Team 639 Written Test

[Yan Wang]

Our team administered a written test for our driver/controller/human player candidates. It's hard but you can have all the time you want (just stop when you have just no clue at all). I trust upon the honor system you won't look up the answers.

Email answers to me at monsieurcoffee@yahoo.com in .doc format or pdf
Include your chiefdelphi sn.

I'll post up your scores afterwards so don't send it if you don't want people to see it... the average team score here though was around the top 70s.

The test has been edited to include just the test (no intro), and 3 questions related to our team has been taken out.

[Yan Wang]

If you haven't taken the test, I'd trust you won't read any following posts below...

If you have taken it and sent it to me, post any comments or any questions.

And btw, the test was written by 'soezgg'.

[kristen]

.. you.. EDITED it?? The first and last pages were my favorites!! LOL.

Heeey.. didn't I get like a 67% or something on the test.. making me just BARELY pass it??

DD

[srjjs]

What are the japanese characters at the top of the page for?

[Yan Wang]

I guess page numbers... soezgg is a fan of Jap stuff.

Yeah, that's approx your score Kristen.

I got a 91.6 cause I left one blank (dumb stupid mistake) and also because I somehow did 14-4 and got 8... yeah, so double jeopardy played me and cost me 5 points from that subtraction error. Nonetheless, the 2 drivers/2 controllers on our team also got the top 4 scores... guess the test counted for something.

[Rob Colatutto]

i took the test (to avoide doing my research paper) what did i get? i sent you the results in a pm, i missed your little note about the email

[Jnadke]

Man, that was all too easy... If I don't get a 100 then there's something wrong with you guys.


In fact, question 5 has some errors in it. Some of the options are wrong.

[Rob Colatutto]

a lot of it was worded really weirdly. to many negatives in some

[Yan Wang]

Natuku:

You lost 10.0 points out of a total of 55 points.

That translates to a 81.8% for Nantuku

Multiple choice was 1 or 0. Short answer was 1 or 0 with partial credit of .5 given. 'Circle all that apply' questions were 1 for each right answer selected or 0 for each right answer not selected or each wrong answer selected.

[Yan Wang]

Originally posted by Jnadke
Man, that was all too easy... If I don't get a 100 then there's something wrong with you guys.


In fact, question 5 has some errors in it. Some of the options are wrong.

I haven't gotten your test yet by PM or email... so I have no clue whether you got 100 or not.

I just noticed there's been 61 dls of the test so far... please be patient as I find the time to grade the ones that get submitted.

[Jnadke]

I hope all those questions aren't based upon answers out of the manual...


Virtually 90% of that test has changed at some point or another through FRC Forum rulings or Team Updates.


That test is tedious... there's just too much to explain. Eventually you just give up...

[yangotang]

I thought that test was hilarious.

--yang

[Ben Mitchell]

I sent my test in.

Hopefully, I get above a 50% - otherwise, I'd better start actually reading the team updates.

[Josh Hambright]

crap man i am happy our team didn't give me a test like that...
during matches i'm not thinking that much about score i just do my driving... thats the coaches job to keep me updated on that... if i had to think about score i wouldn't drive as well...
well i do think about score but its not my main concern.

[ColleenShaver]

Actually- I didn't look at your test but everyone interested in traveling with the team and receiving funding on Team 190 must take and pass both a rules and technical test (this is students and college mentors).

The rules test is located here: http://users.wpi.edu/~colleen/FIRST/rulestest.html
the password is controller

On the rules test, you must get 100% in order to be considered passing. You can, however, take the test as many times as necessary to pass. We feel this encourages knowledge of all the rules we deem important, not just say 70% of them. Plus, they must retake the entire test every time, so it minimizes the chance that they didn't just guess the correct answer. Oh yeah, they are not told what questions they got wrong and they must take it in the presence of of certain team members (to ensure they are not looking at the rules while taking it)

The technical test is oral and is more of a pass/fail thing. There are general questions (What is the difference between a fuse and a circuit breaker and point them out on the robot) and others are specific to that year's robot (What is INS, how does it work, and why is it beneficial)

If you take the rules test, it will automatically send the answers to me, and I can let you know how well you did.