How long is a university class?

[Rachel Adams]

Hello. Could you please have a look at the screenshot and tell me what the fifth question is asking about?



The question is 'how long is a university class?' But what do they mean?

 

[Tdol]

I honestly don't know.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

It's poorly phrased, but I take it to mean, "How long does a university class last?"

And that's not clear enough, either. My answer would be, "Fifty minutes or more, depending on how often it meets each week."

But it might mean, "How many weeks does a university class last?"

Either way, there's no right answer. So the most precise way to answer it is to take out a ruler and measure the length of the words "a university class." Then you'll know exactly how long "a university class" is.

 

[Rachel Adams]

Is there nothing in the text preceding these questions that might give you a clue?

No, the book doesn't have any texts.

 

[tzfujimino]

They look like reading comprehension quizzes to me.
:-?

 

[emsr2d2]

It appears that the questions are all asking for a one- or two-word answer, using the words on the right. If that's right, the only possible answers are "six terms" and "ninety terms" as those are the only ways of answering a question that starts with "How long" and needs to end with a plural noun.

 

[kilroy65]

I think the only possible answer to that awful question is "ninety minutes". When I studied English at university (admittedly, that was more than 30 years ago), the lectures were 90 minutes long.

 

[emsr2d2]

I think the only possible answer to that awful question is "ninety minutes". When I studied English at university (admittedly, that was more than 30 years ago), the lectures were 90 minutes long.

If that's the case, they failed to put "minutes" in the list of words on the right. All the other questions can be answered using those words.