NTU students who took part in xQUIZit scored better in Asian news than in other categories of general knowledge.
xQuizit is a walk-in current affairs quiz organised by the NTU Current Affairs Society to allow students to test themselves on the happenings of the world today. It was held on October 10th at the void deck of the North Spine.
“We want to test the general knowledge of NTU students and also encourage them to be updated of what is going around the world,” said the society’s president Sahil Gupta, 20, a fourth-year Electrical and Electronic Engineering student. The questionnaires were split into three categories: “Anything Asian”, “Sports” and “Are you feeling lucky?”
On average many students answered three out of five questions correctly in each of the three categories, with many scoring well in the section of “Anything Asian”.
Ong Wei Guang, 20, a first-year Physics and Applied Physics student, won a prize when he participated in all three categories of the quiz. “Some of the questions were rather challenging and required recalling trivial details, which most people who read newspapers wouldn't bother about.”
The winner of the top prize was Saumya Mohan, a first-year student from the School of Computer Science, who walked away with a DVD player.
This is the second year that xQUIZit was held, and the event attracted approximately 250 responses, an improvement from last year’s turnout, which had only 150 participants.
Gupta credited this year’s improved response rate to better publicity. He said that the society had mass-emailed every school in NTU so the news of this event was forwarded to most students in the university.
For next year, Gupta believes that students can do better.
“I hope that this event might encourage the students to improve their general knowledge about anything going around them. Most of the students were fine in answering the quiz questions but I believe that the bar can be raised,” said Gupta.
