Here’s another mildly frustrating article on English tests out of the UK. It appeared in The Times.
In their discussion of universities accepting scores from the Duolingo English Test, the author quotes a post from the Duolingo English Test subreddit. The quote is presented in the article as a complaint about how the AI scoring used in the Duolingo English Test penalizes accents. But, in fact, the Reddit post was about scoring in a third party practice app… not the Duolingo English Test.
The article also invites users to “Test [their] English with a Duolingo quiz.” The quiz appears to have been built using heavily modified (and simplified) practice questions from the Duolingo English Test website. This could give readers an incorrect impression of the test’s content.
Also: the quiz is incorrectly scored.