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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2008-09-08 05:58 pm

English test

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

Go here and give it a go...

[Poll #1255869]
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[identity profile] hfnuala.livejournal.com 2008-09-08 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I feel compelled to point out that I can't spell, but got all the rule based questions right :)

[identity profile] rhythmaning.livejournal.com 2008-09-08 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] likeneontubing.livejournal.com 2008-09-08 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
i got 18. i stuffed up on apostrophes.

[identity profile] derumi.livejournal.com 2008-09-08 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
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".

[identity profile] seph-hazard.livejournal.com 2008-09-08 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
20, and I actually find it slightly odd that people get any of those wrong!

[identity profile] davidcook.livejournal.com 2008-09-08 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
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 :-)

[identity profile] chuma.livejournal.com 2008-09-08 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
19 - Didn't see the hyphen as being necessary in the "long lost brother" sentence. Oh well.

[identity profile] drjon.livejournal.com 2008-09-08 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Blah. Just woke up. Elementary and very easy test, even when asleep.

[identity profile] dreema.livejournal.com 2008-09-09 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
the last one got me too, and i'm no good with metaphors...
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[identity profile] avatar.livejournal.com 2008-09-09 11:46 am (UTC)(link)
I made a stupid mistake or two.