Placement Test Characters

calkins
 September 20, 2010 at 03:27 PM posted in General Discussion

I just took the placement test (which I think is great), but noticed that I got one wrong because I used 什 instead of 甚.

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他什麼時候來上海的
他甚麼時候來上海的

Nobody really uses 甚 anymore ... is there anyway to correct this in the tests so that it uses the more widely used 什?  It's a small thing, but every little point helps!  Thanks.
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calkins
 March 06, 2011 at 06:38 AM

Hi Cpod,

I just took the placement test again.  I'm getting killed on the Dictation section!  But that is mostly because of the way that section is graded.  And I've also noticed another "out of use" character being used in the correct answers.

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他在工作之前不會開車
她在工作之前不會開車。

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她那麼厲害，你很難超過他
他那麼厲害，你很難超過他。

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他耳朵好，應該聽得清
她耳朵好，應該聽得清。

[ Could you please make the answers "gender-neutral", so that both 他 and 她 are correct? ]

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他為甚麼要故意輸掉上次的比賽呢真讓人想不通
他為什麼要故意輸掉上次的比賽呢？真讓人想不通。

[ It looks as if perhaps you guys changed the answers to  have the more commonly used 什.  However, I still noticed some of your questions use the older 甚, that's why I used that one this time.  Perhaps do the same with 他 and 她，make both 什 and 甚 acceptable. ]

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這個故一定真奇怪
規定真奇怪。

[ This was a weird one.  If you could hear the audio, you would be able to clearly hear a distinct 這個 at the beginning of the sentence. ]

鍋裏有一些湯。

[ Does anyone use this 裏？  I think it's a pretty outdated version of 裡.  If not, maybe make both acceptable. ]

 

Anyway, 5 "incorrect" answers out of 25 makes a big difference.  That's 20%!  It would be great if someone could take a look into these and fix them.

Thanks!

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calkins
 October 01, 2010 at 03:08 PM

Another "typo" on the traditional character Level Test:

5. 我有一只_____。

A. 寵物商店

C. 乖

B. 可愛

D. 貓

That 只 should be 隻，correct? 一隻貓

Also, two more wrong because of the use of 甚. There's no way to make my IME type 甚 instead of 什，so it'd be great if that could be fixed. Thanks.

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體操比賽什麼時候開始？

體操比賽甚麼时候開始？

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你最喜歡吃什麼點心？

你最喜歡吃甚麼點心？