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Test

Test Date

Reading
                                

Listening

Speaking

Writing

Total

TELXML

January 19, 2007

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How to interpret scores?

Reading  Skills

Level  

Your Performance  

Reading

Low(0-15)

Test takers who receive a score at the LOW level, as you did, typically understand some of the information presented in academic texts in English that require a wide range of reading abilities, but their understanding is limited.

Test takers who receive a score at the LOW level typically

• have a command of basic academic vocabulary, but their understanding of less common vocabulary is inconsistent;

• have limited ability to understand and connect information, have difficulty recognizing paraphrases of text information, and often rely on particular words and phrases rather than a complete understanding of the text;

• have difficulty identifying the author's purpose, except when that purpose is explicitly stated in the text or easy to infer from the text; and

• can sometimes recognize major ideas from a text when the information is clearly presented, memorable, or illustrated by examples but have difficulty doing so when the text is more demanding.

Listening  Skills

Level  

Your Performance  

Listening

Low(0-13)

Test takers who receive a score at the LOW level, as you did, typically understand the main idea and some important details of conversations. However, test takers at the low level may have difficulty understanding lectures and conversations in English that involve abstract or complex ideas and recognizing the relationship between those ideas. Test takers at this level also may not understand sections of lectures and conversations that contain difficult vocabulary or complex grammatical structures.

Test takers at the LOW level typically can

• understand main ideas when they are stated explicitly or marked as important but may have difficulty understanding main ideas if they are not stated explicitly;

• understand important details when they are stated explicitly or marked as important but may have difficulty understanding details if they are not repeated or clearly marked as important, or if they are conveyed over several exchanges among different speakers;

• understand ways that speakers use language to emphasize a point or to indicate agreement or disagreement, but generally only when the information is related to a central theme or is clearly marked as important; and

• make connections between the key ideas in a conversation, particularly if the ideas are related to a central theme or are repeated.

Speaking  Skills

Level  

Your Performance  

Speaking about familiar topics

Limited(1.5 - 2.0)

Your responses indicate some difficulty speaking in English about everyday experiences and opinions. Listeners sometimes have trouble understanding you because of noticeable problems with pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. While you are able to respond partially to the questions, you are not able to fully develop your ideas, possibly due to limited vocabulary and grammar.

Speaking about campus situations

Limited(1.5 - 2.0)

Your responses indicate that you have some difficulty speaking in English about information from conversations, newspaper articles, university publications, and so on. While you are able to talk about some of the key information from these sources, limited grammar and vocabulary may prevent you from fully expressing your ideas. Problems with pronunciation make it difficult for listeners to understand you at times.

Speaking about academic course content

Weak(0 - 1.0)

Your responses are incomplete. They include little or no information about the topic. Your speech is often difficult for listeners to understand, and the meaning is unclear.

Writing  Skills

Level  

Your Performance  

Writing based on reading and listening

Limited(1.0 - 2.0)

Your response was judged as limited due to

• failure to understand the lecture or reading passage;

• deficiencies in relating the lecture to the reading passage; and/or

• many grammatical errors and/or very unclear expressions and sentence structures.

Writing based on knowledge and experience

Limited(1.0 - 2.0)

You attempted to express your opinion, but your response indicates notable deficiencies such as

• your response contains insufficient detail;

• your ideas and your connections of ideas are difficult to understand because of many grammatical errors and/or very unclear expressions and sentence structure; and/or

• your response is only marginally related to the question that was asked.