If you think you might doing something wrong, you probably are. In this case, the reason that your writing is not making you a better player is that you're doing what I'd call "robot writing." You're stringing a bunch of clues together without even figuring out whether they make sense, and then trying to memorize all the proper nouns you've put together with the answer. I guess this is a great strategy if you're a quizbowl-playing robot, but most of us are not quizbowl-playing robots.Thenerdyjew wrote:idk if I'm doing something wrong? Like can somebody explain how thye write questions? I usually look at a tournament packet, write down the answer, then go on the Torrey Pines Database, write down some of the key clues I see in all of the different questions (simple search), then write a question.
There are two things wrong with this sentence (well, more than two things, but two major factual problems...):Thenerdyjew wrote:Some of his other works include On The Genealogy of Morals, in which he said that truth is a woman.
Thenerdyjew wrote:So then how do generalists know a lot about everything? Do they just spend a ton of hours reading packets upon packets of tossups on basically everything?
DoWon.Kim wrote:Following up on the discussion about studying for quiz bowl, would studying for different categories differ in style? For instance, as a sophomore with less than 1 year of QB experience, studying for categories like FA and Geo seem to me simply rote memorization, whereas science is more conceptual. How should I study categories that solely require memorization like geography, as opposed to categories like literature?
Blanford's Fringe-fingered Lizard wrote:DoWon.Kim wrote:Following up on the discussion about studying for quiz bowl, would studying for different categories differ in style? For instance, as a sophomore with less than 1 year of QB experience, studying for categories like FA and Geo seem to me simply rote memorization, whereas science is more conceptual. How should I study categories that solely require memorization like geography, as opposed to categories like literature?
You don't have to memorize anything if you're doing it right.
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