Appropriate for:
Secondary (grades 11-12), Higher Education and beyond.
Test Length:
50 minutes for a two-level test (A, B, C & D); 75 minutes for a three-level test (E, F & G*); 125 minutes for a for-level test (H**).
Test Format:
The LPT consists of recorded passages at specific levels of proficiency. Each passage has three questions with four multiple-choice answers.
Test Content:
Range of informal/formal speech on general, social, and academic topics, such as daily interactions, reports, discussions and broadcasts.
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Arabic and Mandarin will be introduced in 2015
*This is a semi-adaptive version of the test designed to start at Advanced Low and is based on the candidate response.
The test offers higher or lower level tasks. This is the test to choose if the student’s proficiency is unknown and/or the instructor would like to give all of his or her students the same test and not select ranges individually, etc. ** This is the full-range test.