Hello native speakers, will you call this exam a hard test as a ninth grade student?

21 could be A or B, 22 could be C or D 24 could be A or D 25 could be C or D ...at this point, I've decided it's yet another erroneous ESL training product, and can't be bothered looking at it further. I can't evaluate it as being easy or hard, because it's simply wrong. We get this bullshit every day, on this forum. It's bad teaching. Find better material.

not gonna lie, as a native speaker this is kind of difficult 😭

Honestly, no. This wouldn’t have been difficult for me since 3rd or 4th grade, maybe not even then. But it’s very very different when it’s your native language, and how you’ve learned to perceive and process the world. 

You tell me what ninth grade is, and I’ll see if I can give you an answer

Several of those have multiple correct answers.

As a non-native speaker (at least in my country), this would have been a reasonable test for a 9th grade student. Though I don't think this is a good test either. Many questions on here have two right answers for some reason? Like 22 could be C or D etc

British "person" here, yeah half of these are bs. As one other person said, they rely on context we don't have

Hard, in that it’s full of poorly worded questions that, based off of the context given, have multiple correct answers.

I'm stupid thinking the options above were the alternatives. But number 20 doesn't look grammatically correct so it even looks like the teachers English isn't good, but aside from that I think this is very basic stuff that you learn early in school so as a 9th grade test it's pretty basic. We had to write essays in the 9th grade. Aside from the questions with multiple correct options

Reasonable for a 9th grader, assuming English is not the first language of the test takers. This is about B1, which is expected of a 9th grader

Ignoring the lack of context for some to give the correct answer, and some ambiguous ones which makes it less than perfect - I'd say the general level and format of this test is very similar to ones my child has done this year and was practising last year in school. That would be the equivalent of Grade 4 or 5 (Year 5 or 6, ages 9 or 10). The recent tests taken for entry to her secondary school in Year 7 effectively the 11+/CE exams (equivalent to being in grade 6) were similar if not harder. My younger child is in Year 4 (age 8) just gave the same answers I would for this test with no trouble - so I'd say it is not that hard for a native speaker.

Not really. Seems pretty straightforward.

The little charts drawn on the side don’t really add anything I fear

It's not super-hard. 20 is missing a word, but there is only one correct answer, and you got it. The second sentence is in the past tense, so the first sentence must be as well. It would be structured differently if the other answers were correct. * ... 'is changing' would indicate that the change is not done yet, so you'd have to point to something that would show that in the second sentence, for example, 'This place is changing a lot. They're even planning on building a new school.' * ... 'is changed' is incorrect entirely as you shouldn't pair a present tense verb and a past tense adjective. There is an exception to this, but at this level you probably don't want to know yet. * ... 'must change' is more of an assumption in this context. But again, there would be an example listed, as it would imply the change isn't done yet since change is present tense. 25 you got right. What Alice originally said was probably 'My mother *has been* sick since Easter." But that's not a quote from Alice. And since Alice *said* it, and isn't *currently saying* it, then the correct answer is D. Your teacher should know this if she's teaching you. 26 is technically right, but at least in the US, 90% of the time, you'd just say 'I *had* a meeting'.

no. 6th graders during my time were already doing exams like this

Native speaker - 25 is written wrong because “Last time when I met Alice” isn’t really proper. It would be something like “The last time that I met with Alice” or “When I met with Alice last”

I knew all these answers easily, but I’m 35. However, I think I could have easily answered these in 9th grade as well.

我是中国人，幸好我早已平安度过了我的初三

This is absolutely terrible. There are questions here with not one, not two but \*three\* possible good answers. It's garbage.

I don't understand the people here saying this is a bad test. Do they not understand the concept of "choose the best answer"? Are they not familiar with EFL content and the way it focuses not on every possible way to be grammatical but rather on the clearest and most easily understood way to say things? Have they not seen the *actual* bad tests that are commonly posted here? I have one or two quibbles with the wording of the questions, but this test is fine overall. The only questions I would consider accepting multiple answers for are the one with the plane and the one with the fish, where there's not really enough information to decide between the past tense options.

How old is 9th grade? It looks pretty simple for a native speaker kid. 

In the first 4 questions I already spotted a spelling error. Multiple of these have more than one correct answer. This wouldn't pass for a 6th grade English class in a native speaking country. The content in it is probably around that level if I'm being generous though.i Haven't been in school in over 10 years, so it's tough to say an exact level, but I know it isn't high school.

Eh at a first glance it is mostly alright but one thing I am a bit confused about is the number 22 because it has have two right answers both Letter C and D

I think it’s a medium level test if you live in other countries that don’t use English as the first language, and is bs in native speakers’ country. have/had + pp is a present perfect tense that is learnt in grade 9

(As a non native speaker) Tricky questions but not impossible. I don't necessarily disagree with the exam, I think it's fair.

Because there's no context to go along with the questions, many of them have multiple "correct" answers that I bet the "teacher" would disagree with.

There would be no point giving native speakers this test. We would all just go by “what sounds right” and it wouldn’t actually test any knowledge.

The topics are appropriate but the questions are poorly written.

