USABO 2016

lol I don’t think people will be able to wait that long… I know I would forget the questions within 1 or 2 days so I’ll probs end up frantically searching up the topics online to see what was the correct answer xD

March 8th?! Sigh…
The wait is already killing me.
Anyone here take 2014 or 2015 and what did they think?

all these comments are scaring me… welp, time to pull an all nighter i guess o.o

Don’t worry too much whether or not you are a semifinalist right now. Results will come out 3/8 and that is what we know right now

@yjkimnada I took both and I found this one to be about as hard as 2015 and harder than 2014.

Fascinating. as an AMC taker as well, the qualifying score for those always goes up incrementally year b year since people prepare better and get smarter. These just seem all over the place bc test difficulty is a crapshoot :confused:

Guys… oh my god, that test was death… I literally blanked and filled in random bubbles for like 20 of them NO JOKE

yeah this was way harder than any practice test i took

Yeah the consensus seems to be that this was a hard one

anyone reckon that the cutoff will be below 20 first time in usabo history?

gg just got MEMED

oh my gosh i just got rekt by that test lol

I highly doubt that the cutoff will be lower than 20 (although that’d be awesome) because people are getting better on average. I’m so annoyed because I spent too much time pondering over questions I didn’t know that I ran out of time for easier questions later on :frowning:

@imbep49 I understand; I changed a few answers towards the end and I changed them from the right ones to wrong ones … sigh :stuck_out_tongue:

crossing my fingers and waiting for march 8th to come

Are you sure reading Campbell is enough? Most of the cell biology questions this year were beyond what I learned on Campbell cell biology. I plan to supplement with certain chapters on Alberts, Ravens and even some animal phsychiology books. Do you think supplementing with these books is a complete waste of time?

@soporificpeafowl i think it’s best to just wait until the 8th to discuss answers on here :slight_smile:

plus, why would we discuss on the 8th? Everyone will know whether or not they made it lol idk if I should even bother studying cuz if I didnt make it, then its such a waste of my time- what are you guys doing?

Please do not discuss the test. Many schools get extensions, some even a week before the results are released. You don’t want to purposefully put yourself in a disadvantageous situation, do you?

I also want to point out that a doc could be dangerous, since someone who took the test may take the information and give it out to those who have not taken the test (especially those who don’t really care about the test)

don’t ask questions straight from the test to verify who has or has not taken it lol. they should provide verification of their own, or all they will try to do is get free questions from you and not even answer back.