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Post by gailkate on May 11, 2016 18:25:31 GMT -5
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Post by BoatBabe on May 11, 2016 19:44:44 GMT -5
Oh, I would have liked to have taken the English test, but the one I got was "We Bet You Can't Name All These World Leaders Of Past And Present," so I took it. It was pretty easy,but definitely follows your pattern of mostly easy questions with a couple of harder ones. I don't know what classes to attribute. I lived through most of the questions, so it was just memory.  |
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Post by joew on May 17, 2016 18:43:01 GMT -5
The link took me to the "World Leaders" quiz as well. I got them all right, but a lot were giveaways because one of the two people didn't fit the category.
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Post by doctork on May 19, 2016 16:01:15 GMT -5
I skipped the world leaders then googled and found the English test, took it and scored 98% (my careless error, not a hard question that I missed).
My recollection is that we learned grammar and parsing sentences in 8th grade. Maybe 7th and 8th both, I would have to consult my auxiliary brain about that.
Many times I've heard the saying "In 1st through 3rd grade kids learn to read. From 4th grade on they read to learn." I don't recall grammar lessons in 3rd grade or high school. By high school, "English class" was literature and writing papers - research or analytical. I also took Creative Writing in HS, geared to those thinking of writing careers. Both approaches were way beyond basic English grammar, at least in my college-bound classes.
The test seemed pretty easy even for 5th graders, assuming they were already fluent English speakers.
I often keep current with education by talking to my patients who are teachers - what do they teach, how do they feel about their curriculum, how's it going with NCLB. Being between jobs lately I need an update.:-)
Was your question about counting quotation marks? I wondered about that. Don't they always come in pairs? So - is a pair one punctuation mark or two? The test counted the pair as two.
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Post by joew on May 20, 2016 14:40:58 GMT -5
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Post by joew on May 20, 2016 14:47:21 GMT -5
I got an A+ on the playbuzz quiz (10 easy questions).
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Post by joew on May 20, 2016 14:59:36 GMT -5
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Post by doctork on May 23, 2016 1:11:00 GMT -5
The second one you list is the test I took, 50 questions so one wrong = 98% score.
Also - while working on the endless cleaning and sorting of stuff this weekend I found a high school honors biology paper my son wrote, and a nursing grad school paper my husband wrote, both of which contained minor grammar and spelling corrections. I guess Mrs. Nelson, my 7th and 8th grade teacher did a good job with our class so I wasn't making those errors in HS. It WAS a magnet high school after all.
The comments on Howard's grad school paper made by the instructor were themselves full of spelling and grammar errors...
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Post by gailkate on May 24, 2016 0:51:57 GMT -5
I'm going to have to go through the whole thing again, because I've forgotten my question!
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Post by BoatBabe on May 24, 2016 8:49:34 GMT -5
I'm going to have to go through the whole thing again, because I've forgotten my question! You could always Scroll Up instead of Scroll Down. |
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