Streamline your pre-interview or admissions process and identify top candidates quickly with automated English, French, German, and Spanish screening tests you can trust.
Quickly get a reliable sense of applicants’ language abilities with a test can be taken in 10 minutes or less on almost any device.
Send tests on demand to up to 20 applicants at once with just a few clicks. All you need is their email.
Issue tests with confidence. The short duration and simple interface make our completion rates higher than average.
View results immediately thanks to machine scoring. Use filters in the Admin Portal to find qualified candidates.
Our tests may be quick, but they are backed by years of research in language proficiency testing. Results are more then reliable enough to determine who to eliminate and who to interview.
The test adapts to each taker to provide the most accurate estimate of their proficiency.
A patent-pending test method delivers results that you can trust every single time. Learn more.
The test format is informed by reputable research and thoroughly validated. Learn more.
As low as
$ 4/test
Recommended for one-time screening needs or issuing less than 10,000 tests/year
Standard testing portal
Admin access
Annual subscription
$ 40,000/year
Recommended for issuing more than 10,000-50,000 tests/year
Includes everything from Professional, plus:
Custom testing portal
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Our screening tests consist of two parts: the first is an alternate-choice test in which the examinee must choose the "more correct or natural" of two words or phrases. The second is a variant of a close test called a C-test, in which the examinee must fill in the second half of every other word in a paragraph, performed for one or more paragraphs. The entire test may take about 10 minutes. Learn more.
Our screening tests provide reliable estimates of general language proficiency, which can be used to help screen for job applicants or others who require particular levels of language ability. Using pools of paid and volunteer participants, we've validated our test results against well-established benchmark tests (such as the IELTS test for English), and our test items have been checked for validity against industry-standard analysis models. Learn more.
Independent research has consistently shown that the item types and test formats used in Transparent's screening tests provide reliable measures of global language proficiency, owing primarily to the fact that they sample a broad range of natural language features including vocabulary, syntax, morphology, spelling, and discourse pragmatics.
In the Admin Portal, the test administrator will see the following results:
Test results are reported on a scale that ranges from 20 to 120. This scaled score is used to translate the complex mathematical language of log-likelihoods used by psychometricians into a more user-friendly scale using a procedure not unlike that used to translate temperatures from Celsius to Fahrenheit or measurements from centimeters to inches.
In order to map these scaled scores onto the CEFR scale, our screening tests were administered to test takers with recently validated IELTS scores. Reasonably strong correlations between these results in the range of r=.78 to r=.83 establish what is known as the criterion validity of our screening tests and provide a moderately high level of confidence in the mapping from our scaled scores to estimated levels of proficiency (e.g., B1, B2, C1) on the CEFR scale. Learn more.
Yes! We are able to create tests for additional languages, or English tests for specific domains, on a case by case basis. Fill in the form below and let us know what you're looking for in a custom test. Please include language, domain, proficiency level, and another other relevant details as applicable.