New Students Placement Testing
At the beginning of every semester ILTC conducts placement tests that enable new students to enroll in groups according to the level of their language competence.
Before you start attending the lessons of the language you’ve chosen, we have to determine with certainty how well you can already use the language. To know how good your command of the language is you have to take a written and oral test. At ILTC you can do it free of charge.
You will receive your test results immediately after taking the written test. Then you will take the oral test. After taking both written and oral tests the level of your language will be clearly determined, which will let you choose the appropriate group and start attending the lessons.
Student’s Successful Performance Evaluation Criteria
At the end of every level, students are expected to take final written and oral tests, the results of which condition whether a student has passed the level or not. A student who fails the examination may take an appeal test with the Director of Studies. If the appeal test result is positive, the student can register for the next level (though a practice level can’t be skipped). If the appeal test result is negative, the student can register for the same level one more time or miss a semester and take a test at the New Students’ testing.
Who Is Entitled to Skip a Practice Level?
- Students who have successfully done all the assignments (homework, class-work, presentations, essays etc.), and can communicate freely, using all previously studied material, as well as new lexical items and grammar structures
- have the ability to self-correct
- show excellent progress at oral and written tests (more than 90-95%)
Who Is Obliged to Take a Practice Level?
Students who:
- have demonstrated progress in studies
- speak accurately but not fluently or vice versa
- don’t use all new vocabulary and grammar structures
- can’t correct their mistakes by themselves
- show modest results at oral and written tests (between 75-90%)
Who Is Considered to Have Failed a Level?
Students who:
- don’t actively participate during the whole semester
- don’t speak accurately and fluently
- have more than six absences before oral and written tests
- show poor results at tests
- don’t attend lessons
