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| LorenzoGuapo Triglot Groupie United States Joined 6254 days ago 79 posts - 94 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: French | Message 1 of 9 01 February 2011 at 6:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here is a link to some language proficiency tests, good luck to everyone!
http://www.transparent.com/language-resources/tests.html 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Desacrator48 Groupie United States Joined 5118 days ago 93 posts - 127 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 2 of 9 02 February 2011 at 2:18am | IP Logged | ||
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I just took the Spanish test.
Test itself is not bad...a good quiz more or less of your current skill levels, not really a test because a test would be more comprehensive. Didn't do terribly well though: got an overall score of 75%. Of the 3 sections of grammar, vocabulary, and reading comprehension, I did pretty good at grammar, decent at reading, and not so good at vocabulary. However, I wouldn't classify myself as an advanced beginner as this evaluation tells me. I'm more intermediate when you include my listening and speaking skills, which this quiz did not include. Also, I think the label this website gives on upon grading you purposely grades you down so as to make you think you need more work by coming to their website. For example, I submitted a 100% correct response after this, and it said I was at the intermediate level. This is completely bogus because if you got ALL 50 of these questions right, a rarity I'm sure, you are definitely at solid advanced level. Still recommend you try it though just for fun. Just ignore the label it gives you. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5576 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 3 of 9 02 February 2011 at 2:57am | IP Logged | ||
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I took the German quiz for fun and it told me I'm at an intermediate level. I don't think it actually downgrades, but that the quiz lacks questions that go beyond intermediate.
There's a placement test for DELE exam prep courses online which I took some time ago which was much more conclusive. I don't remember where I took it, but it had one set of questions for each level, beginning with A1 and getting proceedingly more difficult. If you got a certain percentage of a set right, you could proceed to the next, if not, you got the level you hadn't mastered yet as the level you should take a course at. Does anyone know which quiz I'm talking about? It would be kind of interesting to have a number of people take both tests and compare the results ... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5145 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 4 of 9 02 February 2011 at 3:49am | IP Logged | ||
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Apart from the fact that I am apparently at an intermediate level in my native language, the Dutch test also includes two "incorrect sentences" that are perfectly grammatical.
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| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6759 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 5 of 9 02 February 2011 at 5:41am | IP Logged | ||
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I got a 95% in Japanese and an 87% in German.
I agree that the test probably doesn't downgrade, but that it is only meant to test until the intermediate level, because it would be a lot more work to design questions to test the advanced/native level. It was pretty frustrating that it gives you the letter of the correct answer (#6 is incorrect: You chose a. The correct answer is d.) but clears the form if you navigate back to check what the question actually was! If you want to check your answers, either write/copy/print the evaluation before viewing the quiz again, or try opening the "Evaluate" link in a new tab/window after filling in the quiz if it lets you. Edited by Lucky Charms on 02 February 2011 at 5:42am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 5935 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 6 of 9 02 February 2011 at 8:39am | IP Logged | ||
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Hmm. 69% in Japanese. Beginner it says. Yeah, I don't really claim intermediate for Japanese yet. So I'll buy that.
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| ReachingOut Pentaglot Groupie Greece Joined 5047 days ago 57 posts - 81 votes Speaks: English*, German, GreekB2, French, Romanian Studies: Italian | Message 7 of 9 02 February 2011 at 1:16pm | IP Logged | ||
The Goethe-Institut also has a self-evaluation test here you might like to try. http://www.goethe.de/ins/gr/ath/lrn/prf/akt/deindex.htm You need to go to "Testen Sie Ihr Deutsch" to take the test. It goes to a higher level, up to proficiency. I got 28/30 on the Goethe-Institut one and 98% on this one (one mistake) Edited by ReachingOut on 02 February 2011 at 1:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5576 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 8 of 9 02 February 2011 at 2:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Oh, I forgot to mention that DELE is for Spanish, and I also took the Spanish quiz. Which rated me as an advanced beginner. Okay, well.
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