Do you deserve your HS diploma?

[jeff]

Here's a little test for that's not bad. Unfortunately it gives you the percentage you got right, but does not seem to let you know exactly which ones you got wrong.

http://www.gotoquiz.com/do_you_deser...school_diploma

(BTW, I got 97%)

[mrbiggs]

97% as well.

I've never heard of a dangling modifier.

[noodle]

97% as well though i'm not sure what i got wrong.
i suspect there's an incorrect question

[mrbiggs]

Yeah.

"Twelth Night"? Come on...

[noodle]

Yeah.

"Twelth Night"? Come on...

i got that one right. and the dangling modifier.

[Rabid Monk]

74%
I never even saw most of that in High School.
(I went to a vocational school. Got a dual machining/academic diploma. The academic part is pretty worthless.)
About half of that test was stuff I never saw. Magna Cart, Columbus, Russia in WW2. All stuff I picked up on my own.
ANd I have never read Shakespeare.
What can I say? Canadian Public Vocational High Schools have lax standards.

[keith]

i got that one right. and the dangling modifier.

ah but did you get the immaculate conception right?

(assumes this was a diploma from a Catholic High School)

[Elkhansaa]

74% interesting since im still a sophomore..most of that i was actually taught in junior high school that i happened to recall

[noodle]

ah but did you get the immaculate conception right?

(assumes this was a diploma from a Catholic High School)

yes..

[keith]

yes..

So it must have been another one you got wrong.

[Rabid Monk]

It seems mostly random.
I did it again, answered the same answeres, did it quicker, and got 69%.

[GuitarKid]

69%, I'm in 8th grade though.

[Westley]

68-84% Pretty good, you know that there are libraries and newspapers, and you remember what you've read. You were a child that wasn't left behind!
80%

[jeff]

I got the trig question wrong, because I couldn't remember the trig answer from the top of my head, and didn't care enough to think hard.

Google 'dangling modifier' for explanations of this way to write without being clear. Some of the good explanations are
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling_modifier
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handou...g_dangmod.html

[Rabid Monk]

I got the trig question wrong, because I couldn't remember the trig answer from the top of my head, and didn't care enough to think hard.

It isn't a trig question.
Think rectangles. It's half the area of one. (Right angle triangle)
Highlight to reveal. It's white so as not to spoil things.

I still don't know which Shakespearean play is not a tragedy, though.

[erooMynohtnA]

I got the trig question wrong, because I couldn't remember the trig answer from the top of my head, and didn't care enough to think hard.

Google 'dangling modifier' for explanations of this way to write without being clear. Some of the good explanations are
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling_modifier
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handou...g_dangmod.html

I got a 97% because I moved one down instead of one up on 1606 and said it was the 15th century instead of 17th.

The triangle one isn't trigonmetry. It's just the area of a triangle, which is one half the base times height. Even if you don't know that, you can just work through it, because a right triangle is just half a rectangle.

I wonder how many people got the question wrong about Iran being Arabic.

[erooMynohtnA]

It seems mostly random.
I did it again, answered the same answeres, did it quicker, and got 69%.

I think you may have answered something different in your haste.

[Rabid Monk]

Maybe.
I got 100% on the grammar quiz, though.

[jeff]

It isn't a trig question.
Think rectangles. It's half the area of one. (Right angle triangle)
Highlight to reveal. It's white so as not to spoil things.

I still don't know which Shakespearean play is not a tragedy, though.

duh, that's what I get for sloppy reading!

Twelth (sic) Night - they spell it wrong. See http://absoluteshakespeare.com/guide...lfth_night.htm for nice cheat sheet. Gosh, aint the Internet neat!

[TrainingDummy]

91%, but I wasn't taught most of that in high school. It needs to be longer.