Best Question Sets

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Best Question Sets

Post by araksuj »

What specific question sets that are available on quizbowlpackets.com are the best to study from to prepare for NAQT questions?
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Re: Best Question Sets

Post by Bosa of York »

It's worth noting that for most of the subjects that NAQT has more of than mACF sets (e.g. pop culture and current events) packet studying is going to be of limited value; it'd be better just to pay attention to the news or consume media to learn about those. In most other categories most any well-written set will help as well as any other; if you're specifically interested in improving for HSNCT then PACE NSC or college sets would be at the same or a bit higher level. If you want to specifically practice on shorter questions I'm not sure there's anything other than NAQT that will help.
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Re: Best Question Sets

Post by RexSueciae »

Yeah, NAQT-specific stuff isn't really stuff you can study for, especially since whatever's in popular culture or the national headlines tends to change from year to year. Your best bet is just to read stuff and play packets like you would for any other quizbowl event.

The question sets whose names are in bold are supposed to be significant in their quality or importance, although I have no idea what criteria are used for those. In high school, most packets written prior to around 2011 or so are of limited usefulness due to the proliferation of bad writing practices, changes in common answerlines, and the like. You can do a quick search on the forums to find out what the community reaction was to a specific question set if you want a rough gauge of the quality--go to "Advanced search" and change it to display results as topics instead of individual posts for greater ease of access after you search for [name of question set]. Or just ask someone who was around in those days.
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