Fifth Posting……. (Online Testing Review)

Question: 1.List the url of the online test 2.Try the test and explain what is the test all about 3.Write the advantages and disadvantages. (Time- too short, too long, no time indicator? Technicalities- computer breakdown, internet connection. Typing skills – going back to earlier questions, exiting the test. Content- biasness, cultural aspects, accuracy of the test, accuracy. Score- reliable, analysis of mistakes, can be used for entrance or exemption purpose. Usefulness- as practice, as placement test, as quiz, as time filler during class)

Hello….. It’s me once again. This week, I’m going to discuss about “ONLINE TEST”. What is Online Test? Based on my knowledge, I can define online test as test that are digitallty stored on the internet. We can do these test through the internet.   

First of all, I would like to introduce a link or url that contain online test:

http://www.examenglish.com/

I tried some of the test during my tutorial class. Basically, the online test offered by the link above covered all the English Language skills. The test contains reading section, listening section, grammar quizzes, English level test and so on.  

1. Reading section: An article is given. We must read through the article and answer 11 questions regarding the article within 20 minutes if I’m not mistaken.

2. Listening section: A recording is played. We must listen to the recording and answer all the questions.

3. Grammar quizzes: These quizzes include all the grammar aspects such as Nouns, Verbs, Adjective, Preposition and Tenses. We can answer the questions according to the grammar aspects. For example: If I want to answer questions about Nouns, I can just click on Nouns. All the questions are multiple choices. We must pick the correct answer and answer all the questions within the time limit.  

4. English Level Test: This test is very special as it tests our English level. We must answer all the questions given within the time limit and we can straight away know our result and our English level.

(The website or link above is very fun and interesting as it contains many test which are very challenging for me. I found that its fun to answer the questions online and I had learned lots of new things regarding English through the website.)

Now, I’m going to discuss about the advantages, disadvantages and usefulness of online test.

Advantages: 1. All the online test contain time indicator. That means we are given a period of time to answer all the questions. When the time end, the system will automatically block the questions. 2. We can straight away get our result by clicking on the result button. This help to save our time as we don’t have to wait for our teachers or tutors to mark our test papers. 3. The answers given are very accurate and there are no any marking errors in online test because the answers are computerized and everything is stored permanently on the system. 4. There are many types and set of test. We can have a wide range of test to do in just a few hours and all the test and exercises are usually free. 5. We can save many money as we don’t have to buy any workbooks to do. we can just click on the websites and answer all the questions.  

Although online test brings lots of advantages and benefits to us, there are also some disadvantages too. Disadvantages: 1. We can refer books to look for answers when we are doing online test. This can be considered as unfair as usually we cannot refer to books during test. We will not know our mistakes too if we refer to books during the online test. 2. We will not do the test seriously because there are no any teachers and tutors beside to observe us. 3. Some places across our country don’t have internet coverage. So, not everyone in our country can do the online test. If the computers break down or there is no electricity supply (black out), we also cannot do the online test. 4. Sometime, the content of the online test is a bit bias because the online test not only from our country, it can also from other countries. For examples: The passage from the reading section is about history from other countries, we will have some difficulties to answer the questions as we don’t know much about other countries’ history. Sometimes, other people from other countries can have different accent when they speak English, so when we do the test for listening section, we may facing some problems with to understand the pronunciation.

Usefulness: 1. We can do these online test as practice while we are preparing for our final examinations. 2. As time filler during class. Teachers can do the test together with their students if they have extra time in the class. This online test is very attractive and can easily attract the students’ attention.   

That all for this week. Thanks for spending time to read.

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