Crime and law vocabulary 🇬🇧 🕵️♀️
English
Intermediate
How good is your knowledge of English vocabulary related to law and crime? Do you know what arson is? The difference between hijacking and kidnapping? 👉Brush up on your English and learn more about Britain on https://t.me/Lingalo_English
Description
Tags
30
Questions
30 sec
Per question
1:56
Average time
Disqualified
Contest Score
3.0
Community Rating
8
Participants
- originality: looks very original to me
- no violation of intellectual property rights: looks ok as well
- educational: definitely
- 30 questions at minimum: yup
- explanations for each: I'll come to that later
So (as of now), every criteria is fullfilled.
There was an other aspect: quality.
Now, this is rather subjective. This is what the judges are for. I definitely agree that an ad decreases quality and a comparable quiz (content wise) without an ad should be regarded as better.
I am very sorry, as I liked the quiz, it is of a rather good quality in my opinion, but you are missing explanations.
If all of the explanations were like this one:
'It's 'trespassing'. Bypassing: going past or round; mugging: attacking and robbing; forgery: producing a fraudulent copy'
I'd have rated this quiz five or four stars. I didn't. Why?
Now, dear Wise Owl, I pray you to consider altering your reason for disqualification:
'Missing explanations. Explanations were only repeating correct answers. E.g. 'suspect' (and about ten others if I remember correctly)
The rules given were very clear every question had to include an explanation. Just repeating the correct answer really isn't.
(And a lot of other quizzes have been disqualified for that exact reason.) It also dramatically decreases quality.
But apart from that, you did a good job. :)
For the next time: No ads ( ;-) ), and explanations! Then I really think your quizzes could be winner candidates.
I am very pleased.
Unfortunately, this test will not be able to receive a prize:
Too many missing explanations. More than 10 explanations simply repeat the correct answer. E.g. #q3, #q5, #q6, #q7, #q9, #q10, #q11, #q12, #q14, #q15, #q19, #q20, etc.
2. Most explanations do not provide any extra information about the correct answer. They simply state the correct answer, hence reducing the educational value.
Re 1. It may have been Britannica, I should have provided a reference if so! "Offense" is "offence" in mine though, all British spelling. I believe you will find such legal definitions are often almost the same in many sources. The quiz is all mine and created from scratch, I hope that at least is clear. It's a vocabulary quiz, not one about law, I am not a lawyer, and I suppose I didn't want to mess up legal definitions. I admit that in the course of creating the content for this test, I was often surprised by some finer details and differences I had not been aware of. For example, I chose to remove some questions that I had included in earlier versions because research showed that in Scotland some phrases would not work - or I unintentionally used an americanism which is no longer in use in Britain, etc. (US crime series influence, I guess).
Re 2. I take your criticism on board, of course. As I clarified in an earlier comment, sometimes explanations felt superfluous to me, as often the questions themselves contained an explanation or a definition - or the image used was clear enough. For example, if you see a gavel and you are to choose between gavel, hammer... etc., I don't think you'd expect a definition of a hammer to disambiguate? There wasn't much space for all words to be defined - or images to be added. But I take your point and accept that this may be perceived as reducing educational value.