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Propose work you can actually finish

Science · Chemistry · ages 23-24

Name ______________________ Date ____________

When is a question narrow enough?
- When it sounds impressive
- When you can name what changes, what is measured, and what stays the same
- When it covers the whole field
What two things must a proposal argue?
- It matters and your group can answer it
- That the field is large and funds are plenty
- That rivals are wrong and you are first
A good hypothesis must be testable so evidence could prove it wrong.
Circle one: True False
What makes a milestone trustworthy?
- An outsider could check it
- It uses impressive words
- Only your group can judge it
Your plan has one step that may fail. Where do you schedule its test?
- Never, to stay positive
- At the very end
- First, before effort piles around it
Why read your draft like a panel allocating scarce instrument time?
- Panels approve every request
- Scarcity sharpens their questions
- Panels favour the longest proposals
Stating the riskiest step openly makes the rest of a plan less believable.
Circle one: True False
The central idea fails its early test. What keeps the project useful?
- Repeating the same test louder
- Hiding the result and continuing
- A written fallback plan

Answer key

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When you can name what changes, what is measured, and what stays the same · Named variables mean one experiment could settle it.
It matters and your group can answer it · Worth plus feasibility is the whole pitch.
True · Unfalsifiable statements cannot anchor a proposal.
An outsider could check it · Outsider-checkable marks resist self-grading.
First, before effort piles around it · Early failure is cheap and truthful; late failure sinks.
Scarcity sharpens their questions · Competition exposes vague questions and untestable plans fast.
False · Honesty about risk shows thought past the happy path.
A written fallback plan · Fallbacks convert failure into knowledge or a smaller win.