Btw your title should say “would you call” not “will you call”

I will tell you that I would've gotten #26 wrong. "I *had* a meeting with my boss" sounds natural to me there. I can see why the "answer" is B but that's very ambiguous

21 could be either A or B 25 I would never say “last time when I met…” I’d just say “last time I saw…” 27 is incredibly awkward 34 I don’t really understand

It’s quite intuitive for a native speaker adult who thinks about grammar. A few of the questions are very awkward. A couple could have more than one correct answer, but mostly there is only one correct answer. For a 9th grader, I suppose it depends how long you’ve been studying English. I do think there are native speaking 9th graders that would not get all right I think it’s interesting how you use a time arrow to help you decide. I haven’t seen that technique! 21 could be A or B 25 is very awkwardly worded. I would not ever say “last time when I met…” I’d say “ last time I saw…” 34 I don’t understand at all

This test looks like it was written by an English speaking, non-native English speaking person. It's like that YouTube video of that teacher trying to teach her students how to say 'coke' and it sounds like 'cock'.

Besides the literal failures of this exam other's have described, I would generally say that no, this should not be difficult for the average high school freshman in the United States. (I would hope.)

Several people have pointed out that a lot of these have multiple correct answers, but I'd just like to point out that while a bunch of these are grammatically correct, they sound unnatural and aren't how native speakers actually talk.

if this test made sense i would say it’s more middle school/elementary level, but as it is it’s difficult for anybody cuz it’s poorly made

Many of the ones you got wrong had multiple correct answers, but the meaning would have changed depending on which answer you chose. For example, “Kevin Welison had made one million dollars by the time he was 35” means Kevin Welison had gotten a total of one million dollars from whatever jobs he had when he was 35. “Kevin Welison was making one million dollars by the time he was 35” means that he was making one million dollars each time he was paid (I would assume annually but technically not specified) when he was 35. Both are correct but they mean different things.

Your teacher sucks at english.

Hard? My brain filled in the answers without looking at the multiple choice answers. Unfortunately my dyslexia illuminated all the spelling errors on the test. As a dyslexic I had to memorize patterns in English to be able to read.

This test is filled with so many basic errors that attempting to actually use it as a test for students may actively make them worse at English

These tense/aspects are very commonly misused by native English speakers, but I disagree that they have multiple correct answers. For example: "Mrs. Smith _likes_ the movie. She has seen it three times." Many people are saying "liked" is fine here. Liked is not correct. You would be shifting tenses from past tense to present tense. Liked ---> has. However, in recent use, statives about attitudes or beliefs are often expressed in past tense because people don't want to make an express inference as to someone's current state. Maybe Mrs. Smith no longer likes the movie. You wouldn't want to speak for her. To avoid that, people could say: "I know at one point, Mrs. Smith liked the movie. She has seen it three times." "Mrs. Smith liked the movie. She had seen it three times." Both sound a bit clunky because anchoring the time of the inference makes it about the speaker. People want to use the present perfect tense-aspect and they want to avoid speaking for Mrs. Smith's current state. So a lot of native English speakers land on: "Mrs. Smith liked the movie. She has seen it three times." It's changing tenses, but it's understood, it's common, and not as jarring as something like: "Peter is hungry. So he ate food." This test might be easier for non-native speakers and for people who just reviewed the correct grammar. I am pretty confident in my English and I missed one, so it isn't an easy test. But the native speakers confidently getting 10 or 20 incorrect and saying the test is wrong are themselves wrong. The test is correct, it's just a tough test.

9th grade in what context? For a native speaker, this type of test would be easy once the errors in the test itself have been corrected. For someone learning English, it depends on their language level. This type of test is something I would have seen in high school ESL classes for intermediate students. (again, once the errors of the test have been corrected )

I feel like I would’ve gotten a lot of these wrong, but most of the possible answers are completely correct too, so it sounds like the creator of the test is not a native themselves. That, and they seem to be trying to teach a rule that they made up, the made-up rule being that we repeat the verb already given, which is false as proven by the grammatical correctness of the answers.

For a native speaker, this is much too easy for ninth grade.

Some questions have multiple correct answers. That's not how one makes MCQ🤦

Apart from the mistakes, this would be on CEFR-B2 level

This would be a test of whether you are awake or asleep for a native

In addition to everything else that has been mentioned by others. The document is formatted as if the person who created just learned about word processors yesterday and hasn’t found the tab key yet.

The little timelines you did are really cool

I have absolutely no idea. What's the native tongue(s)? How long have the students been learning the language?

It's a pretty good test with few errors, contrary to what quite a few others here seem to think.

There are a lot of these questions that have multiple answers

It’s a pretty easy test. I wouldn’t say it’s 9th grade level, more maybe 4th or 5th grade. Native speakers should know their tenses by the time they get to junior high school.

this is not whaT we would be studying or bE testEd on though at grade nine. we would read a book then make a presentation or write a report about the values the writer wanted to convey. the writing styles and maYbe character developmEnt as well. in australia at least this is gradE 9 stuff. to answer your questiOn, most would probably pass, but this Isn't how we would learn English. no one knows grammar rules except maybe past present future, so A forEigner would know grammar more and spot an error.

as a native speaker, it's pretty straightforward, however i think for number 22, D works as well. i could have made a million dollars, but be could also be making a million dollars (if a million dollars were his annual income).

For 22 I could see the argument be made that literally all four are correct. The tense being used is really not obvious

As a test for a native speaker at a 9th grade level, I don't think it's particularly difficult. Some of the questions have multiple answers that *could* be correct, but one of them is always "the best answer."