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[which_chick]

Meme things irritate me. Go be irritated?

You scored 100% Beginner, 86% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 72% Expert! You have an extremly good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels's questions correct. This is an exceptional score.

Yes. I am exceptional. I think we're all on the same page there. However, can someone please tell me WTF a levels's is?

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[ornery-chick.livejournal.com]

A-levels are the final battery of standardized testing that British schoolchildren go through. You can leave school after you've done your GCSEs (about age 16) but anyone who wants to go to university sticks out another year and does their A-levels in whatever subjects are their strong suits, and especially whatever subjects have a GCSE-pass requirement for entrance into whatever university study program they're applying into.

It's kind of like the bastard child of the ACT and the GRE, and they're kind of a make-or-break deal, if you are particularly stuck on applying to one specific school or another.

I'm not 100% certain how it all works, not having gone to secondary school in the UK, but I lived there for a year and went to university there, and therefore heard a lot about the A-levels from my classmates, as well as reading about educational standards, school rankings, and testing in the newspapers.

[ornery-chick.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm a dumbass. You were pointing out gratuitious apostrophe misuse. Zoiks!

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. But you went to university in the UK? That's very cool. That's cool enough to make up for missing the misuse of apostrophe's. << you should be cringing right about now. (It's fun to have someone to play these games with, at least more fun than playing them with people who don't realize there is a game.)

[ornery-chick.livejournal.com]

I went and took their test, and I nearly never do those online tests, and did pretty well, but of course didn't have the foresight to copy-n-paste my scores.

It was a lot like a series of quizes and worksheets my Freshman English teacher deluged us with, though, so it was pretty much the sme test I took about 400 times 14 years ago.