<p>Well this was a disappointment. It wasn't about the actual test, save the lab (which means very little)....I'm feeling a score in the mid 50s for the multiple choice, and I knew about 75% of the FRQ. </p>
<p>Too bad I didn't finish transferring answers from scrap paper to the answer sheet in time. Take about 40 points off my total as well as give my chances for camp a big fat 0. Eh, the important thing is that if I do somehow get even honors (top 100) despite all that, it will show that I'm at the camp level and I wont feel as bad.</p>
<p>Yeah, honors I think. Top 50 get high honors, and top 20 get camp.</p>
<p>I'm thinking that the "100th man" got about 35 - 40 on the MC and a 55 or so on the FRQ. If that is the case then that's a 113 - 122, and my self estimate is 55 on the MC and a 35 - 40 on the FRQ....that's a 127 - 132 range right there.</p>
<p>All I gotta say if I make honors is...wow...</p>
<p>Well my ego has already grown right now to the point that I'm calling myself a "ghost camper" because if I could turn back time, I would have a 70 - 80 on the FRQ (up to a 170 out of 200 right there).</p>
<p>I actually thought that I did pretty well on the MC. Free response... well, I answered the questions as well as I could. We haven't done ANY organic chem, and limited electrochem... I also couldn't answer about 3 rxns. I'm predicting about a 70% if I got all of the questions I answered correct.
The lab didn't go too well. My section got two unique labs that our administrator wrote. I interpreted the second one completely wrong, I think.</p>
<p>Oh, well. I wasn't expecting to do well, anyway!</p>
<p>I took the test last year and the lab totally owned me (because a, I didn't know the descriptive chemistry stuff except for some basic solubility rules, and b, I was randomly squeezing a tube I thought was empty and ended up spilling NaOH on my hand...). The FR questions weren't that hard, just a step up from AP, but of course they didn't give us enough time to answer all of them. MC was comparable to the MC from the local section (meaning I'd probably gotten like 40 right as opposed to 48).</p>
<p>It was a fun test, but of course I didn't get any sort of awards. :)</p>
<p>well I dont know if you knew those two questions about unit cells or the mild oxidation of pentanol, but these are 3 questions I am very sure hundreds did not correctly answer. The four I think I got wrong are the one about the isomers of C4H8 ( said 5 because I drew a degenerate and thought it was unique...), the wavelength one (I completely guessed on this because I kept getting extremely small wavelengths on the oder of -30 or so), the "vibration of atoms" one (said MRI but I think it was choice A, whatever that was), and that weird vapor pressure/Hv problem that I completely guessed on. I might have gotten a few others wrong, but overall I think I got a 54 - 55 on the multiple choice. </p>
<p>However, what I did on the FRQ was just pathetic. The sad part is that I knew just about everything on the second half of the problems... so I will probably end up with a score of 120 (FR score in the 30s...) or so instead of a 170 like I should have had.</p>
<p>Oh well, here's to being a ghost camper and realizing that I would not have made internationals anyway because I have no time to study ANOTHER book during the month of may.</p>
<p>fizix: lab has very little effect on your selection. Almost every camp qualifier does horrible on the labs. As long as one shows good experimental set up procedure, they should be fine.</p>
<p>I took the USNCO yesterday, and im not too sure how i did...</p>
<p>I thought the multiple choice section was easy, like I may have gotten most things correct (im guessing around 55-60...probably not perfect though)</p>
<p>I screwed up on the first lab problem, like it was totally wrong. I got the second lab problem right though.</p>
<p>The free response killed me. I think I got like 1,4,6,8 correct but i think i got all of 3 wrong and parts of the other questions wrong. The organic reaction on this test was annoying...hoping for an 88</p>
<p>if i dont make the camp, its due either to the free response or the lab practical...</p>
<p>I said MRI, too. I also completely guessed on that vapor pressure one (the one with the boiling pt- I knew the other one). On the wavelength one, did you remember to convert from kJ/mol to kJ/e-?</p>
<p>On the FRQ, I was the complete opposite; I thought that the first half was very easy, and that the second half was hard! Well, except for the 'account for these differences' question, which was awesome. Almost every single one had to do with electronegativity. It was great =) Buut... I'm not going to lie, I completely skipped #8 (the isomer one). We haven't learned any organic chem at all. I probably should have drawn the isomers that I -could- come up with instead of just leaving it blank... but I couldn't see the clock from where I was sitting and didn't have time to scribble in the three isomers that I had come up with (I sketched them all on my piece of scrap paper...) So, that was a disaster =)</p>
<p>What were your labs? Mine were different, so I'm curious to see whether I was better or worse off than the rest of the country =D</p>
<p>What did you guys get as the acid's molecular formula (#1) ?</p>
<p>jdlkem...from what you said it sounds like you're gonna get a score in the 60s, not an 88. For an 88 you would have had to miss only half of at most 2 problems.</p>
<p>Regardless, you sound like a possibility for camp and at least high honors. We have similar multiple choice scores and your free response score is probably only 10 - 15 pts lower than mine would be. The lab doesn't mean much at all, as Greg Brockman has told several people, so don't stress over it.</p>
<p>Our labs were a) solubility ion crap and b) thickness of LDPE using buoyancy</p>
<p>The empirical was CHO2, so the molecular I put C20H20O40</p>
<p>wait...i found that the empirical formula = molecular formula...</p>
<p>there was only one equivalence point, so the acid had to be monoprotic
i got the molar mass to equal almost the same as the molar mass of the empirical formula...</p>
<p>hmm...</p>
<p>and yeah...i totally bSed the solubility lab problem -_-
it was just horrible...</p>
<p>MRI?? you mean NMR? NMR has to do with aligning the protons or something like that. i think the answer was ir spectro</p>
<p>maybe i did overestimate the "hope" score on fr but in retrospect i dont think i did Horribly just not great...im guessing more like 75-80</p>
<p>yeah i didnt do more than 2 parts of the first 2 questions because i spent most of my time on the other 6...so I woulda had about 75 or so points myself.</p>
<p>You'll make camp definitely. I hope to see you there next year.</p>
<p>Oh... wait, I guess I wasn't at your section. That's really strange. My proctor told us that he wrote the labs especially for our section, and we would be the only ones who received those ones. But you had the same ones... so I guess my proctor was a bit confused =)</p>
<p>Oh, well. I don't think that I was ready to actually (gasp!) see someone from CC in real life, anyway. Ha, ha.</p>
<p>LOL!!!!!!! MIT admissions officers would laugh their asses off before throwing my app in the "reject" pile....oh wait, their dean just resigned for "resume fraud" so they can't talk LOL!</p>