Progress

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Track your students' progress

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Progress is an online, fully-automated and adaptive English test that rapidly tests all of your students’ skills. The results are available within an hour, with no extra work for the teacher. Progress accurately measures students’ progress in English, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses so as to maximise the impact of teaching.

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About Progress

Progress is a fully-automated, partially adaptive test offering multiple test moments. You can either use the test as part of an English programme in conjunction with a Pearson English Language Teaching course, or separately as an independent test.

Test results are available within one hour without any correction time for the teacher. The results give an overview of how individual students and the class as a whole are doing.

Features of Progress:

Is an integrated skills test
Is objective and reliable
Shows progress based on CEFR and GSE scale
Measures exact and detailed
Adapts to the test takers ability
Measures level for each skill
Cuts time spent administering tests to a minimum
Saves time and gives teachers more space for teaching

Which skills does Progress test?

Reading
Writing
Listening
Speaking
Use of English language: grammar and vocabulary

Types of questions:

Short Answer, Choose the Right Picture, Word, Phrase, Drag and Drop, Listen and Answer, Describe, Short Essay, Read and Speak, Listen and Write, Listen and Speak, Read and Write, Listen and Read, Listen and Speak, Passage Comprehension, Complete Dialogue, Fill in the Table.

Digital and fully adaptive test

Developed by experts: teams in the UK, Australia, the US and Hong Kong have prepared questions that are ranked by GSE level (Global Scale or English) and linked to the CEFR.
Convenient: the rigorous test can be taken at a teaching institution or at home.
Saves time: ready-made test with automatic scoring, including for the speaking and writing sections.
Rapid results: adaptive test delivers rapid yet precise results, while offering a unique test experience.
Objective and reliable: standardised package of three tests that allows uniform testing and comparison of results to improve learning outcomes.
Motivating: scored on the Global Scale of English and empirically aligned to the CEFR for the accurate measurement of even small degrees of progress within a CEFR band.
Informed learning: skill-based score reports highlight strengths and weaknesses to help students and teachers focus on learning.