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Supporting international admissions with a secure, reliable and fit for purpose English test 

LanguageCert Academic is a multilevel English test with enhanced academic focus, offering more choice to undergraduate and postgraduate students who need to provide evidence of language proficiency for admission to higher education. It is developed from the internationally recognised LanguageCert ESOL and represents an evolution of our testing solutions to meet our stakeholders’ needs. LanguageCert Academic is approved by UK Visas and Immigration as a Secure English Language Test (SELT).

What makes LanguageCert Academic relevant for higher education? 

The contexts focus on language used in an academic environment, with generic academic vocabulary and expressions relevant to most subjects.

The tasks sample features of language and skills from those required to succeed in an academic setting, e.g., writing essays, giving presentations, note-taking, formulating arguments. 
Academic relevance factsheet  
The test spans the range of CEFR levels that support recognising institutions decide whether a student will be able to cope with academic language requirements at university, i.e., CEFR B1–C2.

Useful Resources

LANGUAGECERT Academic Institution Guide

Handbook

Sample test report

Fostering academic English skills

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Ecctis evaluation summary

Sample papers

Security Factsheet

Academic relevance factsheet

Concordance Study Summary

Additional benefits to your institution

  • Convenient and accessible testing supported by industry-leading security measures. Our strict security protocols, online and at test centres, throughout the examination process, ensure our tests are fair and deliver genuine results you can trust.
  • Fast results verifiable through our secure verification platform to support application processing and turnaround times on student offers.
  • Use of our extensive partner network to increase and diversify enrollments.
  • Participation in our international scholarship programmes.

How is LanguageCert Academic mapped to the CEFR and other tests?

LanguageCert Academic is directly calibrated to the levels of the Common European Framework of Reference produced by the Council of Europe. This means that performance on LanguageCert tests is directly comparable to exams from other English language testing organisations. Extensive concordance studies with other tests are currently in progress and will be available later in 2023.

The established scoring arrangements between LanguageCert Academic and the CEFR are verified by ongoing analysis of test performance as well as by the LanguageCert Research and Validation programmes. Concordancing evidence with other tests (such as that provided with IELTS in the table), are an illustration of the equivalencies as verified both internally and externally by our external partners. Learn more. 

The LanguageCert Global Scale is an easy-to-understand results system which reports scores on a 0-100 scale and links to the CEFR. It applies across all the LanguageCert tests and enables the setting of specific levels of attainment needed to fulfil certain requirements such as entrance into a university. The levels of attainment relate to overall test performance and performance by skill (e.g., speaking).

 

Test format and structure

LanguageCert Academic assesses 4 skills (Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking) through a Written and a Spoken component. Both the Written and Spoken components are available through the LanguageCertCert Secure Test Centre network and via Online Proctoring with enhanced security. 

Underpinned by robust research and validation

In order to support the production of high-quality exam materials, LanguageCert makes use of both internal and external research and validation resources. Recent publications of relevance to the validation, reliability, quality and impact of LanguageCert examinations are provided.

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Find out about LanguageCert's international scholarships

Language has the power to improve lives, facilitate access to higher education and significantly enhance career prospects. Our mission is to provide the best language skills assessment and certification, while giving equal opportunities to test takers worldwide.

Our scholarships, in partnership with the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU), Community Colleges for International Development (CCID) and Languages Canada, allow international students who have passed LanguageCert Academic or LanguageCert ESOL English proficiency tests, to study at one of their member institutions in North America. 

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