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@Quenby@cutie.city if it helps, my son (native English speaker) regularly loses points on multiple choice English text comprehension exercises​ in Italian school because the answers to the questions don't make sense or become ambiguous if you actually have a full understanding of the text - but are straight forward if you only know the English the syllabus expects you to know so far. Multiple choice questions are a great way of testing if you know a syllabus, and a terrible way of testing understanding.

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[@Quenby@cutie.city](https://cutie.city/users/Quenby) if it helps, my son (native English speaker) regularly loses points on multiple choice English text comprehension exercises​ in Italian school because the answers to the questions don't make sense or become ambiguous if you actually have a full understanding of the text - but are straight forward if you only know the English the syllabus expects you to know so far. Multiple choice questions are a great way of testing if you know a syllabus, and a terrible way of testing understanding.