100% Failure Rate On University of Liberia's Admission Exam

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100% Failure Rate On University of Liberia's Admission Exam

Posted by Unknown on Monday August 26, 2013 @07:01PM from the little-johnny-still-can't-read dept.

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."

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English is Hard by dcollins · 2013-08-26 19:07 · Score: 4, Funny

"fewer than a hundred managed to pass the either the english"

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1. Re:English is Hard by real-modo · 2013-08-26 20:28 · Score: 4, 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."
2. Re:English is Hard by pspahn · 2013-08-26 20:31 · Score: 2, 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....)
  
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3. Re:English is Hard by Anonymous Coward · 2013-08-26 21:01 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Correction... English is difficult
  No, English is the hard substance you put on a ball that makes it spin, duh!
4. Re:English is Hard by Opportunist · 2013-08-26 22:42 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Still, one of the the is one the too much the.
  
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5. Re:English is Hard by Anonymous Coward · 2013-08-27 00:09 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Adamantious is a perfectly cromulent word.
multiple-guess?? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-08-26 19:34 · Score: 4, Funny

"multiple-guess"
Maybe no one can pass because they're taking a multiple guess test rather than a multiple choice test.
Obligatory Simpsons by mrprogrammerman · 2013-08-26 23:29 · Score: 3, Funny

"Me fail english? That's unpossible."
Re:One more reason that such systems make no sense by Errtu76 · 2013-08-26 23:41 · Score: 2, Funny

In Russia .. oh, never mind.