Basic punctuation - how good are you really?

**Thani-B** · 9th March 2010, 22:00

I have my mastery test tomorrow morning. Grrr. Apparently it's not as easy as I thought it would be. Have a go.

http://commsci.massey.ac.nz/mastery.asp

**Squiggles** · 9th March 2010, 22:07

70% (I did the first 10, the rest hurt my head)

**Ragingrob** · 9th March 2010, 22:15

85%

**Cayman911** · 9th March 2010, 22:18

65%

you have no idea how much i hate this type of test.
they say multichoice, you get excited. you look at it, you cry!

**PirateJafa** · 9th March 2010, 22:27

90%

Cue to Sam spending an hour on Wikipedia when he unfucks his computer, in order to beat my score.

**Thani-B** · 9th March 2010, 22:54

Originally Posted by PirateJafa

90%

Cue to Sam spending an hour on Wikipedia when he unfucks his computer, in order to beat my score.

Show off

Oh well, wish me luck!

**blackdog** · 9th March 2010, 23:26

eww. 70% and not: that, happy about it?

i thought! i was, ok at- this sort of (thing)

and bugger me, still only 80% on the second time around

or should that be a semi-colon?

and do i need that hyphen?

ahhhh shit

**awayatc** · 10th March 2010, 06:01

What's the point.............?

**Jantar** · 10th March 2010, 07:50

Punctuation mastery results

Well done , you have passed this test.
You scored 19 out of 20.

You needed at least 16 correct answers.

You made mistakes in the following areas:
Commas: 1

The bad thing about this test is that it doesn't tell which one(s) were wrong, and so you can't learn from it.

**Ronin** · 10th March 2010, 07:54

Waits for hitcher...

**gilly** · 10th March 2010, 08:03

Argggh. Only 16 out of 20.

Oh well, just as well I only work at a newspaper and don't require that much knowledge of the English language.

**Magua** · 10th March 2010, 08:35

15 out of 20.

**vifferman** · 10th March 2010, 08:36

Naturally (thankfully?)

, on the very first try, I scored 20 out of 20, but there were a couple I disagreed with. Given the option, I would have chosen summat else as the correct answer, or edited the poor grammar.