<p>i didnt take many previous years tests and i didnt really see any familiar question ive seen before on the test…just 1 of them. were there any others?</p>
<p>What do u guys predict cutoff will be ?</p>
<p>in my opinion, based on the difficulty, hopefully low 20s</p>
<p>Do you guys know when the scores come out?</p>
<p>^website says march 4</p>
<p>^was it that hard?</p>
<p>One thing i noticed about this year’s test was that it seemed to focus on more general concepts a lot more than 2012 open did. There were also sometimes multiple questions asking about basically the same thing, which considering the breadth of material covered in USABO i felt was kinda unwarranted.</p>
<p>@kanshi @everyone else
The difficulty wasn’t extraordinary, less difficult than 2012 but honestly not bad. Maybe even like 2011, definitely easier than 2010 and 2012 though. I know a number of people from my school expecting 30+ scores from just reading campbell’s once through, and for them 30 is a pessimistic estimate. I’d actually predict cutoff to be around 26 or 27, but considering how a lot of people on this thread are responding it might be closer to 23 or 24</p>
<p>Does Open focuses more on biodiversity than evolution?</p>
<p>Is this year’s format like 2012: each problem just have one correct answer?
Or like other years that one problem has multiple correct answers?</p>
<p>Test was not extremely difficult. I think the cut off will be mid to high 20’s.
Remember, people in the NE are getting extra time for the blizzard. Refrain from discussing questions/topics.</p>
<p>My son (sophomore) took a test yesterday.
It was not pretty hard than he expected.
This is the first time to him and his school.
Not enough information to prepare.</p>
<p>Good luck to everybody!</p>
<p>It might be a dump question:</p>
<p>Which book do you all use to learn about diagnosing diseases which usually appear on usabo.</p>
<p>derp would you say 25 is too low for the cutoff?</p>
<p>I took it Monday. Was not too bad. Good luck to all.</p>
<p>@besthope
I didn’t use any other book besides Campbell’s</p>
<p>That was an interesting test…</p>
<p>When are we allowed to start discussing answers, taking into account the NE extension?</p>
<p>this probably means the score anouncement date and SF date will be postponed</p>
<p>@ ramboacid</p>
<p>End of next week would probably be safe. If you call CEE they will tell you when all of the exams have been administered.</p>
<p>I know we’re still stressing about open, but it’s not too early to start thinking about semis :D</p>
<p>Looking over last year’s thread NSQ said something along the lines of knowing 100% of campbell’s is less preferable than 90% campbell’s and 50% raven’s plants. But just wondering, what does 50% raven’s entail? Do we need to know select parts of everything, or are only half the chapter’s pertinent to USABO, because the first half of raven’s is a lot of review from campbell’s…</p>