National Brain Bee 2011

mominaz
Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:54:17 +0000

My son did this about a week ago. Unfortunately his school found out about it with a week and a half to train. I think if they send a team next year they will do really well. Anyway they started out with four rooms with 20 kids each. They mixed up the kids from diff schools in these rooms. They were asked questions and given 30 seconds to answer. After three incorrect questions they were eliminated. Then the last standing 5 from each room went on to the final round to determine the winner. So basically they work their way to the best students then finish the contest. The questions are all straight out of the primer so it is a very do-able competition. They have a set list of questions from the Brain Bee and each room had the same questions. There were a surprising amount on the spinal column so be ready for that, lots of basic ones like how much the brain weighs. I would say just memorize as much as you can from the primer. We also found some flash cards and a study guide online, but couldn’t tell you where anymore. We just searched Brain Bee and found some info. Oh - and know the anatomy of the brain as completely as you can and any acronyms in the text. There were a few acronyms that people didn’t know what they stood for. Good luck!!