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2d ago
ETS has partnered with United Airlines in Taiwan. TOEFL test takers who upload a score report can win airplane tickets. The report must be from a test taken in Taiwan sometime after January 1 of this year. Fun partnerships like this one give me joy. I’m reminded of the small discount for ISIC card holders. ..read more
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3d ago
No clients to write for at the moment, so I finally have a moment to produce my own material. Here’s a new TOEFL integrated writing practice question. It’s about banning CFL light bulbs. The topic represents an effort to make questions that are more tedious and obscure than what test takers usually find in practice ..read more
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4d ago
Below are a few photos taken the immigration hub across the street from Khalsa College in Amritsar (click for bigger versions). The hub consists of a couple of city blocks consisting almost entirely of immigration consultancies. Signs advertising the same can also be found in the adjacent residential area. As you can see, PTE and ..read more
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6d ago
So I sat down at a tea stand in Amritsar to drink tea and read The New Yorker (as one does). I looked up and across the street spotted a big ol’ “go to Canada” consultancy. What are the odds? Pretty good, actually, as there are whole city blocks filled with almost nothing but such ..read more
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6d ago
The TOEFL website was just overhauled! There is a new registration portal that looks like this: The date of birth error I mentioned a couple of days ago has been corrected. Also, the rest of the website has been reorganized with an improved navigation system. There is still too much stuff on the site, but ..read more
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1w ago
I read this report that Prometric might be for sale. Prometric does a lot of things related to English testing; it operates test centers around the world, remotely proctors the “OET@Home,” and owns both the CAEL and CELPIP tests. Regular readers know that Prometric was owned by ETS from 2007 to 2018. It was sold ..read more
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1w ago
I had the honor of speaking at the Skills for English Partners meet in Chandigarh a couple of days ago. My congratulations go out to Prakash Upadhyay and Mazhar Hussain and Lesinda Leightley for their deft organizational skills, and my sincere thanks go out to them for inviting me to take part. I spoke ..read more
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1w ago
I saw that Nicholas Lemann has written a new book on standardized testing called “Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing.” I’m looking forward to reading it, as Lemann’s “The Big Test” (published 25 years ago) is one of my favorite works on the topic. It was also the inaugural selection for ..read more
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1w ago
The new TOEFL website has reset the birthdays of many (all?) users to January 1, 1970. This cannot be fixed by the users. Update: ETS has told me that this is an UI error, and that the proper birthdate is stored in the system ..read more
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2w ago
The ETS 990 form for the year ending September 30, 2023 is now available. You can read it on Propublica. A few things are worth noting here: ETS reported revenue of 1.06 billion dollars for the year. That’s down from 1.12 billion in 2022. Other than the pandemic-impacted 2020 financial year, you’ve got to go ..read more