The Versant™ Professional English Test was developed by experts in psychometrics and linguistics and is our most comprehensive Versant language proficiency test. Taken on a computer and marked by Pearson’s patented Versant AI scoring technology, this 60-minute test is designed to assess a candidate’s ability to deal with workplace situations and provides rich insights into their speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. Corporations, private language schools and training providers around the world use Versant to baseline an employee’s English skills, measure progress in a language program, or use results as insights to uncover learning needs.
About the test:
- Questions: 58
- Duration: ~60 minutes
- Question Types:
- Sentence Completion
- Passage Reconstruction
- Reading Comprehension
- E-mail Writing
- Dictation
- Response Selection
- Passage Comprehension
- Repeat
- Speaking Situations
- Story Retellings
Score report:
Overall score provided on the Global Scale of English (10-90).
- Individual skill scores in speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
- In-depth analysis of language proficiency across the 4 skills.
- Suggestions for improvement.
- All scores are aligned to CEFR levels.
- Recommendations mapped to selected Pearson courseware.
Test Security
- Secure capture and storage of candidate responses.
- Anonymous test ID numbers to ensure data privacy.
- Randomized test forms per test level to prevent cheating.
Simple Test Administration – 1, 2, 3, 4
- The test administrator sends the test taker a test invite via the online admin tool, ScoreKeeper.
- The test taker enters their unique test ID on the secure Versant testing site to start the test.
- The test taker answers the test questions, and the answers are scored automatically.
- The test administrator retrieves the test taker’s detailed score report from ScoreKeeper.
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