ETS certificates

 ETS certificates

ETS is specialized in educational research and creating assessment systems based on the experience and knowledge in psychometry statistics.

In 2012 School of Foreign Languages became the Accredited  ETS Examinational Centre.

We offer the possibility of passing TTOEIC, TOEFL, TFI, WiDaF exams on premises of our school.

TOEIC

For 30 years TOEIC tests have set standards of assessment of linguistic competences in a work environment. Today the results form TOEIC are accepted by over 10000 companies, government agencies and curriculums of English teaching in over 120 countries all over the world.

TOEIC tests:

• help companies to create more effective workplace,
• give an advantage to  people looking for a job and employed people,
• enables universities to prepare students to start their journey on the international job market better.

The most important TOEIC certificate’s characteristics:

• used by over 10 000 international organizations,
  
• passed by over 6 million candidates a year,
• organized on demands of any number of people in a group,
  
• does not require the declaration of a level before taking the test,
  
• precise and motivating assessment scale 10-990 points.

The TOEIC certificates’ family

TOEIC Speaking and Writing
Describes the level in speaking and writing skills from Beginner (A1 according to levels of the Council of Europe) to Advanced (C1 according to levels of the Council of Europe). It is a computer test.

The TOEIC Bridge test:
Describes the level in listening and reading skills, from Beginner (A1 according to levels of the Council of Europe) to Intermediate (B1 according to the Council of Europe). It is a paper multiple choice test. 

TOEFL

The family of TOEFL products are the exams created in order to enable institutions to test a higher number of students at different levels. Used for various purposes TOEFL tests (admission to the studies, the assessment of level and final tests) provides with the information necessary to make important decisions. 

TOEFL tests:

• reliably indicate level of English,
  
• are based on over 40-year world-class research.
  
• use the most objective assessment methods,
  
• use the highest standards of psychometry.

The TOEFL certificates’ family

TOEFL iBT certificate
Identifies the level of English in an academic context. The exam is in a computer form with the use of the Internet and tastes all four language skills – reading, listening, speking and writing from Intermediate level (B1 according to the Council of Europe) to Advanced (C1 according to the Council of Europe)
TOEFL iBT is also the most widely accepted English language test when applying for the admission to an English language studies all over the world. 

The TOEFL ITP test

Identifies the level of listening and reading skills in English in academic context from Elemtary level (A2 according to the Council of Europe) to Advanced level (C1 according to the Council of Europe). It is a paper multiple choice test.

The TOEFL Junior

Identifies the level of listening and reading skills among teenagers at the age of 11-15. It is a paper multiple choice test verifying the abilities in reading, listening and understanding of texts. It measures the knowledge of English from Elementary level (A2 according to the Council of Europe) to Upper-Intermediate (2 according to the Council of Europe). The TOEFL Junior Comprehensive certificate (coming soon) will be a computer exam testing all four language skills – reading, listening, speaking and writing.

TFI
TFI (Test de français international™) is a certificate exam of French language knowledge for people whose French is not a mother tongue. The exam checks and proves the knowledge of French in work environment and life of adults, from Beginner to Advanced level – regardless of the profession or education.

Who uses TFI certificate?

Students and working people: putting TFI results in the CV officially emphasize their own competences and make them unique on the labor market

Academic institutions: they use TFI as the equivalent of passing the lectureship’s exams, pass the lectureship or treat it as a condition of graduation of the university and obtaining a diploma.

Language schools: support itself with TFI exam in the case of dividing students into groups according to the level; in an external and objective way demonstrate the students their progress and the validity of their choice connected with the learning place.

Companies and corporations:  use TFI in a recruitment and selection of employees; based on the results in TFI exam they make decisions about trainings management (language audit), standardize the assessment system in all organization’s branches regardless their localization in the world.

The Civil Service and other organizations use TFI to indentify the competences needed for promotion or the participation in trainings conducted in a foreign language.

WiDaF

WiDaF exam (Deutsch als Fremdsprache in der Wirtschaft) is an exam is intended for testing the knowledge of German in business, in a work environment. WiDaD is used by companies as a tool for measuring the effectivness of trainings, certification and a selection of employees.

The exam was created in 1996 by German-French Chamber of Trade.

WiDaF is the test of choice consisting of 150 testing questions. The exam consists of two sections and lasts about 3 hours. It is assessed according to the scale from 0 to 990 points and is divided into 3 separate scoring systems (0-330 points x 3) for each exam’s element: vocabulary, reading, listening.