I didn’t know what a scantron was until sometime last year. Or maybe it was two years… or one and a half. Well, it was around when I had that SAT prep course. I knew what they were, I just didn’t know they were called “scantrons”; most people just called them “bubble sheets” or something, so at first I thought it was some sort of machine, and was disappointed when I found out it was just a sheet of paper. Anyway, the problem with them is that when you get too many of the same answers in a row, you start to doubt yourself, especially if the filled-in circles make a neat repeating pattern!
Today’s general chemistry test was a 60-question multiple choice thing, which I’m not used to at all. Plus, we used scantrons, which I never did in highschool except for standardized tests. We went over the questions right after we took it, and I did pretty well! Way better than the first gen chem test. As for the linear algebra midterm I also had today, that didn’t go so well.
I think of cats when I think of cations! This imagery was further reinforced when I learned the phrase “cats have paws (pos)” which implies that cations are ions with a pawsitive charge.
Had an orientation for machine shop safety today, which was followed by a ~50 question multiple choice test. Little did I know that we were supposed to have read a safety manual (actually, I did know, but I just read the safety guidelines, which I thought was the manual, until I realized it wasn’t) or that we were allowed to print them out and use them during the test, but a lot of the questions kinda seemed like common sense, though not as easy as the ones in the daily flash. Many questions were about things discussed/shown in the orientation, so paying attention is necessary (which I did!). Some of the questions were kinda specific, and I didn’t know those so I kinda guessed, and got some of them correct. The tests were checked right after we finished taking them, and I passed! Actually I don’t think failing it really does anything; you just have to retake the test or something. And yeah. Safety. I guess I will read that manual even though I don’t think I’ll really be using the machine shop that often.
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