You should include the ranking of the next 5-10 people above me into my dashboard because if it only takes 1 or 2 quizzes to jump above those people, I would do it :-) And of course, I would want to jump above the next 5-10 people again.
Things have been heating up around here at Kwiziq thanks to our new French Test Leaderboard.
We had a suspicion that adding a competitive element to our tests would get people motivated to test their way to perfect French and we weren’t wrong. Between them, our top testers have taken more than 500 of our personalised French quizzes in the last three weeks in a bid to get onto the March 2014 list of Top Ten Testers.
We’ve deliberately made this a leaderboard of how many tests were taken and not the highest scores, because the point of taking our tests isn’t just getting the answers right every time, but finding out where you make mistakes in French so you can correct yourself and learn.
Low-stakes testing (or quizzing) has been scientifically proven to be one of the most effective learning strategies, with amazing positive impact on recall – sometimes as much as 300% better!
So, if you really want to learn French fast, get your quiz hat on and start testing your French!
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[Follow on Twitter: @gruffdavies] Despite the very Welsh name, Gruff is actually half French. Nowadays, he's a tech entrepreneur (and some-time novelist) but he used to be a physicist at Imperial College before getting hooked on inventing things. He has a special interest in language learning, speaks five languages to varying degrees of fluency and he often blogs about language learning, science, and technology. As well as co-founding Kwiziq, he is the author the Amazon best-selling SF thriller, The Looking Glass Club and the inventor of the Exertris gaming exercise-bike and Pidgin, a free online tool that makes drawing flow charts and relationship diagrams as quick and easy as describing them in pidgin English.
