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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6150 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 4 18 August 2010 at 5:37pm | IP Logged |
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Just stumbled across this story about a 30 year old man who sat the Irish school leaving exams in 30 subjects. Eight of his subjects were languages at the ordinary level, which he passed,
English, Irish , French , German , Spanish , Italian , Russian , Japanese , Swedish. He failed Biblical Hebrew. The Irish leaving cert at ordinary level is between a GCSE and an A level in England. I'm not sure the equivalent in other countries. Read the full story here. Edited by DaraghM on 18 August 2010 at 5:43pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| noriyuki_nomura Bilingual Octoglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 5339 days ago 304 posts - 465 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Japanese, FrenchC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, SpanishB2, DutchB1 Studies: TurkishA1, Korean | Message 2 of 4 18 August 2010 at 5:43pm | IP Logged |
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Any idea what is the equivalent level of GCSE/A level to CEFR standard?
B2? C1? Edited by noriyuki_nomura on 18 August 2010 at 5:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| brian91 Senior Member Ireland Joined 5443 days ago 335 posts - 437 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 3 of 4 18 August 2010 at 5:46pm | IP Logged |
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Go Waterford. His predictions for the Leaving Cert really helped me with Biology. He said he would have passed
Biblical Hebrew if he had just one more day to revise. I got 450 points and am very happy, thrilled in fact, and I don't use that word often. :D I got a B2 in higher level German too by the way. Edited by brian91 on 18 August 2010 at 5:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Declan1991 Tetraglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6438 days ago 233 posts - 359 votes Speaks: English*, German, Irish, French | Message 4 of 4 20 August 2010 at 1:48am | IP Logged |
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He passed at ordinary level which is a very low standard, high A1, perhaps low A2. If you're really interested, you can get the papers and marking schemes here.
On the other end of the scale, an A1 at Higher Level (that is 90% to 100%) would be equivalent to a a B1 CEFR, probably a lower B1. By the way, I just got an A1 in German and an A2 (85% to 90%) in French so I'm delighted! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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