English language skills test

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:39 am

http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testi ... 8064322170

Advanced
You scored 100% Beginner, 80% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 72% Expert!
You have an extremely good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels' questions correct. This is an exceptional score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don't use them properly. You got an extremely respectable score.

Compared to users who took the test and are and in your age group:
100% had lower Beginner scores.
100% had lower Intermediate scores.
100% had lower Advanced scores.
100% had lower Expert scores.
With respect to Beginner, users aged 45 to 49 scored highest.
With respect to Intermediate, users aged 45 to 49 scored highest.
With respect to Advanced, users aged 45 to 49 scored highest.
With respect to Expert, users aged 45 to 49 scored highest.

avanutria · Post by **avanutria** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 4:17 am

"You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 77% Expert!"

The instructions said the test was set up so that using either British or American English would work, but I think that by that definition, some of those questions had no wrong answer...

I still giggle at "whilst" though.

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 4:18 am

You scored 93% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 72% Expert!
You have an extremely good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels' questions correct. This is an exceptional score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don't use them properly. You got an extremely respectable score.

I have a lower grasp of beginners' English than Cran.

Me now go hide.

Brigitte · Post by **Brigitte** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 4:37 am

Beginner
You scored 100% Beginner, 66% Intermediate, 68% Advanced, and 55% Expert!

This score does not reflect an inability to converse intelligibly, but it does, however, reflect your inability to determine the proper spelling and/or uses of many commonly confused words of the English language. There is no reason to feel bad though. They are commonly confused, so you're not the only one!

Still have not got it fully

, will I ever?
Brigitte

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:04 am

93% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 83% Expert

Best wishes,
Jerry

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:36 am

Brigitte wrote:Beginner
You scored 100% Beginner, 66% Intermediate, 68% Advanced, and 55% Expert!

This score does not reflect an inability to converse intelligibly, but it does, however, reflect your inability to determine the proper spelling and/or uses of many commonly confused words of the English language. There is no reason to feel bad though. They are commonly confused, so you're not the only one!

Still have not got it fully , will I ever?
Brigitte

Your English is really good, Brigitte. One of the differences I've noticed with Germans and Americans is that when somebody corrects the language of an American, it is or can be seen as disrespectful. To tell somebody "you used that word wrong" is a negative thing. However, Germans freely correct people's language mistakes, and it's seen as being helpful. So as a German learning English, you're bound to make a lot of mistakes and people won't tell you. But as an English speaker learning German, I'm bound to make a lot of mistakes, too, but I get a bit annoyed when people correct my German every other word (thus I have found myself NOT using German because I don't want to be corrected like that). It's a cultural difference as much as a linguistic difference.

English is a difficult language to learn, I think, because it takes the difficult parts of Romance languages and blends them with the difficult part of Germanic languages, and has completely random spelling.

missy · Post by **missy** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 6:13 am

Advanced
You scored 93% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 66% Expert!

And Brigitte - as an American, I find it extremely humbling how many of us can't understand any other language but English (myself included) and how many languages people of other countries routinely speak.

Missy

Jens_Hoppe · Post by **Jens_Hoppe** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:07 am

English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 88% Expert!

It seems reading a lot has its advantages.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:23 am

Yes Jens, I was that too. I only wish it were true. Or had any relevance to anything else I might try to do.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:56 am

English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 77% Expert!

HA! If only they knew.

suejnnhe · Post by **suejnnhe** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:09 am

You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 83% Expert!

Well, maybe the 5 kids haven't totally melted my brains!

Lorenzo · Post by **Lorenzo** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:35 am

"You scored 0% Beginner, 0% Intermediate, 0% Advanced, and 72% Expert!"

I couldn't figure out what that score meant because I was sure my answers were corrrect, So, I followed the link at the end of the test that provides the answers. It's the page with a picture of the author saying "would these eyes lie to you?" And just above that, it explained that sometimes the results read "0" when all the answers were actually correct. It says that can't be helped. I think we can safely assume that the machine miscalculates the other way around too. So, all you people with "100," well that can mean "0" as well.

Jeff Stallard · Post by **Jeff Stallard** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:52 am

93% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 55% Expert!

Damn, I scored lower than a lot of you, and I have a DEGREE in English. HAHA!

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:59 am

You scored 86% Beginner, 86% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 61% Expert!
You have an extremely good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels' questions correct. This is an exceptional score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don't use them properly. You got an extremely respectable score.
Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!

I thought I did OK untill I read Lorenzos post

Slan,
D.

ChrisA · Post by **ChrisA** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:09 am

Hmm.

You scored 93% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 77% Expert!

But I scored higher, in all sections, than 100% of people in my age group. I'm not sure
what that says about me, or about my generation, but there it is.

I blame the semi-colon/colon questions for wrecking my score!

(Okay, on the beginner section, I overthought a question and confused myself.)

And Brigitte, the mistakes tested for on this test are seen constantly on the internet,
so, in some sense, making those mistakes is 'natural' English, but not 'proper' English.

Remember, in English, 'ghoti' could be pronounced 'fish'

([gh] from "laugh", the [o] from "women" and the [ti] from "nation", origination credited to Bernard Shaw).