Alternatives OUP Placement Test

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Sherlock
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Alternatives OUP Placement Test

Post by Sherlock » Tue Jul 06, 2004 8:06 am

Hi,
We're currently using Oxford University Press Placement Test by Dave Allan and to be honest its proving to be worse than useless. We have started conducting a Speaking interview in conjunction with the OUP test as we'd been finding a major discrpency between classroom performance and the levels assigned by the test. These discrepencies have become even more apparent with our most recent intake as we've been able to judge for ourselves students' communicative ability against their OUP test result.

We have a large intake every semester and need a standardised and easily marked test which can be used across a number of different schools within our network. We don't have the time or resources to develop our own material (particularly listening material) so i'd like to know if anyone is aware of an effective alternative?

Any ideas?

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