NAQT Packet Compositions?
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2017 9:54 pm
Greetings all, I'm new to the forum but had a few questions.
I was wondering if anyone knew of an official NAQT packet composition guideline. Something that determines how many of each type of question are present in each NAQT packet. This is my first year playing on a high school quiz bowl team but I've noticed that there is usually 1 maybe 2 "pencil and paper ready" math question in each packet, at least 1 chemistry question, oftentimes a biology, usually a classic literature question, etc. I was wondering then if there is a specific quantity of each genre of question that should be present in each packet. Even if it is not as something as specific as classic american literature or British history there must be some parameters to ensure that 15 out of the 20 tossups are not on one subject. My team plays 20 question NAQT packets with bonuses but no bounce backs if that helps, I'm assuming that is standard but I wouldn't really know. Personally it feels like our packets are always very literature heavy but that may just be my imagination.
I also had some questions about studying and improving a relatively new team. Next year I will be playing captain but the other three players at the table with me will have very limited experience playing (I myself am a first year player) For practice we study the "You gotta know" booklet from the NAQT website and run old packets. I was wondering if the You Gotta Know booklet is a good source to study or if there is something better out there. I have heard talk of frequency charts and received a few from my coach upon asking but they were quite old and missing pages. One of my biggest problems with you gotta know is its almost complete failure to cover literature (it only has speculative fiction) which hurts our team a lot because as I stated earlier those questions seem to come up a lot. I know this was a long and bulky post but I really want to improve our team and win some tournaments! Thank you
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I was wondering if anyone knew of an official NAQT packet composition guideline. Something that determines how many of each type of question are present in each NAQT packet. This is my first year playing on a high school quiz bowl team but I've noticed that there is usually 1 maybe 2 "pencil and paper ready" math question in each packet, at least 1 chemistry question, oftentimes a biology, usually a classic literature question, etc. I was wondering then if there is a specific quantity of each genre of question that should be present in each packet. Even if it is not as something as specific as classic american literature or British history there must be some parameters to ensure that 15 out of the 20 tossups are not on one subject. My team plays 20 question NAQT packets with bonuses but no bounce backs if that helps, I'm assuming that is standard but I wouldn't really know. Personally it feels like our packets are always very literature heavy but that may just be my imagination.
I also had some questions about studying and improving a relatively new team. Next year I will be playing captain but the other three players at the table with me will have very limited experience playing (I myself am a first year player) For practice we study the "You gotta know" booklet from the NAQT website and run old packets. I was wondering if the You Gotta Know booklet is a good source to study or if there is something better out there. I have heard talk of frequency charts and received a few from my coach upon asking but they were quite old and missing pages. One of my biggest problems with you gotta know is its almost complete failure to cover literature (it only has speculative fiction) which hurts our team a lot because as I stated earlier those questions seem to come up a lot. I know this was a long and bulky post but I really want to improve our team and win some tournaments! Thank you
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