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Acquire the Full Report of “China Workplace English Benchmarking Project”

BULATS Test is ideal for assessing the language skills of employees, job applicants and civil servants who need to use a foreign language in their work and for students on language courses or on professional/business courses where foreign language ability is an important element of the course.

From 2005, the Personnel Testing Authorities under the Ministry of Personnel organises a BULATS test for individual candidates twice a year. Candidates can register for the test according to the registration policy issued by each local test centre.
The test fee is RMB390 for every candidate. There are 13 test centres in China located in Beijing,Shanghai,TianjinGuangzhou,Chongqing,Hebei,Liaoning,Qingdao,Xi'an,Hangzhou,Jiangsu,Chengdu,Xiamen More information about the test dates and registration policy can be found on the official website of thePersonnel Testing Authorities.

Range of Test

The test for individual candidates is the BULATS Standard Test. It is a pencil-and-paper test. It can assess listening and reading skills, and knowledge of grammar and vocabulary. It lasts 110 minutes: 50 minutes for listening and 60 minutes for reading and language knowledge.

Listening
(about 50 minutes)        
Reading and Language Knowledge
(60 minutes) 

Understanding short extracts

Taking down phone messages

Listening for gist

Listening to extended speech
for detail and inference

 

Understanding notices, messages, etc.

Reading for specific information

Understanding long text

Filling gaps (Grammar and Vocabulary)

Error correction task

 
Bulats Test Report
ULATS links into the ALTE Framework of levels for language ability. BULATS Standard Test produces a report with the candidate's overall score (on a scale of 0 - 100) and level (on the ALTE level system of 0 - 5), and their score on each section of the test. On the reverse of the report there is a summary of the ALTE Can Do statements. The term of validity of a BULATS test result is 2 years.
Why take the BULATS test?

A BULATS test result is now recognised as a reliable evidence of workplace English ability by more and more companies, organisations and governments. The local governments of Shanghai and Hangzhou have started to use BULATS to test the English ability of civil servants. Many companies use BULATS to assess the language ability of groups of employees or trainees and to set up a workplace English benchmark for the company.

The candidates can increase their workplace competency through holding a reliable certificate of English ability. The test result is also helpful for the candidate to understand his/her workplace English ability and make a study plan of further improvement.

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