Batteries of tests are in Arabic, Czech, Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian Farsi, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Romanian, Russian, Serbian/Croatian, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. The receptive skills tests (listening and reading) are multiple choice and machine scorable. Speaking is assessed in two ways: (1) by a face-to-face interview conducted by a pair of trained interviewers who provide a global assessment of the examinee's speaking proficiency on the basis of the ILR S-scale; (2) by a telephone or screen-to-screen interview using video teleconferencing equipment, Discrepant ratings are resolved by a third rater.
Each battery consists ofa separate skill test measuring listeningcomprehension, reading comprehension,and speaking proficiency. There are nomeasures of writing.