What's The Answer To This Jamaican Grade 6 Exam Question?

[analog]

Thats not what the question is asking.

Question presents a point in time, 12am, and asks you to select from a few options what the next closest point is.

You are differentiating between the midnight that past, and the next. What in the way the question was posed lead you to make that distinction?

 

[skokiaan]

Put away your calculators and 6 certs logic, this is grade 6..at that level the clue is AM...therefore the closest number to 12am is the correct answer.

If am wrong. fukk em kids

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Time is culturally biased

 

[Savvir]

12:03am is the correct answer & I promise I hate any grown ass adult that thinks otherwise. If I ran a country I promise it would be a crime to be stupid in public

Time is linear. If you were trying to get to midnight the quickest, which time would you start at?

Using your answer, you'd have to wait 23 hours and 57 minutes to get to midnight.

 

[BBG]

Time is linear. If you were trying to get to midnight the quickest, which time would you start at?

Die

 

[Savvir]

Die

We all will eventually. You don't have to request the inevitable.

 

[Prodyson]

At what point did we indicate/learn that “to” only indicates a relationship involving forward movement? That is not how that word or phrase is used in everyday context. If, in the moment, two people are running a race and one person is 5 yards behind someone and another person is 20 yards in front of them and you ask who is the person closest to you’d probably say the person behind them (and indicate he is behind) even though the race is moving forward in the other direction.

Now if the context of this is that time moves foarward and can’t move backwards, then yes I can see why the answer would be 11:55am, but we’d need to know the context of the question/lesson… otherwise, its a trick question and the type of question that shouldn’t be on a test. At best, it should be on an informational test to see how a student thinks.

 

[Fillerguy]

Question presents a point in time, 12am, and asks you to select from a few options what the next closest point is.

You are differentiating between the midnight that past, and the next. What in the way the question was posed lead you to make that distinction?

Its asking what's the closet time to midnight, period. You framing the question is referencing a sequence of events. Its not.

If you want to get metaphysical with it. Time isn't linear, it has not order. "Time" doesn't really exist, its a measured of a point in space-time. Like any measurement, its meaningless w/o a real world reference point. You assume it means the "next" midnight when you could've just as well assumed the "next" midnight was 300 years from now.

No frame of reference was presented here so we have to take the question in face value: "The closet time to midnight" would be the 12.03 am.

 

[africngiant]

i say letter d

 

[analog]

Its asking what's the closet time to midnight, period. You framing the question is referencing a sequence of events. Its not.

If you want to get metaphysical with it. Time isn't linear, it has not order. "Time" doesn't really exist, its a measured of a point in space-time. Like any measurement, its meaningless w/o a real world reference point. You assume it means the "next" midnight when you could've just as well assumed the "next" midnight was 300 years from now.

No frame of reference was presented here so we have to take the question in face value: "The closet time to midnight" would be the 12.03 am.

My bad breh we clearly misunderstood each other. 12:03AM is my answer as well but I wasn't clear enough.

 

[null]

using coli time ?

 

[High Art]

And where's the poll so I can see how these coli scholars are voting

This. I want to see.

 

[Luke Cage]

so basically its a matter of if the times after midnight can still be considered close to the prior midnight or they automatically are taken in relation to the next midnight?

 

[levitate]

D.

 

[Luke Cage]

Chronologically the answer would be A.

But in terms of general proximity the answer would be D