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marky
03-10-2005, 11:08
I got 6/10 but i'm thick, have a go and post your results ;)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/testthenation/english/index.shtml
For those at work there is music
Jules
03-10-2005, 11:22
I also got 6/10
danielf
03-10-2005, 11:28
7/10
Roy MM
03-10-2005, 11:32
6/10 but i think it tells porkies. :D
marky
03-10-2005, 11:33
6/10 but i think it tells porkies. :D No roy its the time limit ( stops the googling);)
Halcyon
03-10-2005, 11:36
7/10

:)
Derek
03-10-2005, 11:44
7/10 for me as well.
Martin
03-10-2005, 11:45
7/10 Roll on 8th of October!
Jules
03-10-2005, 11:58
It would have been nice to be told which ones I got wrong
marky
03-10-2005, 12:00
It would have been nice to be told which ones I got wrongAaah But then you could go back and get 10/10 :nono:
Jules
03-10-2005, 12:01
As if :angel:
Martin
03-10-2005, 12:01
It would have been nice to be told which ones I got wrong

True we can't learn if we don't know what we got wrong.
Ramrod
03-10-2005, 12:20
7/10...
Nugget
03-10-2005, 12:45
10 / 10 (aren't I a clever boy?) :disturbd:
punky
03-10-2005, 12:46
10 / 10 (aren't I a clever boy?) :disturbd:

If you were REALLY clever you would have said 9/10 to make it look less obvious that you faked it ;)
Nugget
03-10-2005, 12:47
If you were REALLY clever you would have said 9/10 to make it look less obvious that you faked it ;)

Ah, but I'm not clever enough to fake it :D

And you're only jealous anyway :p:
marky
03-10-2005, 12:47
There is also a 1/10 chance of a person getting 10/10 by accident :p:
Nugget
03-10-2005, 12:49
There is also a 1/10 chance of a person getting 10/10 by accident :p:

Well! Coming from the guy who admitted he's thick...

:PP:
danielf
03-10-2005, 12:51
There is also a 1/10 chance of a person getting 10/10 by accident :p:


Actually, it's .33^10, or .0000059 :)
Nugget
03-10-2005, 12:52
Actually, it's .33^10, or .0000059 :)

See - told you he was thick :D
marky
03-10-2005, 12:54
See - told you he was thick :D oi nug :ninja:
Nugget
03-10-2005, 12:54
oi nug :ninja:

You said it first ;)
marky
03-10-2005, 12:56
You said it first ;) Maybe but your on a roll today http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/showpost.php?p=592036&postcount=15;)
Nugget
03-10-2005, 12:57
Maybe but your on a roll today http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/showpost.php?p=592036&postcount=15;)

Surely that should be 'you're on a roll today'?

:PP: :D
marky
03-10-2005, 12:58
:PP: :Sprint:
makikomi
03-10-2005, 21:52
I got 8/10 and I was surprised. Having said that, there were a couple of questions where I was not familiar with a term used, so I had to make an educated guess. :(
Pia
04-10-2005, 23:57
8/10 for me. Pretty impressive i thought!

Although i didn't know where to go for some 'britneys' so i went to the greengrocers:D
marky
04-10-2005, 23:58
8/10 for me. Pretty impressive i thought!

Although i didn't know where to go for some 'britneys' so i went to the greengrocers:D Britney spears =beers i think :dunce:
Pia
05-10-2005, 00:00
Britney spears =beers i think :dunce:



Aahh seems pretty obvious...i feel a little blond now.. Ahem.. i mean blondE!! ;)
Millay
05-10-2005, 00:48
YAY I got 7/10 the 8 should be interesting..
marky
08-10-2005, 21:51
Is anybody doing it ?
smicer07
08-10-2005, 21:52
Done it online. Not really a test of English though..
marky
08-10-2005, 21:56
Its mostly slang, and what you thing it means.
Angua
08-10-2005, 22:02
:shrug: I thought it was out of 70?
greencreeper
09-10-2005, 00:05
:shrug: I thought it was out of 70?
It is - I think this thread is from when it ran before. I got 42/70 - mostly questions on stuff I don't need to know or would never listen to.
Angua
09-10-2005, 00:10
53/70 Spelling and Comprehension was my weakest link ;) Language my best :)
Bob
09-10-2005, 00:29
I got 54/70 :D I was really chuffed with that!
punky
09-10-2005, 01:54
I see men and women came dead even in the results. The one thing that women are scientifically proven to be better than men at, and they draw :)
Paul
09-10-2005, 03:13
45/70.

Even my youngest daughter got 31 (okay, so she guessed a few .... ;))
cookie_365
09-10-2005, 10:31
55/70.

But I thought the questions were poor. They couldn't seem to decide what they were actually testing - was it your spelling, was it your understanding, your ability to memorise facts in a clip, or your grammar?

Example: in the bit with the 'Terry Wogan' clip, there were two questions: what was the name of the town where the traffic jam was, and what was the name of the caller? Well, I got the town, because that's an important fact, but who cares about the name of the caller? When you hear a traffic report on the radio, you don't care who it is who called in with the information :erm:

Oh, and as an aside - who was it doing the impersonations? Have you ever seen anyone look less like Terry Wogan? Have you ever seen anything less funny on Saturday evening TV? (Except on ITV1?)

I didn't think anyone used canned laughter any more.

But one thing was really funny: John Humphrey's story about the preposition at the end of sentences. Not the story itself, but everyone's reaction. I've heard it before myself, but he told it so badly and his fake New Orleans accent made it really hard to pick out what he was saying. So it was hilarious watching peoples faces with that giveaway 'I'm laughing because everyone else is but I've no idea why' expression :D