Try to solve this English question. (from these year's SAT of South Korea) - General

[IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/s/rwofedjj34l3pix/35.jpg[/IMG] It's the most difficult question of 2013 Korean SAT. How do you think of this qustion? (something like difficulty and etc.) and try to solve this question. (There's time limit: 1 min 40 sec. Korean students have to solve 45 questions in 1 min 40 sec.) [I]There's a correct answer at the bottom of this post. [/I] [quote][sp]correct answer is 5 (only 14 students got the right answer per 100 students.)[/sp][/quote]

[QUOTE=ddok1994;42860394][I]There's a correct answer at the bottom of this post. [/I][/QUOTE] put it in spoiler tags, [noparse][quote][sp] <answer> [/sp][/quote][/noparse]

45 questions in 1 minute 40 seconds? Is every question similar in length to this one? I mean, I'm a pretty fast reader, but I don't see how anyone could hope to answer 45 of those in that amount of time.

[QUOTE=kirby2112;42860470]45 questions in 1 minute 40 seconds? Is every question similar in length to this one? I mean, I'm a pretty fast reader, but I don't see how anyone could hope to answer 45 of those in that amount of time.[/QUOTE] I thought this too but then I realised South Korean and Asian

[QUOTE=kirby2112;42860470]45 questions in 1 minute 40 seconds? Is every question similar in length to this one? I mean, I'm a pretty fast reader, but I don't see how anyone could hope to answer 45 of those in that amount of time.[/QUOTE] i just assumed it was 1 min 40 sec for [i]each[/i] because if not, then holy shit what the christ

[QUOTE=kirby2112;42860470]45 questions in 1 minute 40 seconds? Is every question similar in length to this one? I mean, I'm a pretty fast reader, but I don't see how anyone could hope to answer 45 of those in that amount of time.[/QUOTE] 22 qustions is listening questions and they take 1 min per a question. other questions are all reading questions. two letters for 5 questions are longer than this question. [editline]d[/editline] shit, I just realized that I miswrote. [B][URL="http://facepunch.com/member.php?u=241731"]Zukriuchen[/URL][/B] is right.

Wow, that's near impossible. Because of the level of formality and lingual density you need at least one and a half minute just to fully comprehend the text, then deduct what answer relates best to the problem Korean school is strict man

God damn that'd be difficult for a non-native speaker, especially given the time constraint.

how the fuck are students supposed to know what the "code of intellectual conduction that defines a scientist" is [editline]14th November 2013[/editline] id answer with answer 1 any day, and id argue that its the correct answer

[QUOTE=ddok1994;42860498]22 qustions is listening questions and they take 1 min per a question. other questions are all reading questions. two letters for 5 questions are longer than this question. [editline]d[/editline] shit, I just realized that I miswrote. [B][URL="http://facepunch.com/member.php?u=241731"]Zukriuchen[/URL][/B] is right.[/QUOTE] when i first read the passage, I was rushing through it as if I was taking the actual test, keeping in mind of the incredibly short 1 min, 40 sec allotted time for supposedly the [i]entire[/i] test. Needless to say I felt really inadequate after. :v:

[QUOTE=Flip pl;42860549]how the fuck are students supposed to know what the "code of intellectual conduction that defines a scientist" is [editline]14th November 2013[/editline] id answer with answer 1 any day, and id argue that its the correct answer[/QUOTE] They have not to know the "code of intellectual conduction that defines a scientist". but they have to infer what "code of intellectual conduction that defines a scientist" is by reading given essay

neat i got it right but yeah this is probably super hard for any non-native speaker

[QUOTE=ddok1994;42860566]They have not to know the "code of intellectual conduction that defines a scientist". but they have to infer what "code of intellectual conduction that defines a scientist" is by reading given essay[/QUOTE] thats still bs, the text defines two things: what science is and what becomes of it when it meets the public the only part i could induct the correct answer from is "the scientist becomes (...) a publicist" i cant understand how is that the correct answer

[QUOTE=No_0ne;42860579]neat i got it right but yeah this is probably super hard for any non-native speaker[/QUOTE] I managed to do it, and i'm not a native speaker. But i'm pretty much better at English than my native language so i'm not quite sure if it counts. :v:

I got it right. It's no different from Brazil's test. You have to choose between 5 answers, 4 of them are wrong and the right one is still kinda wrong.

This sounds like the sort of paragraph I make up when I need to pretend I'm a lot smarter than I actually am.

The paragraph is bullshit and nobody English would use it. Spoken aloud it'd be easier. It seems more like someone foreign has used their grammar rather than modern English grammar. It works in English grammar... but barely. I think it could be archaic.

It's ok IMO to use hard grammar to make a question more difficult, but most koreans are so bad in english already. That would be hard even here, but not the most hard question of an exam.