English test

[andrewducker]

The BBC are running some intelligence tests. Well, education tests. But still.

Go here and give it a go...

[Poll #1255869]

Comments

[hfnuala.livejournal.com]

I feel compelled to point out that I can't spell, but got all the rule based questions right :)

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Bloody "accommodation"...

BTW Those are old questions - they have been on the BBC website since 2005.

I seem to remember there are also maths and science questions on the BBC site somewhere.

[matgb]

My old job title was 'Accommodation Manager'. One year during a badge redesign I had to send mine back 4 times. How they managed to misspell it that many times I don't know. Admittedly one was my name wrong, but still...

(also, we had to have about 7 redirects on the department email address as well, even internal users with an addressbook got it wrong regularly)

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

BTW Those are old questions - they have been on the BBC website since 2005.

That explains why the link showed up as having been visited!

[likeneontubing.livejournal.com]

i got 18. i stuffed up on apostrophes.

[derumi.livejournal.com]

19/20. I didn't know that "questionnaire" had two Ns. Not that I ever have much use for a 3-syllable word that means "survey".

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

20, and I actually find it slightly odd that people get any of those wrong!

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

Two wrong ! One silly mistake (probably attributable to tiredness), and I thought the question with the long(-)lost brother could just as well have done with an exclamation mark, so there :-)

[andrewducker]

I agree about the -/! confusion.

[chuma.livejournal.com]

I made the same mistake.

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

me too! Also, I can't spell.

[cdave]

IAWTC

[avatar.livejournal.com]

I thought about that, but I figured the comma was there already, so adding an exclamation point would make it ,!

Definitely a hyphen, although I thought it looked fine without it.

[chuma.livejournal.com]

19 - Didn't see the hyphen as being necessary in the "long lost brother" sentence. Oh well.

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Long-lost, otherwise it's ambiguous and possibly a lost brother who's long!

[chuma.livejournal.com]

Surely a long brother who is also lost would require a comma?
i.e. "long, lost brother"

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Hmm, maybe in that case but it's not the best example of that sort of ambiguity. If I wasn't tired I'd think of something!

[drjon.livejournal.com]

Blah. Just woke up. Elementary and very easy test, even when asleep.

[dreema.livejournal.com]

the last one got me too, and i'm no good with metaphors...

[avatar.livejournal.com]

I made a stupid mistake or two.