Reading  Skills

Level

Your Performance

Reading

High(22-30)

Test takers who receive a score at the HIGH level, as you did, typically understand academic texts in English that require a wide range of reading abilities regardless of the difficulty of the texts.

Test takers who score at the HIGH level, typically

• have a very good command of academic vocabulary and grammatical structure;
• can understand and connect information, make appropriate inferences, and synthesize ideas, even when the text is conceptually dense and the language is complex;
• can recognize the expository organization of a text and the role that specific information serves within the larger text, even when the text is conceptually dense; and
• can abstract major ideas from a text, even when the text is conceptually dense and contains complex language.

Listening  Skills

Level

Your Performance

Listening

High(22-30)

Test takers who receive a score at the HIGH level, as you did, typically understand conversations and lectures in English that present a wide range of listening demands. These demands can include difficult vocabulary (uncommon terms, or colloquial or figurative language), complex grammatical structures, abstract or complex ideas, and/or making sense of unexpected or seemingly contradictory information.

When listening to lectures and conversations like these, test takers at the HIGH level typically can

• understand main ideas and important details, whether they are stated or implied;
• distinguish more important ideas from less important ones;
• understand how information is being used (for example, to provide evidence for a claim or describe a step in a complex process);
• recognize how pieces of information are connected (for example, in a cause-and-effect relationship);
• understand many different ways that speakers use language for purposes other than to give information (for example, to emphasize a point, express agreement or disagreement, or convey intentions indirectly); and
• synthesize information, even when it is not presented in sequence, and make correct inferences on the basis of that information.

Speaking  Skills

Level

Your Performance

Speaking about familiar topics

Good(3.5 - 4.0)

Your responses indicate an ability to communicate your personal experiences and opinions effectively in English. Overall, your speech is clear and fluent. Your use of vocabulary and grammar is effective with only minor errors. Your ideas are generally well developed and expressed coherently.

Speaking about campus situations

Good(3.5 - 4.0)

Your responses indicate an ability to speak effectively in English about reading material and conversations typically encountered by university students. Overall, your responses are clear and coherent, with only occasional errors of pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary.

Speaking about academic course content

Fair(2.5 - 3.0)

Your responses demonstrate that you are able to speak in English about academic reading and lecture material, with only minor communication problems. For the most part, your speech is clear and easy to understand. However, some problems with pronunciation and intonation may occasionally cause difficulty for the listener. Your use of grammar and vocabulary is adequate to talk about the topics, but some ideas are not fully developed or are inaccurate.

Writing  Skills

Level

Your Performance

Writing based on reading and listening

Fair(2.5 - 3.5)

You responded to the task, relating the lecture to the reading, but your response indicates weaknesses such as

• an important idea or ideas may be missing, unclear, or inaccurate;
• there may be unclarity in how the lecture and the reading passage are related; and/or
• grammatical mistakes or vague/incorrect uses of words may make the writing difficult to understand.

Writing based on knowledge and experience

Good(4.0 - 5.0)

You responded with a well-organized and developed essay. Weaknesses, if you have any, might have to do with

• use of English that is occasionally ungrammatical, unclear, or unidiomatic and/or
• elaboration of ideas or connection of ideas that could have been stronger.