The Commonly Confused Words Test

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The Commonly Confused Words Test

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Heres a fun little test that I found to test your English skills. Try to do it without a dictionary in front of you. I scored:

English Genius
You scored 80% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 83% Expert!
You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly! Way to go!


Here is the link:

http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testi ... 8064322170
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English Genius
You scored 92% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 93% Expert!
You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly! Way to go!

Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!

For the complete Answer Key, visit my blog: http://shortredhead78.blogspot.com/.

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that's what i got, but i don't really understand the 4 categories. i think i get the point behind the test, though.
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Fun test, I scored an "English Genius", the same percentages as Susan. I guess minoring in English in college was a good thing. :wink:
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Unbelievable.... :shock:

English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 100% Expert!

Not bad for a greying olde phart. :lol:

Great link, Susan! :wink:
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You scored 100% Beginner, 92% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 86% Expert!
You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly! Way to go!
Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!

:grin:


This gang does seem, for the most part, to be pretty good with vocabulary.

It's typing I need help with.
I've met Kat and Harry and Stef, oh my!
(And Diana, Richard, nbcatlover, Doug Parkhurst and Marilou, Shelley, "Cemetery" Jeff, Nadzieja, kfactor, Barbara, JoAnne, Michael, Katrina and my 255 character limit is up.)
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Yes, I see a trend here too! I usually understand words and their usage, its just putting them into coherent sentences is what eludes me at times. :lol:

Wow, way to go, Doug! 100s across the board! :grin:
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"It's typing I need help with...."

:wink: !naem uoy tahw yltcaxe wonk I

(I can also write the Gettysburg Address backwards.) :lol:
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Last edited by doug65oh on Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:25 pm; edited 2 times in total


heh :grin:
I've met Kat and Harry and Stef, oh my!
(And Diana, Richard, nbcatlover, Doug Parkhurst and Marilou, Shelley, "Cemetery" Jeff, Nadzieja, kfactor, Barbara, JoAnne, Michael, Katrina and my 255 character limit is up.)
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:lol: The first edit amounted to adding the parenthetical; the second, I apparently didn't strike the "t" just right in "Gettysburg" and only ended up with one.

(!esopppus I efil fo sllaftip eht era hcuS) :lol:
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Post by diana »

OK -- I'm probably just confused by this ....-

According to the answer key, my responses were all correct.

But here's the part I didn't get. Because I'm such a privacy freak, I put in fake details about my birthdate the first time -- but when I saw the test variables were tracked according to age and gender -- I went back and put in my correct age.

Using my daughter’s age, my score produced the following as to where I ranked in relation to other people the same age and gender:
"You scored higher than 65% on Beginner
You scored higher than 69% on Intermediate
You scored higher than 81% on Advanced
You scored higher than 99% on Expert"

But when I put in my age and the same score the ranking changed to:
"You scored higher than 99% on Beginner
You scored higher than 99% on Intermediate
You scored higher than 99% on Advanced
You scored higher than 99% on Expert"

I'm assuming we’re dealing with percentile ranking. So then "scored higher than 99%" means scoring higher than 99% of the other people your age and gender who took the test , right? Then is the implication that older women are less educated in grammar and have faultier vocabularies than younger women?

I know fewer older women have college degrees -- but I've always labored under what now appears to be a delusion that older people read more and are sticklers for grammar and spelling. However, maybe I have this impression simply because of all those old codgers who write to magazine and newspaper editors bemoaning the decline of the English language.

BWT, Doug -- I'm truly impressed by your parlor trick!
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Actually diana I'd suspect you're correct about the age/percentile ratio. It's always confused me a little too, and I've had many tests where that comparison is made.
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Thanks ... I feel better now.
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Post by Kat »

I took the test but didn't wish to give my birthdate information.
A question like that makes me suspicious.
So I exited and will never know...
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Post by Constantine »

English Genius

100% beginner
100% intermediate
100% advanced
86% expert
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doug65oh @ Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:20 pm wrote:"It's typing I need help with...."
Same here, I got 85% Beginner, 85% Intermediate, 80% Advanced, and 93% Expert


I can talk just not on the internet :roll:

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English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 93% Expert!


But then I am a teacher and constantly read and correct student papers. Helps to keep in practice I think!

Never could figure out "further" "farther"---still can't! Thanks for the link!
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Post by Edisto »

Well, I happened onto this thread late and had a unique experience. I didn't get a test at all; I got a mildly pornographic picture! This happen to anyone else? Either the site is down (as the caption says) or my poor old computer can't handle the bells & whistles. :oops:
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:lol: That happened to my mom when I sent her the site. :lol:
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Post by Harry »

I just tried the site and it worked fine.

Perhaps it's your browser. Sometimes AOL has problems with sites. Bill Gates seen to it. :grin:
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Post by 1bigsteve »

92% - 100% - 86% - 86% and no I didn't cheat.

I never was good at this kind of thing. Spelling and word choice was never my big deal. Math neither, nor punctuation. :-?

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Post by Audrey »

How did I miss this when it was new?

MD! What odd results I had!

Very Special Case
You scored 71% Beginner, 85% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 100% Expert!
I don't know how you did it, but you boggle my mind! You got at least 75% of the intermediate, advanced, and expert questions correct, but you got 75% or less in the beginner section. How is this possible? Were you just guessing?????? Either way...

Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!
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Edisto @ Fri May 27, 2005 5:53 am wrote:Well, I happened onto this thread late and had a unique experience. I didn't get a test at all; I got a mildly pornographic picture! This happen to anyone else? Either the site is down (as the caption says) or my poor old computer can't handle the bells & whistles. :oops:

Crap happens, Edisto. I heard Dawn Wells had a company called Wishing Wells that sell's special clothing for handicapped people so I punched in "wishingwells.---" (don't want to send you there) and a page full of bare-breasted chinese ladies popped up. :shock: Go figure. Wishing Wells turned out to be a page on her own web site.

You never know what you are going to get.

Maybe you were snoozing, Audrey. :wink:

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Post by nbcatlover »

Sorry to get in on this late. I've been busy awhile, a while, for a while....(guess which one I blew?)

English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 86% Expert!
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English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 85% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 86% Expert!

Hmmm. I didn't know my english was that good! Ah well, if they had asked questions about the proper use of prepositions or the tenses in complex sentences it would have been a different matter....

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Post by Fargo »

English Genius.

93% Beginner, 86% Intermediate, 100 % Advanced and 100 % Expert.

wuth myy bdd spillng I wuz sipraised tu du su gud.
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Post by Yooper »

93/100/100/100. What has age and gender to do with the scoring? I skipped the questions and scored the test.
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Post by doug65oh »

It’s just a yardstick of sorts, Yooper. If you input the information they ask for, your scores are then compared to others within your age or gender group who took the test.

I just took the same test again after nearly 5 years and had identical results - again: 100% all across the board.
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