this test is going to be harder than I thought....

[Mysterium Tremendum]

[quote name='.:Zain:.' timestamp='1282658904' post='4560483']
Hmm, it will take me a second to solve it...EDIT:My answer to your riddle/logic question:
o Michael
Rhubarb:2
Apple:1
Pecan:3

o Avery
Rhubarb:3
Apple:2
Pecan:1

o Evan
Rhubarb:1
Apple:3
Pecan:2

Making this test is going to be harder than I thought....
[/quote]

lol You're right, +Rep for you. I knew from the start that it was easy but I didn't think it would be solved so soon.

[Žäīἢ]

Well, I am valedictorian of my class (not in the rp.......yet) and I was offered to skip two grades. A question like this is nothing compared to what I like to challenge myself with.

EDIT: I just realized that "Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu" means "Idiots and Tests and Summoned Beings" in English. I mean, why would you name a show that?

SUPER EDIT: The Placement Exam is done. Testing will start Saturday.

[Sweetie Belle]

[quote name='Mysterium Tremendum' timestamp='1282588714' post='4557707']
:Example:
- Simplify:
(x + 35x)(12x + 54x)(2x - 5)
Hint: FOIL
[/quote]
The answer is 4,752x[sup]3[/sup]-11,880x[sup]2[/sup]
Not hard, just big

Oh, wow, I just realized what that meant...

Here, let's break it down:

(x + 35x)
Now, forget the x for now. In front of the solitary x is a 1, however, it is not included. So, you have 1 + 35, which is 36. Put the x back in, and now you have 36x.

Problem so far: 36x(12x + 54x)(2x - 5)

(12x + 54x)
See above. It's basically the same. If there are two numbers with the same coefficient (ex. 3x + 4x, or 12x[sup]2[/sup] + x[sup]2[/sup]), they can be added together. Note that x and x[sup]2[/sup] are not the same coefficient, therefore, they cannot be added together.

Problem so far: 36x(66x)(2x - 5)

36x(66x)
There is no + or - here, and they are separated by parentheses. Therefore, you multiply them. An x times an x becomes x[sup]2[/sup], and 36 x 66 is 2,376.

Problem so far: 2,376x[sup]2[/sup](2x - 5)

2,376x[sup]2[/sup](2x - 5)
Again, multiply. However, there are 2 terms in the parentheses. Multiply each of them by 2,376x[sup]2[/sup]. The x[sup]2[/sup] times another x becomes x[sup]3[/sup], and 2,376 x 2 = 4,752. There is no coefficient for -5, so simply multiply 2,376x[sup]2[/sup] by -5. Your result is 11,880x[sup]2[/sup].

The Solution: 4,752x[sup]3[/sup] - 11,880x[sup]2[/sup].

I can administer a math portion, according to each participant's respective grade (7[sup]th[/sup], 9[sup]th[/sup], etc.). I'm used to writing tests and no, I am not a teacher. I'm going into 11th, so yeah, I'm pretty smart.

Oh, and by the way, FOIL would apply to something more like this:
(2x + 2)(x + 3)
To which the answer is 2x[sup]2[/sup] + 8x + 6

Fear my math genius!

[Mysterium Tremendum]

I didn't think to actually solve that, it was just meant to give my point but you're right nonetheless. The point of the example was just to say that no everyone will know the same thing. I'm glad you solved it anyhow, you did it a different way than I was taught. Here's my way, although it gives the same answer:

(x + 35x)(12x + 54x)(2x - 5)
12x[sup]2[/sup] + 54x[sup]2[/sup] + 420x[sup]2[/sup] +1890x[sup]2[/sup] (2x - 5) After Foil)

After adding those together:
2376x[sup]2[/sup] (2x - 5)
4752x[sup]3[/sup] - 11,880x[sup]2[/sup]

I'm heading to 12th grade, so this was a nice refresher.

I'm just as good at these kinds of questions. FOIL works for this question as well, just differently.

[Žäīἢ]

Testing Time!

[spoiler=Test]PLACEMENT EXAM

1. The word, "mineral," can be spelled using only the letters found in the word, "parliament."


2. This sequence of four words, "triangle, glove, clock, bicycle," corresponds to this sequence of numbers "3, 5, 12, 2."


3. 27 minutes before 7 o'clock is 33 minutes past 5 o'clock.


4. The word, "slackers," is spelled by using the first letters of the words in the following sentence: "Silent large anteaters calmly kiss each roasted snack."


5. If written backwards, the number, "one thousand, one hundred twenty-five," would be written "five thousand, two hundred eleven."


6. Gary has only forty-eight dollars, but he can buy a bicycle that costs one hundred twenty dollars, (disregarding tax) if he borrows fifty-seven dollars from Jane and fifteen dollars from Jill.


