help with irregular verbs!!!
hi guys! hope that you can help! i am interviewing with different companies for jobs and just now 1 company asked me to take an english test because english is not my primary language. i got 4 out of 60, so i didnt do too good on the test, but i hope that they give me a chance anyways. it was a realy hard test, and i think some people whos language is first english even got like 20s or 30s on the test. i think that my other qualities exclude of this test score are all really good, and i am a really nice person.
anyways, i hope that you can provide some useful suggestions in case that i need to take similar tests in the future. my primary problem is with irregular verbs and the preterite form... like this: kick to kicked, but go to went and run to ran. some other words that sometimes confuse me is see, know, hear, and some others. can you please provide some useful tips and ways to remember how to do these kinds of verbs???? thanks!!!
I say, give up.
Dude you're trying too hard/ getting old.
i'm not going to give up because it was a really dumb test... i took the lsat and got a 161 which is over 80% even tho english is my secondary language... so like really about 99% for secondary english writers... and is better marker of my real intelligence than the dumb company test. the test that they gived me was so dumb and didnt test for intelligence at all. i have a high gpa too... not too high but i am top 5-10% in my uni... and go to good a good uni so maybe i'll just go to a good law school and then theyll be really sorry for not taking me.......... the more i think about this the madder that i get, becoz its so unfair and is like discrimination which is illegal in the united states. fuck them, i will just go to the best law school and then theyll be sorry.
The world has changed. And we must change with it.
Most people on this forum have english as a first language so they really didn't learn it. They were surrounded by it and it just happened. I guess just talk with your American buddies and get their thoughts.
Why don't you hire an English tutor?
And it's not discrimination by any means. If they are a U.S. firm and conduct the majority of their business here, it is a smart move on their part to ensure all their employees understand English. If they have employees sending out e-mails that look like a 5th grader wrote them, it reflects poorly on the company.
Not saying that your English is that bad, just making my point.
LOL. London is just an ass, but I'd want to say the same. Study SAT Writing for a good 2 months. And you'll do fine.
I know kids who can't even speak English score 800 on the SAT writing.
your typing in english is fine, and about being a lawyer, enlish would be even more important than in banking.
i study english for over 2 years now and i still study english too almost 5 hours every week..... but this test was so stupid and it didnt even test anything useful!!!!!! they just make u write sentences to express the meaning and then even after u write the sentence, u have to choose like a,b,c,d,e... but there was like 10 choices for every question and some more than 1 correct choice...... so dumb!!!!! and.... worst of all???? this company isnt even a big famous investment banking... its just small unknown crap company and they think that they are so great LOL
i maybe wont be a lawyer becoz ppl on the mesage board tell me that its a very boring job, but i think if i go to a good law school then the company will be really jealous and theyll be mad and regret for not taking me!
fuck this company!!!!!!!!!!
you need some maturity, not English.
Dude are you serious? 2/60?
And a 161/180 is over 80%, but I don't think that's the percentile you are in. That is just an average score, if you were 170+, you might break into the 80th percentile. So you're wrong there.
Get an English tutor, Rosetta Stone?
He is not serious at all. Read some of his prior posts. While occasionally entertaining, serious he is not.
WAIT... citi let you go?
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