Assessments for every Proficiency Level
Seven levels of English language assessment aligned with the CEFR and evaluating five language skills
Sprouts
Candidates recognize everyday objects in images and comprehend statements about their immediate environment. Questions that assess reading, listening, and linguistic elements consist of maximum one-sentence prompts, while speaking and writing – which are optional at this level – require candidates to share rudimentary information about themselves in as little as a few words.
Seedlings
Candidates understand and respond to everyday expressions and to topics about themselves. They use situational vocabulary for communicative acts and follow rudimentary commands. Questions that assess reading, listening, and linguistic elements consist of one to two sentences, while speaking and writing – which are optional – encourage candidates to expand on personal topics.
Blossoms
Candidates comprehend and respond to everyday expressions and to topics about themselves and others in their immediate environment. They engage in interactive speech acts, performing simple everyday language roles. Reading, listening, and language function questions utilize slightly more complex structures and vocabulary. Similarly, speaking –optional – and writing require short learner output on topics relevant to the candidates and those around them.
Adventurers
Candidates expand on the communicative acts of the previous levels, recognizing and responding to frequently-used expressions and topics appropriate to their cognitive abilities. They comprehend ideas and facts from short passages and identify factual information from short dialogues. In verbal communication – optional – candidates discuss their immediate environment, while writing production includes short text-messages, notes, friendly emails, and writing or responding to invitations.
Navigators
Candidates comprehend facts and opinions from authentic short passages and dialogues. In speaking, they expand on communicative performances about personal questions and everyday activities of their immediate interests. They are also able to perform speech acts such as expressing preference, agreement, and disagreement. Candidates write 50-80 words, addressing prompts such as, writing simple stories and friendly emails (about present, future, past activities, people, shopping, holidays, sports, animals, and festivals).
Pioneers
Candidates’ reception and production of language incorporates a wide variety of linguistic functions and complexity. Candidates identify key points and opinions from authentic passages and dialogues suitable to their cognitive abilities. They grasp factual information and make simple inferences about characters and plot. Communicative performances in both speaking and writing require fluency in conveying events, experiences, and personal goals. Candidates write narrative essays, formal and informal emails, and opinion articles in which they formulate and support ideas and personal viewpoints of about 80-100 words.
Fluent Fylers
Candidates identify key points, perspectives, and opinions from extended passages and dialogues about sociocultural contexts. They grasp the main ideas and inferences and identify the author’s intentions. Speaking tasks require higher confidence and fluency in expressing abstract topics and descriptions with varied linguistic complexities. Writing of about 100-130 words, such as argumentative and opinion essays, articles, and formal emails, employs complex expressions with appropriate transition words that showcase the candidates’ language spectrum.