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paulb
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Having complained about other contributors reading tests, someone has just failed mine for the Ricochet of Sunbeams. However, you've still kept the assignment, so if you are out there somewhere, I have just made it easier. That might throw you even more, since now a couple of the questions have changed. Paul 
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PERRY
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Sorry paul - not that it was me - but that's not the way it works. You are given two chances to pass and if you are still as clueless it is whisked away and given to someone else. So don't be expecting the same reviewer.
You might appeal to them to give you a free will. Just letting you know.
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paulb
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Okay, thanks for telling me that. I just noted that it was still assigned to someone and I assumed it was the same person. Must have been reassigned.
Just for the record, I try to make my questions relevant to the main themes of the story. So the fact that Tom is wearing his judo outfit at Sunday dinner (one of the questions) turns into a major issue in what follows. When reviewing, I've come across questions such as 'What colour were Marjorie's shoes' which needless to say I haven't retained and have had to pick my way back through the story to find the answer. Now I've gone and changed the above question, thinking it was one of the hard ones. Panicking, not good.
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SIODAI
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A reading test failure isn't necessarily a bad thing. Although happily few and far between, there are members who only read half of what you've written then use the 'find' function on Word to search for answers to your test. Generally those who give a 100 word review with no suggestions. I've deliberately made my reading test easily passable for those who've read my work properly, but all three answers are there to each question if anyone uses the 'find' function. If someone fails my test I feel relieved not to get their review. 
Waking the Dragon
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rosefitzrobert
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Quote: paulb, Sunday, 22 Jan 2012 11:21Okay, thanks for telling me that. I just noted that it was still assigned to someone and I assumed it was the same person. Must have been reassigned. Just for the record, I try to make my questions relevant to the main themes of the story. So the fact that Tom is wearing his judo outfit at Sunday dinner (one of the questions) turns into a major issue in what follows. When reviewing, I've come across questions such as 'What colour were Marjorie's shoes' which needless to say I haven't retained and have had to pick my way back through the story to find the answer. Now I've gone and changed the above question, thinking it was one of the hard ones. Panicking, not good. I know what you mean about questions that refer to what seemed to me as a reader to be forgettable details. In one of my first reviews on the site, I had a reading test that asked the name of the street the character lived on. In terms of the selection anyway, it was not significant, and I was surprised that the writer had chosen that question. I've had other "geographic" questions in other tests I've taken, and while specific location *could* be important in a story, in all the instances here on YWO that I encountered it, it did not appear to be. I mean, it wasn't a clue in a mystery, for example. I found myself wondering if people create such tests because of the tests we've been given at school, where one is asked to memorize details, but the context (theme) goes largely unaddressed. Such as in history (dates of wars, names of heads of state etc, no big picture of why things happened as they did)
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paulb
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That's reassuring. Nobody has ever failed on of my reading tests before and nobody has ever complained about them. If the next reviewer fails it then I'll start to worry.
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PERRY
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Oooooh, that's canny, SIODAI.  The tests are there only to ensure that the reader has read all the way through and hasn't skimped. We are told to make them easy questions, Paul, so it's best to stick to non-conceptual topics - if you get my drift. I failed two reading tests for the reason that the answers simply were not there. This can happen when a writer acts on review advice, changes things around and omits others, but forgets to amend the questions accordingly. The two pieces concerned with my failures were going to be hammered anyway, because they were incredibly awful pieces, full of confusing logic and near-illiterate. I soldiered on through them, wasting hours trawling for good points and figuring out how to use those to improve the stories - only to be unable to answer two questions because of the writers' negligence. I fumed.
This post was last edited by PERRY, 22 Jan 2012, 13:35
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rosefitzrobert
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Quote: SIODAI, Sunday, 22 Jan 2012 11:32A reading test failure isn't necessarily a bad thing. Although happily few and far between, there are members who only read half of what you've written then use the 'find' function on Word to search for answers to your test. Generally those who give a 100 word review with no suggestions. I've deliberately made my reading test easily passable for those who've read my work properly, but all three answers are there to each question if anyone uses the 'find' function. If someone fails my test I feel relieved not to get their review. sly!
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paulb
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Quote: rosefitzrobert, Sunday, 22 Jan 2012 11:38I know what you mean about questions that refer to what seemed to me as a reader to be forgettable details. In one of my first reviews on the site, I had a reading test that asked the name of the street the character lived on...[\quote] I've also had this question recently; may have been the same piece. Quote: I found myself wondering if people create such tests because of the tests we've been given at school, where one is asked to memorize details, but the context (theme) goes largely unaddressed. [/quoteWhen I was 13, I had the headmaster for English, who used to give us what he called Tum-ti-tum tests: we read some chapters for homework and he'd read through it in class and substitute tum-ti-tum for a word .. Mary walked into the tum-ti-tum shop.... and we would have to write down the word. I came last in this class and was moved to a lower set. There I had the best teacher of my school life who went through Lord of the Flies with us. I'll never forget his infectious enthusiasm for this book. 
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paulb
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Oh dear, I seem to have quoted myself in the above message. I hope you get the drift.
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Someone just failed my reading test
22 Jan 2012, 10:13
