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What makes LanguageCert Academic relevant for higher education?
The contexts focus on language used in an academic environment, with generic academic vocabulary and expressions relevant to most subjects.
Additional benefits to your institution
- Convenient and accessible testing supported by industry-leading security measures. Our strict security protocols, online and at test centres, throughout the examination process, ensure our tests are fair and deliver genuine results you can trust.
- Fast results verifiable through our secure verification platform to support application processing and turnaround times on student offers.
- Use of our extensive partner network to increase and diversify enrollments.
- Participation in our international scholarship programmes.
How is LanguageCert Academic mapped to the CEFR and other tests?
LanguageCert Academic is directly calibrated to the levels of the Common European Framework of Reference produced by the Council of Europe. This means that performance on LanguageCert tests is directly comparable to exams from other English language testing organisations. Extensive concordance studies with other tests are currently in progress and will be available later in 2023.
The established scoring arrangements between LanguageCert Academic and the CEFR are verified by ongoing analysis of test performance as well as by the LanguageCert Research and Validation programmes. Concordancing evidence with other tests (such as that provided with IELTS in the table), are an illustration of the equivalencies as verified both internally and externally by our external partners. Learn more.
The LanguageCert Global Scale is an easy-to-understand results system which reports scores on a 0-100 scale and links to the CEFR. It applies across all the LanguageCert tests and enables the setting of specific levels of attainment needed to fulfil certain requirements such as entrance into a university. The levels of attainment relate to overall test performance and performance by skill (e.g., speaking).
Test format and structure
LanguageCert Academic assesses 4 skills (Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking) through a Written and a Spoken component. Both the Written and Spoken components are available through the LanguageCertCert Secure Test Centre network and via Online Proctoring with enhanced security.
WrittenExam.
4 parts - 30 questions
Multiple choice/note taking
Around 40 minutes(all parts heard twice)
4 parts - 30 questions
Multiple choice/ gap filling/ multiple matching
50 minutes
2 tasks
Extended responses
50 minutes
SpokenExam.
4 parts - 30 questions
Multiple choice/note taking
Around 40 minutes(all parts heard twice)
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