Are you a spelling champ? Take this test and find out
I asked University of North Carolina journalism professor Chris Roush if he’d be willing to share the school’s spelling test with Romenesko readers. He replied: “[What's below] is a test built by a former student that is in the same format as our test. We do not share our test outside of the School.”
* Begin taking the test
* UNC journalism school grammar and spelling test revised
The test seems to think “integration” is a misspelling, and also includes “emphases” as a misspelling even though it’s plural of “emphasis.” I quit after 400(!) questions (21 wrong, including the ones that weren’t), but I’d love to know how many questions there are and what they require as a passing score. Has anyone else given it a spin?
Agree with Brachinus — there are a number of mistakes. “foresee” is indeed a correct word, and “antarctic” should be considered incorrect because it needs to be capitalized. There are more wrong ones in there too. Quite annoying.
We at Penn State followed UNC’s lead several years ago and what I learned from all of this is that it didn’t matter if you tested students and they learned from it, they usually forgot it the next semester. :-)
I teach ESL and that semester can be a weekend, for some students.
Close all journalism schools. Their only use is for washed-up newsies to get a cush 9-to-5 job off the taxpayer’s nickel.