rlestina Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Can someone please help me understand what doing well vs. poorly on the NACLO (North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad) means? Here's why I'm confused: Two of my kids are very into logic and/or linguistics. They have spent meaningful time on the NACLO practice puzzles and enjoyed them. They wanted to take the NACLO. The other two had minimal interest, did no preparation, and just tagged along and took it "because why not". You know what happens next, right? The highest scoring kids in my family (by a lot!) were the no-interest, no prep kids. The two who practiced and prepared did much worse than the two who did not. Anyone have any idea why? Is this the kind of exam where you can do well by luck? Can you overprepare and do worse? Or do we just have a big mismatch between interest and talent going on here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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