6 things you didn’t know about Cambridge's Linguaskill exam

As we at Worldwide English Services, Inc., roll out Linguaskill, an exam by Cambridge Assessment English, to our clients, we’re often asked a few important questions. Let’s take a closer look at the exam today by diving into six things you probably didn’t know about it.

1.      Linguaskill is administered online. Instead of paying to send employees to a test center, our trainees can go through the test in the comfort of their work or even home office.

2.      We leverage AI proctoring. The first question our clients have when we tell them the exam is administered online has to do with security. How do we know the trainees won’t cheat? This is where AI proctoring takes over, a service that couples advanced algorithms with the trainee’s webcam and microphone to ensure they’re the ones taking the exam. And they’re not getting any help.

3.      Linguaskill is adaptive. What this means is that all trainees take the same exam, with questions getting progressively harder or easier with each correct or incorrect answer. That guarantees a precise result in the shortest amount of time possible.

4.      Linguaskill is for business. While there is a general version of the exam that we use for trainees at lower levels, the biggest reason we push Linguaskill is because it focuses on business English. Why put trainees through a business English course only to have them take an academic test like the IELTS or TOEFL?

5.      We get the results back within 48 hours. A huge benefit of Linguaskill is that you don’t have to wait a week or more to hear how you did. The certificate comes back quickly, telling us exactly how the trainee did.

Linguaskill is something new in the business world, and there’s so much to like. But right about now, you might be asking yourself a question. We said we were going to list six things you didn’t know about the exam, though that was only five. Good memory! It’s just that the last one is so important it’s worth mentioning on its own.

Linguaskill is cheap. In fact, we offer the complete test, with all three modules included, for as low as $65.

If you want to take the IELTS in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, it will cost you $337.25. In Moscow, Russia, it’s $277.93. In Paris, France, it’s $282.39.

But if you want Linguaskill by Cambridge Assessment English through Worldwide English Services, Inc., getting you a complete Cambridge certificate for your trainees, it will cost you just $65 for each of them.

And that’s one thing you definitely didn’t know.