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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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).
I definitely missed everytime when it had to be one of the “all above” or similar buttons, so definitely understanding problems on my side. Jens, I am gobsmacked! VERY good!
It was fun to do it though and it would be interesting to know how the result would be, if they had the option “non-native-speakers” as well.
Was fun!
Brigitte
Cran, I am untypical German as I am often too lazy to correct Colin’s German, in fact we mostly speak English so I am profiting from his corrections
…and even now I still do not like beer and you should see the looks I get when I say so…“what German and don’t drink beer” hehe…
It also told me that I scored higher than 100% of people in my age group in all categories. Does it just say that to everybody? Several people have said that they were given that statistic.
It gave me all those 100% stats too. And to most of the rest of the Chiffboard. This is starting to sound statistically improbable.
I’m almost surprised there was no solicitation at the end. See, once I took the verbal iq test on the website of the International High IQ Society (yes, yes, dumb name, yes,) and I scored pretty well. Whereupon there popped up an immediate offer for me to send them $50 so I could join their bro/sisterhood of equally gullib…I mean, intelligent folk. That dampened my enthusiasm a wee regarding the validity of their iq tests.
, will I ever?
hehe…