When you buy a car you don´t ask which is the easiest car to drive , so why do you want to pass the easiest English exam? Or when you buy a smartphone you don´t ask for the easiest one to use on the market. Why this insistence on the easiest exam? Are students afraid of failing? Like everything else it depends what you want it for. If you want a recognised, prestigious qualification solicited by companies go for Cambridge, until now one of the most reputable. If you want an easy exam go for Linguaskill or similar, which is a multilevel exam. What does that mean? It means that no one fails Linguaskill because the difficulty of the questions changes according to your answers. If you get the answer wrong the next question will be easier. If you get it right the questions will become more difficult. In the end no one fails and everybody is happy. Gone are the days when there was no gain without pain. Effort and hard work or hard graft are not everyone´s cup of tea lately.
I don´t think I have ever taken the easy way out ever. Now, battling with social media at my age, when I could so easily just throw in the towel and live the good life – but that wouldn´t be me! Maybe the idea of delayed gratification is just too ingrained. I wonder how many young ones would keep the sweetie and savour it later on today? Instant gratification, instant coffee, instant food, instant English……… No well not quite!. Just as we know that popping something in the microwave and serving it on a plate 2 minutes later is not exactly the best of feeding – it is fattening , downright unhealthy, life-shortening and illness inducing, yet that doesn´t stop stressed out millennials lapping it up and putting on the beef.
Tine has become the most precious commodity in our modern world. For sure, when God made time , he made plenty of it, yet it is in ever short supply.
The answer to the question is Linguaskill or Oxford easier is : why go for Linguaskill when you can prepare Cambridge in just 50 hours teaching time? Just 20 hours more than the preparation required for other «easier» exams.