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I Am An English Genius

A genius at English, that is--not a genius who is English.

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

Compared to users who took the test and are and [sic] in your age group:

* 100% had lower Beginner scores.
* 100% had lower Intermediate scores.
* 100% had lower Advanced scores.
* 100% had lower Expert scores.

Hmmm...

Unfortunately it doesn't tell me what my score actually was. And I guess that if I were a little older, I'd have more competition.

Posted by Rand Simberg at March 07, 2005 07:32 AM
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I wonder how many people who write in here, will score high marks on this test? It would seem most of us would.

Thanks for that link Rand, it was fun!!

Posted by Steve at March 7, 2005 07:46 AM

I got a 100%, 100%, 93%, 72% and was born in '76. I am only advanced.

Posted by Dave at March 7, 2005 10:40 AM

93% beginner (damn that tricky question 4!)
100% intermediate
100% advanced
83% expert

Posted by bloatboy at March 7, 2005 10:52 AM

I'm a bit suspicious of the test, although I scored apparently *very* poorly with my raw score, I got 99 percentiles across the board.

"Li'l Bit
You scored 26% Beginner, 20% Intermediate, 6% Advanced, and 72% Expert!"

Which is a *very* strange distribution. But my percentiles were:

"My test tracked 4 variables. How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 99% on Beginner

You scored higher than 99% on Intermediate

You scored higher than 99% on Advanced

You scored higher than 99% on Expert"

As in: huh?

Looks pretty buggy to me.

Posted by Ian Woollard at March 7, 2005 10:53 AM

"You scored 93% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 55% Expert! "

Im not a native english speaker, self-taught and i never lived in any english-speaking country for extended periods, born in '78

I'd call that test bollocks :P

Posted by kert at March 7, 2005 12:08 PM

Other fun things include the test engine sometimes gives you 0 even if you got the right answer, and you score twice as much for getting the right answer when there's more than one possibility, than for one where only one answer is correct...

Posted by Ian Woollard at March 7, 2005 12:21 PM

It could be buggy, or the great unwashed majority are extremely illiterate. But then, that would be the majority of test takers. Hmm...I guess my score 86, 93, 93, 88 might be bogus.

Posted by Jeff Arnall at March 7, 2005 01:08 PM

I got:

* 99% had lower Beginner scores.
* 99% had lower Intermediate scores.
* 99% had lower Advanced scores.
* 99% had lower Expert scores.

Rand was the other 1%. >=(

Posted by nimcha at March 7, 2005 06:46 PM

I scored 100% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 88% Expert.

I scored higher that 99% on Beg.
" " 99% on Inter.
" " 99% on Advan.
" " 99% on Expert.

What gives? This test is still buggy.

cube

Posted by cube at March 8, 2005 07:49 AM

dis wasn't no hard thang to do. I gots 100 on all dat.

And my peeps wonder what be goin' on wif dah lang-gig we use.

Posted by ice-trey at March 8, 2005 01:55 PM

Advanced Beginner: You scored 100% Beginner, 53% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 72% Expert!

Hmmm, English is not my mother tongue. But perhaps I should attend an English grammer class.

Posted by Carl at March 9, 2005 02:21 AM


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