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Incident Report: Brainbench

Brainbench.com is a premier firm in online testing and certification, performing evaluations of employees and of job applicants.

One of the many services Brainbench offers is a "Question of the Week" in numerous technical and non-technical categories. While not a serious gaff, I found the following error ironic. In the category of "English Language", they had one more error than they had planned, by neglecting to complete the last sentence!

Subject Area: Written English
Paragraph:
	a) Mary is still in the hospital recovering
	b) from the operation. Although she still
	c) feels sick, the doctor has indicated
	d) that she is doing very well. In fact, he
	e) hopes to allow her to go home on Friday if
	f) she is feeling more
Question: Which line in the paragraph above contains the error?

• The line with the unplanned error (line f above) also had their planned error, so the very question became a moot point.
• One would think that a testing company could check their own test at least in the topic of the test (namely proper English in this case) especially when said test consists of just a single question. I would be less critical of, say, an English error in a question about HTML, for example.

(This grade applies just to the Question of the Week section.) A great marketing tool for the company; a handy reminder tool for users. I probably would not have included this gaff here but for the fact that they had a similar error in the English Q-o-t-W for two weeks in a row.

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