Synapse @ Vasant Valley School
By Neel Jadia
'Synapse' was an online quiz organised by Vasant Valley School, New Delhi. Many prestigious schools from across the country participated in it. The quiz was held on the 25th of July, 2020, virtually, on the Zoom platform, wherein, the students of Class X took up a preliminary round a day before, starting 4 p.m. For prelims, one had to qualify 5 levels to participate in the final quiz. For the prelims preparation, all my science teachers gave their valuable time to me, and took many efforts to prepare me for the quiz. I would like to thank all my teachers for this.
For the prelims conducted using Google Forms, we had to answer as many MCQ’s as we could, within 20 minutes. The questions varied in their difficulty, and there was negative marking for each wrong answer, and one correct point for each correct answer. Some questions were as basic as giving the formula for washing soda, while some were from Class XII, like combination of concave and convex lenses and dormancy hormone of plants. The quiz was over at 4:35 p.m.. The results came that evening itself. Unfortunately, I didn't pass the prelims but I was allowed as an audience to the final quiz.
The following morning, Dr. Anirban Mahapatra, Assistant Director and Publisher at the American Chemical Society, addressed us and gave us an insight into the science stream as well as the Covid-19 pandemic. For the quiz, participants from five schools were selected, but only 4 were present. As we waited for the last school to join, I didn’t want to let go of the chance and asked the organiser if I could get the opportunity instead. But of course, that was not to be. At least I tried!
Finally, the quiz began with just four contestants. Though I had lost the opportunity, I attended the quiz with great interest. There were eight rounds, viz. current affairs, movie clips, inventors, experiments, etc, out of which, the round I liked the most was the experiments round, in which they showed a video, in which an experiment was shown, and the contestant had to name the experiment.
The quiz ended at 11:45 a.m. During the results declaration meeting, Ms Rekha Krishnan, the Principal of the host school, asked the 270 attendees if we wanted to share our experience. I did so and specially praised the elocution of the student who had conducted the quiz.
It was a good learning experience for me and I hope you liked reading about it!
'Synapse' was an online quiz organised by Vasant Valley School, New Delhi. Many prestigious schools from across the country participated in it. The quiz was held on the 25th of July, 2020, virtually, on the Zoom platform, wherein, the students of Class X took up a preliminary round a day before, starting 4 p.m. For prelims, one had to qualify 5 levels to participate in the final quiz. For the prelims preparation, all my science teachers gave their valuable time to me, and took many efforts to prepare me for the quiz. I would like to thank all my teachers for this.
For the prelims conducted using Google Forms, we had to answer as many MCQ’s as we could, within 20 minutes. The questions varied in their difficulty, and there was negative marking for each wrong answer, and one correct point for each correct answer. Some questions were as basic as giving the formula for washing soda, while some were from Class XII, like combination of concave and convex lenses and dormancy hormone of plants. The quiz was over at 4:35 p.m.. The results came that evening itself. Unfortunately, I didn't pass the prelims but I was allowed as an audience to the final quiz.
The following morning, Dr. Anirban Mahapatra, Assistant Director and Publisher at the American Chemical Society, addressed us and gave us an insight into the science stream as well as the Covid-19 pandemic. For the quiz, participants from five schools were selected, but only 4 were present. As we waited for the last school to join, I didn’t want to let go of the chance and asked the organiser if I could get the opportunity instead. But of course, that was not to be. At least I tried!
Finally, the quiz began with just four contestants. Though I had lost the opportunity, I attended the quiz with great interest. There were eight rounds, viz. current affairs, movie clips, inventors, experiments, etc, out of which, the round I liked the most was the experiments round, in which they showed a video, in which an experiment was shown, and the contestant had to name the experiment.
The quiz ended at 11:45 a.m. During the results declaration meeting, Ms Rekha Krishnan, the Principal of the host school, asked the 270 attendees if we wanted to share our experience. I did so and specially praised the elocution of the student who had conducted the quiz.
It was a good learning experience for me and I hope you liked reading about it!
It woud have definitely been an amazing experience.
ReplyDeleteA learning experience indeed!
ReplyDelete-Bhoomi