Wednesday, June 28, 2006

All Presidents Final Exam

I finally scored 100% on the all US Presidents Final Exam. Currently the exam is set to display all 128 questions and it took me 16 minutes and 51 seconds to complete. It has been a great deal of fun using StudyTag to slowly slog my way through all this memory work. I was finally motivated to learn my weaker presidents (17-31) by the cool new trophies that display in the trophy room. I even have an Ultimate Carlos trophy in Presidents 9 to 12. I expect that as I learn the Presidents ever better I could shave a few minutes off the time to do all 128 questions. Perhaps I try again in a month or two and report the results.

I have noticed that my knowledge of the Presidents and their terms in office is having a positive benefit on helping me remember other facts about US history. I'll talk about that more in the future including providing specific examples. Of course if you know Lincoln started in 1861 and Johnson in 1865, and you know the Civil War lasted Lincoln's presidency ,then you know the bounding years of the war!

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