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Re:Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway Peo... by limeblack on Monday May 22, 2017 @06:56PM (#14397528)
How did he pass the multiple choice driver's test? You must be able to read at least some language in NC to pass it(I think it also in Spanish and something else). I took it recently so something might have changed since you were teaching.
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Re:Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway Peo... by irixusr on Monday May 22, 2017 @07:08PM (#14397584)
Go to a graduate engineering program, find the worst speaking foreigner. He has passed the toffle exam and probably outscored the Americans in the English GRE.

Then ask yourself: how?

(In case anyone's offended, I'm a foreigner with ESL)

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Re:Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway Peo... by lacampbell on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @02:52AM (#14399319)
I've known a lot of foreigners doing ESL. AFAIK it's just corrupt testers who want to pass people.
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Re:Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway Peo... by irixusr on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @04:24PM (#14404988)
I meant English is my second language
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Re:Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway Peo... by grzm on Monday May 22, 2017 @07:13PM (#14397606)
s/toffle/TOEFL/ (in case anyone's wondering)

Test of English as a Foreign Language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_of_English_as_a_Foreign_L...

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Re:Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway Peo... by protomyth on Monday May 22, 2017 @07:25PM (#14397663)
In 91 when I took my commercial license test (Passenger), the machine I used was video (well more PowerPoint / HyperCard) and had pictures of the situation and big colored buttons with the letters. It didn't take a lot of language skills.
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Re:Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway Peo... by Retra on Monday May 22, 2017 @11:38PM (#14398631)
I just took a regular license test, and it had headphones providing narration accompanying on-screen animation. Someone who can't read could certainly pass it with no trouble at all. It is probably designed that way.
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