Published on 12, July, 2020
Here is an update of how my various employment advisors are still struggling to get me into paid work.
My latest advisor sent me to a training company who insisted I take their online functional English test.
What a nightmare, I tried my best and my best was a disaster.
Here's a photo of my results screen.
41% for spelling, punctuation and grammar! I never realised I was that bad.
Some of the questions were torture. Such as the comma question, I was given a paragraph to read and told to find the five comma mistakes, where commas where either missing or superfluous. Oh my first reading I couldn't identify a single mistake.
...Quite frankly, they should have given Your Good Self a "Mathematics" Test instead of an *online* English Test - then You would have succeeded so fantastically that they would have run away in utter terror at Your abillity. (!!!)
As for Myself, I would not like this kind of test at all, although My own "English" is quite good. I would supect *trick* questions, where context is not stated; such as where to put the commas or apostrophes or mispellings, in order to mean different things.
e.g. let us eat Rabbits! - vs. - let's eat, Rabbits! - vs. - lettuce eat, Rabbits!
...Um, Glad Tidings from Myself to You, anyway...!
:).
It's good to hear from you again. I hope you're OK.
The test was a nightmare, but I actually did ok. Which is the opposite of what I did at school, where I felt happy after English exams but the results themselves were a disappointment and I usually failed.
Here my final score on their scale was a 2.4 with me touching a 3 a couple of times (see the graph). Apparently 3 is the highest score.
Their scale goes.
I was placed on level 2.4 after this test.
Originally, my latest career advisor referred me to them to do a basic business administration course. And they insisted I do the English test first.