Test Evaluation and Certification

The members of the telc Examination Administration team have very diversified duties. Quite possibly you’ve already spoken to someone on the Service Hotline yourself. Here you receive assistance in registering examinations and in organisational matters regarding the telc tests.

Many team members, however, work behind the scenes. These include all those involved in scoring and the issuance of the telc certificates.

Scoring

After an examination has been held, the examination centre sends all the candidates’ documents to the telc Head Office. Here they are scored according to standardised rating procedures.

Quality assurance

The telc Examination Administration team plays an important role in maintaining quality standards. One example: the high-performance scanner registers unclear marking when electronically reading the answer sheet, e.g., when a candidate has erased an answer. Special software automatically signals the query and a team member determines manually which answer is to be processed.

Relaying the examination results

After the tests have been scored, the team members ensure that the results are printed out and sent to the examination centres. All candidates receive an evaluation sheet with their results in the four skills – listening, reading, writing and speaking – and, of, course a telc certificate when they have passed the examination.