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This reminds me of the Versant test, which is a computer-graded test of speaking ability in various languages. A friend of mind had to take it and I quickly rea
by aikinai 8y ago
This reminds me of the Versant test, which is a computer-graded test of speaking ability in various languages. A friend of mind had to take it and I quickly realized it was both inaccurate and highly gameable.
The full story is that my friend was very fluent in English (though still far from native) but did very poorly twice. I spent some time reading the company's PR and an interview with the founder and realized that they weren't even trying to grade content, only fluency.
So I advised my friend to just speak fast and constantly, even if it didn't make sense. If your story goes down a dead end, or you realize your last verb didn't match this object, don't pause, don't go back, just keep the words coming out. It worked perfectly and she aced it the third time.