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Title: Are you in Command of your English?
Post by: Con on August 18, 2016, 10:28:52 AM
Interesting test.  I took it twice since I didn't quite understand the instructions the first time. 
Word of advice they dont put in any hyphenation which is what tripped me up the first time meaning sleep-walk is sleepwalk and I was scoring those as not a word which screwed up my score

I got a 90% what do you think this nefarious crew of rum swilling grogs can do?
http://vocabulary.ugent.be/wordtest/test
Title: Re: Are you in Command of your English?
Post by: bbmike on August 18, 2016, 10:34:49 AM
Me fail English? That's unpossible!  :P
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Post by: steve58 on August 18, 2016, 10:54:53 AM
Only managed 80%.
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Post by: Pete Dero on August 18, 2016, 11:53:02 AM
71% for a non-native speaker ...  just enough to post here I hope.
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Post by: Silent Disapproval Robot on August 18, 2016, 12:08:38 PM
89%. I question "dishful" and "imagability".
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Post by: Dammit Carl! on August 18, 2016, 12:15:52 PM
At 77%, I have to say that this test is rigged, rigged, I tells ya.
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Post by: Staggerwing on August 18, 2016, 06:21:35 PM
I got 87. I managed to avoid choosing any of the phony words at least.
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Post by: bbmike on August 18, 2016, 06:29:17 PM
What did I score? I take that to the grave.
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Post by: mirth on August 18, 2016, 06:33:27 PM
Quote from: bbmike on August 18, 2016, 10:34:49 AM
Me fail English? That's unpossible!  :P

Cromulently so
Title: Re: Are you in Command of your English?
Post by: MikeGER on August 19, 2016, 06:32:51 AM
You said yes to 66% of the existing words.  <-- yes, i knew "braless" ^-^

You said yes to 0% of the nonwords.     <-- when in doubt i had hit NO, as ordered

This gives you a corrected score of 66% - 0% = 66%.

This is fairly high level for a native speaker   <-- what ? i am not a native speaker
Title: Re: Are you in Command of your English?
Post by: steve58 on August 19, 2016, 03:10:52 PM
Actually with so many newly made-up words (e.g., selfie, tweet, bling, noob, etc) I found myself hesitating and second-guessing over several of the "words".  Fake test words today, accepted English and in the dictionary tomorrow.