Fifth Posting (Assignment Number 5)

Electronic Malaysian English Competency Test - Reading Test (Set 1)
Score: 24 out of 35 - 69%
Time Taken: 39m 51s

Online Quiz Results
Results Summary

Online Quiz Results :: Kemahiran Asas ICT
Your Score : 19/30

Online Quiz Results Summary

Your #Attempts: 1
Total Class #Attempts: 566
Your Quiz Score: 19/30
Your Highest Score Ever: 19
Note: This may not be your final marks. Due to some of the subjective and semi-objective As you all can see, abquestions (short essay and fill in the blank).

As you all can see, above is my results on the Electronic Malaysian English Competency Test - Reading (EMECT) and Ujian Kendiri ICT test. I took the test together wih the rest of my coursemates on Monday, 31st Mac 2008 during our tutorial session.

This was my first experience taking online test. At first I was very nervous but at the same time very curious to know how these online tests will looks like. Overall I must admit that it was quite difficult and challenging as I had no experience at all in taking online test before. The major problem was the time consuming. I found that the time given was not sufficient enough. Perhaps they should provide more time so that I can really concentrate and understand the passages given even better. Besides that, I can’t actually highlight the important points or the keywords of the particular sentences when doing this online test. When this happen, I had to keep on opening the questions tab, read back everything from the beginning then switch back to the answer tab. Apart from that, it is a bit risky taking online test because when I accidently click the ‘X’ button of the questions page, the whole thing vanished then I had to restart everything and do it all over again.

That was the disadvantages of EMECT online test. Now I will explain on the weakness of Ujian Kendiri ICT Test. First of all, I could not perform well in this test as it was done in Bahasa Malaysia, (Malay). Even though I used Malay in almost of my daily conversations, I still find it hard to understand because before this I had been exposed to the English term of all the computers literacy then suddenly when it was tested in Malay, I get that ‘culture shock’ kind of feelings as I’m not used to it. They can still test us in Malay but at least provide some English glossary in it so that it is easier for me to understand.

That was some of the weaknesses and disadvantages of taking online test. However, I must admit that online test do have its own advantages. For example, I can get immediate feedback straight after I had completed my test. Besides that, they did not only provide the results, but also the time taken in completing the test. This is a good thing because I do not have to wait for quite sometimes in order to know my results. Moreover, online test are useful in providing and marking objectives kinds of question. It is guaranteed that they will not make mistake in correcting this kinds of questions.

In conclusion, online test has its own advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, in order to make online test as one of the useful and beneficial means, the particular people who are in charged in making this a reality have to always improvised and standardized these online test so that it will have zero disadvantages:)