• Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    This is how I won all of the reading contests in elementary school. Sure I loved to read, but I also loved winning and the dummies only tallied books read, not pages or minutes or anything more reasonable.

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      10 months ago

      My school has a system where you could only choose eligible books and each book had a pre-assigned amount of points it was worth based on reading level/pages/etc and you would have to take a quiz to make sure you read the book. So I did the opposite and I read 3 really big books worth 40pts each and only had to take 3 quizzes which for some reason were the same amount of questions as lower level books. Wasn’t enough to beat the kids that actually enjoyed reading and read a crap ton of books for fun, but at least I was able to get free tickets to 6 flags each year.

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        10 months ago

        Me, who read a lot of books as a kid but never remembered to take the quizzes on the computer

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      10 months ago

      We had some computerized thing back in the late 90s that gave each book a score, usually based on complexity and length. Though I picked the highest point book we had: Gone with the Wind and ended up much worse off than if I read a bunch of smaller books because it was so god damn boring and slow for like a 5th grader.

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      10 months ago

      This would explain the average of a 6th grade level of language skills among adults today…

      ps I say this as I’ve only read 2 of the books pictured and War and Peace wasn’t among them.

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      10 months ago

      Anything self-reported can be fudged. I won my schools by just saying I spent two hours (or more) a day reading super short books.

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    10 months ago

    Ugh! My younger brother did this and won the library reading contest, I was so mad. All the books he read were around 100-200 pages, I decided to read A Tale of Two Cities and a couple other books like it. It was an injustice I read twice the amount of pages he did.

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      10 months ago

      More like A Tale of Two Shitties your brother deserved that $10 Pizza Hut coupon.

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        10 months ago

        Yes, I was a rather pretentious 12 year old. I think I picked all the books off a high school level recommended reading list because I thought it would impress the judges.

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    10 months ago

    I just checked and apparently my 4 year old has taken out over 100 books from the library.

    I took out like 10 in the same timeframe.