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The English test that ruined lives (2022)
- hunglee2 3y agoMany ethnically white English born English people would fail immigration language testing. Languages change for a start, there is no standard way to speak English, as can be attested by how the language has evolved through usage throughout the world.
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- fakedang 3y agoForget that, most of the ethnic white English folks wouldn't even pass their own citizenship test. How many Englishmen even know the year William the Conqueror invaded Britain?
- graemep 3y agoI am an immigrant and I knew it at the age of seven. I remember because it came up in a school interview.
- cafard 3y agoAccording to Yeatman and Sellar, that's the only date most of the English know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1066_and_All_That https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1066_and_All_That
- YeGoblynQueenne 3y agoPosted for the evidence of mismanagement of a large-scale IT project which I think "good hackers would find interesting" (per guidelines). FTA: In fact, most people who received a test recording found it didn't contain their voice, which appeared to support claims that they had cheated. Digital forensics expert Professor Peter Sommer said: "What seems to have happened is that the voice files became somehow separated from the individuals." However, it was impossible to verify the files were what ETS said they were because they contained no electronic metadata showing when and where they were created.
- HL33tibCe7 3y agoI wonder whether the author knows that “electronic metadata” can be faked just as easily as (in fact, more easily than) the files themselves.
- fakedang 3y agoThe UK and mismanaged IT projects running with rampant fraud - name a better duo.