7. A round wall clock that has been rotated until it is hanging upside down will have a minute hand that points to your right when it is two forty-five.


8. If the word, "quane," is understood to mean the same as the word, "den," then the following sentence is grammatically correct: "Looking out from my quane, I could see a wolf enter quane."


9. If Richard looks into a mirror and touches his left ear with his right hand, Richard's image seems to touch its right ear with its left hand.


10. If you leave the letters in the same order, but rearrange the spaces in the phrase, "Them eats on," it can be read as, "Theme at son."


11. The words, "auctioned, education, and cautioned," all use the exact same letters.


12. John weighs 85 pounds. Jeff weighs 105 pounds. Jake weighs 115 pounds. Two of them standing together on the same scale could weigh 200 pounds.


13. The seventh vowel appearing in this sentence is the letter "a."


14. Nine chickens, two dogs, and three cats have a total of forty legs.


15. Sixteen hours are to one day as twenty days are to June's length.


16. In the English alphabet, there are exactly four letters between the letter "M" and the letter "G."


17. If the word, "TAN," is written under the word, "SLY," and the word, "TOT," is written under "TAN," then the word, "SAT," is formed diagonally.


18. By removing seven letters from the word, "motherhood," the word, "home," can be formed.



19. If a thumb is a finger, then three gloves and three shoes normally hold thirty-five fingers and toes.


20. The words, "every, how, hand, ever," can form common compound words using, respectively, "one, ever, finger, more."


21. If Monday is the first day of the month, the very next Saturday is the fifth day of the month.


22. Three of the following numbers add up to the number 31: 17, 3, 2, 19, 5.


23. Fred will be four blocks from his starting place if he travels two blocks north, then three blocks east, and then two blocks south.


24. The following words are the opposites of words that begin with the letter R: unreal, street, grasp, unwind, wrong.


25. The following, disregarding punctuation, is spelled the same forwards as it is backwards: "Drat Saddam, a mad dastard!"


26. The letters of the word, "sponged," appear in reverse alphabetical order.


27. The numbers, 3-7-2-4-8-1-5, are read backwards as 5-1-8-4-2-7-3.


28. The odd numbers in this group add up to an even number: 15, 32, 5, 13, 82, 7, 1.


29. Without breaking or bending a toothpick, you can spell the word, "FIN," with exactly seven toothpicks, with no letter sharing a toothpick used by another letter.


30. This sentence has thirty-five letters.


31. A square whose sides each measure ten centimeters can completely fit inside of a regular hexagon whose sides each measure ten centimeters.


32. Six identical triangles can be formed by drawing two straight lines through an octagon's center point.


33. The number 64 is the next logical number in the following sequence of numbers: 2, 6, 14, 30...


34. Frank is taller than John. Ralph is taller than Frank. Therefore, John is the shortest boy.


35. The sum of all the odd numbers from zero to 16 is an even number.


36. If each of seven persons in a group shakes hands with each of the other six persons, then a total of forty-two handshakes occurs.


37. Three congruent regular hexagons can be drawn in such a way that all of them overlap each other and create exactly ten distinct areas or compartments.




38. If a doughnut shaped house has two doors to the outside and three doors to the inner courtyard, then it's possible to end up back at your starting place by walking through all five doors of the house without ever walking through the same door twice.


39. A pie can be cut into more than seven pieces by making four diameter cuts.


40. Two of the following numbers add up to thirteen.

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All answers are true(T) or False(F).
PM me your answer sheet for grading.

[Sweetie Belle]

.:Zain:. and/or Kuri, mind if I add bonus? Or it could just be more test portion. It's seven math problems and they do pose a good challenge:
[spoiler=Bonus Questions][spoiler=Question #1]FOIL:
(x[sup]2[/sup] + 3y)(4x[sup]2[/sup] - y)
[/spoiler][spoiler=Question #2] Factor:
x[sup]2[/sup] + 14x - 30
[/spoiler][spoiler=Question #3] Find the slope of a number that crosses through the points (3,0) and (6,1)
[/spoiler][spoiler=Question #4] Find the value(s) of x:
x[sup]2[/sup] + 14x = 15
[/spoiler][spoiler=Question #5] Find the sum of all even numbers between 1 and 101
[/spoiler][spoiler=Question #6] Find the area of a right triangle whose sides equal 3 cm and 4 cm, and whose hypotenuse equals 5 cm.
[/spoiler][spoiler=Question #7] x can be added to x[sup]2[/sup] to get x[sup]3[/sup]. True or False?
[/spoiler][/spoiler]
Oh, and if you don't want them, I'll take it out.

[Žäīἢ]

We've discussed about adding math, and the verdict was no. So, the answer is no.

[Žäīἢ]

Sorry the test results aren't in.........I 've been having a horrible week........