The internet is full of quizzes and tests, and Playbuzz, a website that specializes in quizzes and tests, has issued a spelling quiz.
The quiz is simple: it displays two spellings of a given word, and participants have to click on the one they believe to be the correct spelling. If the word turns green, they have chosen correctly, while red indicates an error.
Like most such quizzes, the spelling test will give people a message after they’ve completed the test. People who score well will be told, “You are a spelling master!! 99% of people can’t get more than 11/21.” People who flunk the test will simply be told, “Failed!”.
The quiz is one of those challenges that attracts contestants by claiming to be so difficult that only a tiny percentage of test-takers would score a passing grade.
Playbuzz also has a comments section in which people who took the spelling test discuss their spelling prowess or lack thereof. One, Laura Kaye Moses, boasted, “I was taught by my retired Teacher of a mother since I was able to talk, I could read and write at a year 2 level while in preschool.” Jude Mignacca noted that spelling is only one of several skills needed to be truly literate, “I will tell you, that a better indication of ‘reading and writing’ skills are grammar and syntax…
The misuse of punctuation, capitalization and sentence construct show how our schools fail to teach children the skills needed to open up the world of reading and writing to them as they truly deserve.”
