Again, some questions will be identical, others will be modified. The Division II SCT and Invitational Series #66 questions will also overlap. CC SCTs will use Invitational Series #66. When questions are shared (whether or not they are identical), they will appear in the same round of the DI and DII sets. Some questions will be exactly the same, some will be modified versions. The Division I and Division II SCT questions will overlap. I look forward to an ICT of similar quality.
But overall, I thought this was a very good SCT, and I'd like to thank Andrew and the other NAQT editors for their work on this set. I'm still not a fan of the distribution, which I think places too much emphasis on geography, current events, and pop culture at the expense of art, social science, and myth/philosophy. The science questions had real science clues (even the element questions weren't bad) and the math questions in particular I thought were great. Excess verbiage appeared to have been trimmed to a maximum, another positive thing. They were replaced by actual clues with actual content. The "nacuties" were also gone I don't think I spotted a single one the whole tournament. Gone were list tossups and list bonuses, which was also wonderful.
The questions were generally about as clue-dense as you could be in a four or five line tossup. Stuff like "this guy did some irrelevant things for ten points who discovered benzene" was nowhere to be found. Like, an order of magnitude.įirst, I was happy to see no-content clues essentially disappear from the set.
Well, since I was quick to pillory NAQT when SCT sucked last year, let me (try to) be the first to say that I think this year's edition was a vast improvement over last year.
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