100% Failure Rate On University of Liberia's Admission Exam 308
slew writes "Apparently none of the 24K+ students who sat for the 2013 Liberia University entrance exam got a passing mark, and fewer than a hundred managed to pass either the english (pass level 70%) or math (pass level 50%) sections required to qualify to be part of the normal class of 2k-3k students admitted every year... Historically, the pass rate has been about 20-30% and in recent years, the test has been in multiple-guess format to facilitate grading. The mathematics exam generally focuses on arithmetic, geometry, algebra, analytical geometry and elementary statistic and probability; while the English exam generally focuses on grammar, sentence completion, reading comprehension and logical reasoning. However, as a testament to the over-hang of a civil war, university over-crowding, corruption, social promotion, the admission criteria was apparently temporarily dropped to 40% math and 50% English to allow the provisional admission of about 1.6K students. And people are calling foul."
English is Hard (Score:5, Funny)
"fewer than a hundred managed to pass the either the english"
multiple-guess?? (Score:4, Funny)
"multiple-guess"
Maybe no one can pass because they're taking a multiple guess test rather than a multiple choice test.
Re:English is Hard (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm... "...sentence completion, reading comprehension and logical reasoning..."
"Mange" is a French word, so this is un sentence Franglais.
"Mange" means eat, so "more" is probably a misspelling of "morels", a kind of mushroom. Therefore "America" is also a typo for "Americans", and "than" likewise "that". "Would" is the wrong verb here; it should be "could". An easy mistake for a non-native speaker to make.
Given that, the missing bit of the sentence is at the front.
Answer: "There are still 100 morels that Americans could eat."
Re:English is Hard (Score:3, Funny)
Correction... English is difficult
An adjective such as 'hard' should be reserved for things that are adamantious. (but does it matter if adamantious is a word or not? you still know what it means....)
Re:English is Hard (Score:3, Funny)
Correction... English is difficult
No, English is the hard substance you put on a ball that makes it spin, duh!
Re:English is Hard (Score:5, Funny)
Still, one of the the is one the too much the.
Obligatory Simpsons (Score:3, Funny)
Re:One more reason that such systems make no sense (Score:3, Funny)
In Russia .. oh, never mind.
Re:English is Hard (Score:4, Funny)
Adamantious is a perfectly cromulent word.