Duolingo English Test app good for
Great concept that can save people a lot of money... I assume new languages are being worked on! French would be great to have! Along with Spanish and German of course!
Ive spent some years administering psychometric tests and Ive written lots of exams for my college courses. This test is very well constructed.
BTW, I scored 10/10--probably as a result of speaking English daily for 66 years…
Some bad moments
I took this test out of curiosity and i received a 69% in fluency in the quick test option. I am a native English speaker, and am quite intelligent and still found these challenges unnecessarily difficult, so i can only imagine another person who does not speak english natively trying to figure this stuff out, i mean the sections where you have to fill in the missing word?? you could use multiple words from the list and it would still sound right, and be grammatically correct. this app is very unrealistic and its 50 dollars?? no way. also, if this app were to ever get better, they really should add more certificates for other languages other than english... If you wanted to spend 50 dollars on a certificate that no one will really give mind to...
What is that?
Do you asking me what is the real English word???
And your paragraph are hard and understandable and more than one answer can be right
As a native English speaker, I also found this test EXTREMELY difficult. When you receive your score from the quick test, it doesnt even tell you what questions you got wrong. Learning another language is already an ordeal, dont make this "test" more difficult than it has be.
Its a harsh app. Does anybody passed this test on mark better than ugly?
And I got an 84% on the quick test option. Everything was needlessly difficult.
The idea, the test cost and the speed are great.
However, having the screen locked to vertical is not a good idea because when the iPad is laying flat on the table, the front camera barely takes the candidate eyes and not the full face.
Also, typing is less easy due to the smaller keyboard in vertical mode.
Lastly, when I finished the test, I waited in front of a spinning wheel for 2 minutes (I guess the app was compressing an packing the test for upload) without any advice on what was going on. So, please add a text like "Please wait while the test is completing..."