Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader

Hey, Kids!

Ever want to know how much smarter you are than 5th graders?  You can take the free kids assessment test, "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" and find out!

This free quiz has 15 questions that were given to actual Fifth Grade students.  Once you finish the test, your results are compared with how well those Fifth Grade students did so you can see if you did better than them.

The 5th Grader Quiz also includes a free analysis of how well you did.

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The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, more commonly known as the FCAT, is a series of exams given to students of specific grade levels over the course of their public school career.  As Florida's public schools are guided by detailed “Sunshine State Standards” and benchmarks in all core realms of academia, the FCAT serves to critically measure students' retention and comprehension of the mandatory curriculum. 

For example, students are assessed depending on grade level on information from topics such as:

·         Grades 3 through 10 – FCAT evaluates reading skills and abilities

·         Grades 5, 8, and 10 – FCAT evaluates reading, mathematics, and science skills and abilities

·         Additionally, grades 4, 8, and 10 evaluate key content material in addition to writing skills

In more closely examining the FCAT, the assessment focuses on “Sunshine State Standards,” which have gradually been established to represent the key material that Florida residents believe their children must understand at each specific grade level. 

For example, the FCAT reading assessments evaluate the construction of meaning from informational and literary texts, while the FCAT mathematics assessments evaluate students' comprehension of the sense, concepts, and operations of numbers, while the math tests continue to gradually evaluate students' measurement, geometry, spatial sense, algebraic, and data analysis skills. 

The TerraNova is a nationally-administered standardized assessment test similar to the ITBS (Iowa Test of Basic Skills) and the SAT-10 (Stanford Achievement Test, Version 10).  The overall purpose of the TerraNova is to provide achievement scores that are valid for most types of educational decision-making.  This gives teachers, parents, and tutors a better understanding of a student's educational strengths and weaknesses which can then be used to help differentiate the student's studies.

The TerraNova test includes questions in each of the 4 main subject areas: Reading / Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Science / History.  Scores in each of these subject areas are then compared as a percentile with other students in the same grade around the nation.  These percentile scores can be useful in judging overall performance of a student irrespective to difficulty level of the questions themselves.  For example, a 90% on a very easy test may not be that good of a score and only put a student at the 50th percentile, but a 90% on a difficult test may be good enough for a 98th percentile meaning that the student scored the same or better than 98% of his or her colleagues.

Since the scores on a test like the TerraNova can be instrumental in shaping a child's education it is very important for students to do well.  That is why we have created extensive practice materials through our www.BrightEducation.com website.

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We are pleased to announce the launch of our Ultimate Sales Challenge.  This free 59-question quiz tests your knowledge in the field of sales and cold calling.  How well do you think you would do against "The Perfect Salesperson"?

Why should you take the Challenge?

• Establish a baseline of your knowledge of selling
• Identify areas of weakness and strengths
• Receive suggestions to improve your performance in your weakest area
• Evaluate the progress of your sales training
• See how you compare to the perfect salesperson in over ten key areas

Throughout the millennia, there are countless stories of men and women who have spent their lives searching for the meaning of life. However, is this a worthwhile pursuit or a waste of time? 

Let us suppose that there is a meaning of life. If it cannot be discovered after hours, days, weeks, months or even years of searching, is it worth taking the time to do so? In effect, does the possible answer merit the search?

It would be hard to find anyone over the age of 10 that has not once wondered why they exist. It seems though that most people either accept an already posited answer to the meaning of life, generally from a theological or philosophical tradition. For some though, it may make more sense to contemplate the subject, find it unanswerable, and then move on to other pursuits.

It is also worth considering if the meaning of life is important on a personal or a grand scale. "What is my meaning of life?" is a very different question than "What is the meaning of all of this?" Then again, does either question matter?  Would knowledge of the meaning of life change all that much in your life?  Certainly the consensus of most accepted meanings given so far has been that your purpose is to live a good life. This may vary depending on the religious leader or philosopher you subscribe to, but this is a very common theme. The search for the meaning of life does not seem to be critical to this idea. Instead, it seems to be built on the search for comfort for you and your family in this life.

There are many people who live good, virtuous, happy lives without spending time contemplating the meaning of it all. To be a good person, to be happy, to love and be loved – all of these are worthwhile pursuits that may actually satisfy the tenets of some philosophies unintentionally.

“I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point I'm afraid where you begin to suspect that if there's any real truth it's that the entire multi-dimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs; and if it comes to a choice between spending another ten million years finding that out or on the other hand just taking the money and running, then I for one could do with the exercise.”- Frankie Mouse, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Legions upon legions of devoted readers of Douglas Adams will have no problem in telling you the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything. As calculated by the second greatest computer to have ever existed, also known as Deep Thought, it is 42. The number 42. There is no more complex meaning to life than that. The problem with this, however, is that The Ultimate Question is unknown. For that solution, the greatest computer to have ever existed was built: Earth. After many eons and more random events than could be imagined, the Question was discovered: "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" as spelled out in Scrabble tiles.

While this is, indeed, both an amusing and fictitious question and answer (also incorrect according to most known methods of multiplication), it poses a reasonable question to any searchers for the meaning of life: what if the meaning of life does not make sense or, worse, offers futility rather than meaning?

We search because we want to know our purpose, to know that we mean something in a universal, not just a local, sense. The problem with searching is always what we might find. If, in fact, the reason for being is not for our own sakes but for some others' needs or even a cosmic gag, is the search still meaningful itself?