Anyone willing to take a stab at the high school math exam, Russian style?

[Lorizael]

Yes.

[rah]

In the old days there were only two sections so the max was 1600, not 2400. (If I remember correctly from the stone ages.)

[loinburger]

It was the same way when I took it. Also when I took the GRE's they had two math sections, fap fap fap (I believe they've now replaced one with a "reading" section)

[Hauldren Collider]

I usually lost the most points on the college board's reading sections, mainly because I had (relative) difficulty guessing what they wanted you to answer on the ambiguous questions.

[Kuciwalker]

American tests have a lot of word problems in which the difficulty is in evaluating the problem and determining what to do to solve it.

This is so much bull****, as a generalization.

[Kuciwalker]

Skimmed the test, nothing interesting. It looks pretty good for a national HS-level exam.

[onodera]

Had a looked through them, answered the first 9 in my head. Couldn't be arsed investing time in the rest. Are Russian students this thick?

Try 17 and 18. It gets harder.

[giblets]

EDIT: 2260/2400 or 1550/1600. Those were easy tests. I honestly should have done better, but I didn't want to retake them.

I had slightly higher scores, therefore I'm smarter then you

[giblets]

Try 17 and 18. It gets harder.

Despite giving hard math questions to high schoolers, Russia is still a pretty crappy country. I don't get it.

[Al B. Sure!]

Also, has the SAT scoring system changed since Alby took the SATs cuz I think his score is just over half of mine.

EDIT: 2260/2400 or 1550/1600. Those were easy tests. I honestly should have done better, but I didn't want to retake them.

Oh yeah, and 800 on the physics SAT II and 770 on Math Level 2 SAT II. Honestly should have had a perfect on the math but I think I forgot to answer a question.

I just checked the percentile business... I was 97th percentile in reading and.... 81st percentile in Math. I'm not strong at math. Nothing I don't already know. I'm still not a ****** at math at 81st percentile.

[giblets]

Just because a lot of other people struggle with easy math questions doesn't mean you don't suck.

[Al B. Sure!]

Just because a lot of other people struggle with easy math questions doesn't mean you don't suck.

Just so you know, there is no doubt in my mind that if I took a refresher course and re-learned that trig and geometry, that I could do those problems on that Russian test easily and accurately. The arithmetic questions that didn't require that base knowledge were a complete joke. If that is indicative of the other questions, then my inability to answer them is entirely due to my lack of knowledge on how to solve sin/cos/tan and geometry and if I had that knowledge, I could answer them easily.

[giblets]

You're so eager to prove yourself. Maybe you should solve 17 or 18.

[Al B. Sure!]

How can I express this in a way that even a ****** like gribbler will understand?

Here's a macroeconomics problem that is pretty basic and straight-forward. The 'problem-solving' is simple and the math is nothing more than addition, division, and multiplication.

Assume that high-powered money is 500, the fraction of deposits held as currency is 0.25, and the fraction of deposits held as reserves is 0.15. Calculate the value of deposits and the money supply.

If you don't know what high-powered money is and that Deposits = High-powered money / (reserve holding ratio + currency) and that the money supply = deposits + deposits*currency then you would look at the problem like an idiot with no clue how to solve it.

Once you understand those relationships, the problem is a joke. D = 500/(.40) = 1250... M = 1250(1.25)= 1562.5

But if you don't have that knowledge of these relationships, you would be clueless.


Similarly, I don't know what the **** to do with sines, logs, n!, etc. I don't remember that ****.

[Kuciwalker]

You're operating under the belief that once you know the definitions of the terms, math is trivial?