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[sportsguy35]

Hi. I am starting a school for elementary school students. I have found all of my materials and am almost prepared to start the school. The only thing that I am lacking is the proper level tests. Everything I have found on the internet seems too dificult for these young students. Any help or info is much appreciated.

[chest rockwell]

Make your own.

[moosehead]

[Yu_Bum_suk]

The best way to make a placement test is to take the textbooks you plan to use and base questions on what the texts are supposed to teach. That will give you the best idea of what students are best suited to what text material. Of course, your academy's lessons should be based around more than textbooks, but at least it's a start. You should also start with simpler verb tenses and incresase the difficulty of tense and / or conjugation with each question.

Here are a couple of written tests I've made for older students. I'm not sure how they'd work as oral tests for younger students.


Placement Level Questionnaire I Name:____________

Please answer the following questions in full sentences (문장) if you can.

e.g.: Q: How old are you?
A: I am twenty-five years old.

1. Where are you from?
________________________________________________________
2. What is your favorite food?
________________________________________________________
3. What do you usually do on Sundays?
________________________________________________________
4. Where will you go during summer vacation?
________________________________________________________
5. Where did your family go during Seolnal (설날)?
________________________________________________________

Please circle the correct answer for the following questions.

1. What is the opposite (반대) of loud?
a. noisy b. quiet c. still d. talking e. studying

2. Which of the following words has a different vowel (모음) sound from the other four words?
a. meat b. meet c. mitt d. neat e. feet

3. Joe goes to the park five or six evenings a week.
Joe� a. rarely b. sometimes c. almost d. usually e. always ...goes to the park in the evening.

4. If today is Wednesday, yesterday was:
a. Sunday b. Monday c. Tuesday d. Wednesday e. Friday

5. Complete: Right now, at this moment, Jane __________________ ice cream.
a. is eating b. are eating c. was eating d. will have eating e. had eaten
In the following sentences, circle the mistakes (실수):

1. Nancy is older than christine is.
2. John and Mike is going to Australia next week.
3. Last week my family will eat at Lotteria.
4. Apples and banannas are fruit.
5. After school I am go to the library.

Draw a line between each pair of words that has a similar meaning (동의어).

cup big
angry glad
happy jacket
foolish glass
coat upset
nice stupid
large fast
theater cinema
quickly pleasant
great excellent


Describe yourself: _________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________




Placement Level Questionnaire II Name:____________

Please answer the following questions in full sentences (문장) if you can.

1. What do you do?
________________________________________________________________
2. How many members are in your family?
________________________________________________________________
3. What did you eat for lunch today?
________________________________________________________________
4. Where will you go tomorrow?
________________________________________________________________
5. How many times have you been to Seoul?
________________________________________________________________
6. What are you studying these days?
________________________________________________________________
7. What were you doing this morning?
________________________________________________________________
8. Where does your mother live?
________________________________________________________________
9. What sport do Park Jisung and Lee Youngpyo play?
________________________________________________________________
10. What are two countries that use miles and pounds?
________________________________________________________________

Please circle the correct answer for the following questions.

1. Which of the following words has a different vowel (모음) sound from the other four words?
a. meet b. tree c. easy d. great e. leave

2. Which of the following words has a different consonant (자음) sound from the other four words (an �s� sound instead of a �z� sound)?
a. rings b. slide c. easy d. zipper e. his


3. The day after tomorrow is:
a. Sunday b. Monday c. Tuesday d. Wednesday e. Friday

4. In the sentence �I don�t have anything here at all!� which word is a verb (동사)?
a. I b. do c. anything d. here e. all

5. In the sentence �She�s coming as quickly as she can� which word is an adverb (부사)?
a. She b. coming c. quickly d. as e. can


In the following sentences, circle the mistakes (실수):

1. He do not know the answer.
2. Its been a long time since I saw you.
3. I am very expecting the new Harry Potter movie.
4. After school, I am go to my home.
5. Most of Koreans like kimchi and rice with dinner.


Draw a line between each pair of words that has a similar meaning (동의어).

look difficult
automobile annoying
teacher instructor
rely view
hard depend
strange ordinary
argue occupation
obnoxious car
usual weird
job bicker


Give a brief description of your home: ___________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________

[Tobias]

What those other guys said. If you can't make up tests for these kids, use the examples given and let us know which cert program you attended, assuming you did a program.

Testing is much more difficult that it seems, at least if one is to produce valid tests. My cert program sluffed over this part of the course. I had to improvise later, meaning when I first started out, my students were guinea pigs. Not good.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[Netz]

And whatever you do, don't come and post on this forum asking for help, it upsets the "qualified" teachers

[sportsguy35]

thanks for the constructive input. We are going to go with the PELT English Level Tests system. It seems very thorough and in the one hour that we have with each kid should be able to get the job done.


Moosehead, thanks for your concern but we've already hired the teachers that we need. Now go back to being smarter than everyone...