Qs Foundation offers five proficiency exams in the field of law, management and aptitude
institution Education First Design an exam similar to TOEFL and IELTS
On the occasion of the New Year 2019, the Swedish Education First Foundation invited students, through its Twitter account, to evaluate their linguistic proficiency in the English language through its website dedicated to the test. EF SET Similar to TOEFL and IELTS in technical and linguistic design.
The institution said that the exam is currently limited to the listening and reading skills, each of which is 60 minutes long. It is also seeking to develop its exam in the near future.
Language exam for everyone
In the same context, the institution said that the exam is adapted to the level of students, and is divided into beginner, intermediate, and difficult According to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), praised its use by Harvard Graduate School of Research.
The Foundation based the design of the exam on a set of research conducted by a team consisting of:
Lead expert Lyle Bachman (UCLA), author of Language Assessment in Practice (Oxford 2010), and preliminary design consultant.
and “psychometric consultants and data scientists” Rick Licht and John Wells (University of North Carolina at Greensboro).
and Mary Perlman (Perlman Education Group), senior consultant in test development and operations. The team also includes Nathan Carr and Yoko Americus who served as experts in the field of language assessment.
In its research summary on its exam, the institution provided the equivalence of its exam score with TOEFL and IELTS.
The Foundation grants free certificates for every exam passed, as the Foundation is internationally recognized and was established in Sweden in 1965.
The five competencies exam... from training to the exam
The British Qs Foundation provided free five competency exams for students, in the field of general abilities, law, and administration, which include: GMAT GRE SAT LSAT CAT
It also provides training through interactive visual materials, and all the student has to do is take the exam and print the results of his exams through the website page. These exams come as a requirement from some international universities for the student to be accepted.
It is noteworthy that the British Qs Foundation, since its establishment in 1994, has been preparing global university classification lists according to specific criteria, and it also represents a consulting destination for students intending to study at university, especially in the field of business administration.
