Can you pass the 3rd grade? Take this test and tell us.

[skipos]

Poll question: Can you pass the 3rd grade? Take this test and tell us.

I saw this on DailyKos and liked it. Take the test here:
http://www.pibmug.com/files/map_test.swf
and then tell us:
Can you pass the 3rd Grade?

[eyesroll]

1. In terms of state capitals, yes.

In terms of manual dexterity, no. (Dragging and dropping Delaware proved nearly impossible.)

[xmas74]

3. Mine was also the drop and click.

I had all the states right but the drop and click didn't always work.

[NashVegas]

8. Delaware's a Pain in the Arse

Too skinny.

[xmas74]

9. It was.

I just had a hard time fitting it in there.

[NashVegas]

10. There's Also the Matter of Page Placement

All those little tiny states whose names were on the other side of the page ...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. Yes, Delaware really slowed me down

:-)

But I got 48/48. I started playing with "state" puzzles before I entered school.

[hyphenate]

22. I answered before

I read other answers. Yes--Delaware was a particularly nasty bugger.

[qazplm]

2. I got them all

the only states I ever have trouble with are NH and VT since they are almost reverse mirror images of each other.

[annabanana]

4. (Vermont is kind of shaped like a "V". . )

That should help.

[nasher]

6. That was my problem too.

Other than that, sliding the names was the hardest part.

[trotsky]

14. Here's the mnemonic I learned in 5th grade.

New Hampshire looks like it is pointing up, like a person with their finger pointing up, saying "I have NEW idea!" (NEW Hampshire, get it?)

[karlrschneider]

16. Easiest way to remember (for me at least), NH has a seacoast!

;-)

[sandnsea]

31. Well duh

How could I have not put that together all these 48 years. I never know which is which and it's so obvious, Portsmouth, duh. :silly:

[Pale Blue Dot]

5. I suck at geography. AND, believe it or not, I was never tested on it.

Note to my sweetheart, if she's lurking: It only took me 3 tries to get Nebraska! :woohoo::blush:

[dipsydoodle]

7. I only got 18/48

Being English obviously don't help ? Wanna try it with English counties ? :rofl:

[hyphenate]

23. Sure--bring it on!

:rofl:

Maybe they should try us on the provinces of Canada.

[muriel_volestrangler]

32. I manage 48/48 - with seconds to spare

There are tests for African, European and Asian countries I've seen linked to before.

[immoderate]

11. I got it -- the second time around

So I guess I was a "hold-over.":dunce:

--IMM

[Berry Cool]

12. I coudn't drop Michigan correctly first time because it was in two pieces

so it marked me wrong.

Curses. I know where the hell Michigan is! :mad:

[immoderate]

17. Yeah, they gave the upper peninsula back to Canada!

--IMM

[hyphenate]

24. Yeah, I noticed that

I kept wondering why it didn't color it in even though it was in the right place.

[karlrschneider]

15. Duh. I can identify every state from the shape except for Wyoming and

Colorado (the only 2 that are virtually identical)...sheesh

[CanSocDem]

18. No...but it is culturally biased. (eom)

[jab105]

19. I got it, we were drilled this in 4th grade...and my husband and I

drove around the country in 1998, that really helped too:)

[Catherine Vincent]

20. No, I flunked.

But I was offended somewhat when it said the short bus is coming to pick me up. I have a nephew that ride one of those short buses. :(

[hyphenate]

21. Dragging and dropping

was a royal PITA. It took me three tries before I could do with with some precision. Delaware was a particularly nasty state to drop properly.

I knew them all, but hated the interface.

[Nikia]

25. Yes

I had a real fascination with maps for most of grade school. I can identify all the United States States states, Canadian provinces, Australian States, and most of the countries of the world as a result.
Despite all of this, I have a hard time translating road maps into getting somewhere.

[cushla_machree]

26. where the heck is nebraska

And who really cares anyway?

[NJ Democrats]

27. I got them all right

but they messed up the shapes of the states. Like Conn cuts into NY and stuff.

[BlueStorm]

28. It won't even give me any results..n/t

[laundry_queen]

29. The first time it took me a few seconds

to figure out how to work it. lol. So I got 38/48 (ran out of time). The second time obviously I had no problems finishing in the recommended time. I only had problems with some of the smaller east coast states. The rest I'm pretty familiar with. I'd like to see one of those tests with Canadian provinces. :D At least there would be no manual dexterity problems (Well except for maybe PEI :P )

[rainbow4321]

30. Scarist thing...THIS guy would most likely fail....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65GUp_IO6qM


But this same idiot-in-chief can probably fill out a map listing every oil field location in the Middle East.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht1rcEcOCnE

[karlrschneider]

35. Gawd, that's painful and funny to watch...both at the same time.

:eyes:

[Dem2theMax]

33. I'm a gittin' on the short bus. Sigh. nt.

[W_HAMILTON]

34. Yes, BUT

I can get confused with "like" states, ie Alabama/Mississippi and New Hampshire/Vermont. I get confused on which is which. Even though with Katrina, and knowing it affected mainly Louisiana and Mississippi, that helps me to remember that Mississippi is the one closest to Louisiana (an easily recognized state).

Also, I had no clue that Wyoming was a "rectangle" state. That was probably the one I got most wrong. I was getting it confused with Wisconsin, and the Minnesota, for some reason. Oh well, I guess that officially makes Wyoming my least known about state :)

Outside of that though, it was pretty easy.

[UTUSN]

36. Kick n/t

[bigwillq]

37. I passed!

That was too easy! I really thought it was going to be harder before I saw what you had to do.

[jayctravis]

38. I got 48/48 but for some reason it said I failed...

Have a little trouble with those teeny ones in NE, but process of elimination helped a bunch after I did the big states.

[windbreeze]

39. Delaware....they musta moved Delaware...

LOL....48/48...but it said I failed....??? I think we should send the short bus for them...
wb...

[Blue_In_AK]

40. It said I got 44 out of 48, but I wasn't done yet.

I get really confused with those New England states because I've never been up there. I left them for last.

And yet again Alaska and Hawaii get left out. :(

[lonestarnot]

41. I have a screwey mouse. You know those bullshit mice these days.

Mickey fucking mouse freak.

[Dinger]

42. Thanks - This Is A Great Stress Reliever! (nt)

[wildflowergardener]

43. Yes - sort of

It took me about 8 tries but I finally passed. I got all of the states but the ones on the east coast without help, then I decided - well surely in third grade I'd at least get a chance to study - that is look of a map of the united states at least once before taking the test - so I looked at a map once and closed it then I got all the states.

I'm better at the states I've travelled to - in general horrible at geography. (live and went to school in the midwest, and have never been to the east coast)

Meg