Apr 10
FreeRice: Stopping World Hunger AND Free GRE Prep
FreeRice is a non-profit website that will donate 20 grains for each vocabulary question answered correctly. From their about page:
FreeRice has two goals:
- Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
- Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
When you enter the site, you are presented with a fairly difficult vocabulary question, with a multiple choice answer. For each one you get right, 20 grains are donated. You can keep answering questions for as long as you like. The questions seem to get harder based on your “vocabulary level.” The donations are funded by a small advertising banner on the bottom of the page.
This seems like a really good test prep for anyone taking a standardized test this spring, especially the GRE. And, you’re doing a good deed at the same time– what could be better? I first came across the page from a blog article from SpreadFirefox. In February, Firefox broke the 500 million download mark. To celebrate, they made it their goal to donate 500,000,000 grains of rice through this website. Cool stuff.
