ClarissaMach
Joined: 18 May 2006
Posts: 644
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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 Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:18 am Post subject: Native English speakers and English proficiency exams |
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Dear friends,
I'd like to share with you something very interesting that happend to me today.
Driven by curiosity, I decided to do an online proficiency test in my native language, Portuguese (all I had to do was to search for the words "Portuguese" and "proficiency" at google).
I did the test and although I was able to answer all the grammar questions without commiting any mistake, I couldn't help noticing that there were some dubious questions in which more than one of the given answers would fit.
What is more unbelievable is that I failed in two questions of Portuguese reading comprehension . . .wow! I always thought my Portuguese was impeccable! Should I be ashamed?  Or that whole test was too ambiguous?
To make things worse, I noticed two grammar mistakes in the text we were supposed to read and comprehend. I even send an e-mail to the owners of the website asking them to correct it. They already gave me a reply, believing I was someone trying to learn Portuguese. . . .
Well, all this blah-blah-blah was to ask a simple question: what do English native speakers have to say about the English proficiency exams? Do you find it hard to do? Ambiguous and so on? Please tell us!
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