English placement test for language schools
English is where NGPT has the most behind it: the largest question bank, and more than 190,000 answers from real candidates, from which the difficulty of most English questions has been measured.
The test in brief
- Length
- 18 to 30 scored questions, 15 to 20 minutes
- Result
- A CEFR level from A1 to C2, a score from 10 to 89 and its margin
- Question bank
- More than 1,800 English questions, at least 100 at every level
- Where
- Any phone, tablet or computer; no account, nothing to install
- Price
- €1.99 per test, excluding VAT
What a question looks like
Most are one sentence with one gap: the candidate chooses the missing word from three or four options, or types it, sometimes from a word given in brackets. Others ask which word or phrase fits. These three were written for this page; the real ones are drawn from the bank for each candidate.
- A2How much sugar do you take in your coffee?
- B1+By the time we arrived, the film had already started.
- C1Hardly had I sat down when the phone rang.
What the questions cover
Grammar and vocabulary in use, from a first greeting to the fine print. The list shows the kind of thing asked at each stage; the test moves between them as the candidate answers.
Suits general English, exam preparation intakes and in-company courses for teenagers and adults. The result is a CEFR level for placing a student, not a certificate.
- A1 and A2
- be and have, present simple and continuous, past simple, comparatives, countable and uncountable nouns, everyday vocabulary
- B1 and B1+
- present perfect, first and second conditionals, modal verbs, reported speech, relative clauses
- B2 and B2+
- third and mixed conditionals, passive forms, gerund or infinitive, collocations and phrasal verbs
- C1 and C2
- inversion, cleft sentences, formal and hypothetical structures, idiom, register and fine shades of meaning
About the English test
How long does the English placement test take?
Usually 15 to 20 minutes. The test asks 18 to 30 scored questions, plus up to 3 that are being tried out and do not count, and stops early when one level is clearly the most likely.
Which levels does the English test cover?
All eight: A1, A2, B1, B1+, B2, B2+, C1 and C2, with a score from 10 to 89 that shows where inside the level the candidate stands.
What does the English placement test cost?
€1.99 per test, excluding VAT, the same as every other language. There is no subscription, and a school can try 10 tests free.
Can we use it together with other languages?
Yes. One school account covers all five languages. You choose the language each time you send a test, and the results appear in the same list.
Other languages
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