Faulty grammar test/s !

Question

I have been working my way through the various topics / themes in the grammar section then taking the relevant test and keeping the results when I have passed!

I have noticed a big problem when I came to the following section:

Blockquote Negatives and negation << Back to Negatives and negation

I only completed the first 11 questions because I started feeling frustrated!!!

The machine would mark my correct answers wrong/incorrect then return exactly the same answer as being correct! How can you ever get the answer correct that way or get points, when it seems programmed to mark you wrong whatever you return?!!!

When I discovered a pattern: that it was marking my correct answers wrong then giving me exactly the same answers back as correct, I then started copying and pasting my correct answers into an open MS Word document and caomparing the results! Sure enough these answers were exactly the same as mine! ( I did make 3 genuine mistakes and I am not complaining about that! If I really get them wrong, then they are wrong!)

Here are 4 of my answers marked incorrect followed by exactly the same answer/s:

1.Las hormigas han invadido el jardín.(instruction: put the sentences into the negative form)

Las hormigas no han invadido el jardín.* (my answer) X :( machine's correct asnwer: Las hormigas no han invadido el jardín.

2.Los hermanos son bajos Los hermanos no son bajos. (my answer) X :(

machine's correct answer: Los hermanos no son bajos.

3 Bebimos leche con la cena No bebimos leche con la cena. (my answer) X ;(

No bebimos leche con la cena.

4Silvia tiene dos hijos

Silvia no tiene dos hijos* (my answer) X

Machine's correct answer: Silvia no tiene dos hijos.

As I am sure you can see there is no difference between my correct answers marked wrong and the machine's correct ones!

Please nobody get me wrong/misunderstand me here, I am not knocking the grammar section or the wonderful work that went into creating it by the various individuals concerned!

I genuinely believe that there is a fault with this specific topic test and this could extend to others in the grammar section too! I am sure that with occasional answers with teh cardinal numbers 101 + I encountered occasional faults marking an answer as incorrect then giving me back the same answer as correct.

I remember Ray mentioned to me some time ago that the SpanishDict website had been under attack from various Spammers whose profiles had been deleted could these problems be connected?

I will pass this information to the SpanishDict management, too and see if we get any response!

Please could some natives / advanced speakers or other intermediate level speakerswho can write Spanish really well check to see if they experience the same problems/obtain the same results and respond to my post.

Send this via Feedback Feliz. - ian-hill, Mar 16, 2016

Answer 1

Hi Feliz

It's probably a glitch or it's a mistake, but there is nothing we can do at this level about it. You must send it to the administrators so they can have a look and correct any errors.

It's not caused by the "spammers" of late. They have no way of messing with the program. Just contact the engineers at [e-mail].

Rac , I realixe that my friend I appreciate that you cannot do anything about putting it right but some other people could check this topic test and see if they obtain the same results :) - FELIZ77, Mar 16, 2016