Exemption Exams

ENG 101 EXEMPTION EXAM

The ENG 101 exemption exam is designed to assess students’ proficiency in English to a level deemed appropriate to follow English medium undergraduate instruction without the support of the English Academic Skills I (ENG 101) course content.

The ENG 101 exemption exam consists of four parts, with a total of 100 points. These parts are Listening, Reading, Vocabulary, and Writing.

The Listening part is worth twenty (20) points and consists of two tasks. In Task 1, students listen to a lecture on an academic topic, approximately three or four minutes in length and played twice. They take notes in the box provided on the exam sheet. In Task 2, students use their notes and write an academically acceptable summary of the lecture in the box provided on the exam sheet, maximum five sentences long. The summary is graded based on five criteria, with each criterion worth four points (see Table 1 for the grading criteria).

The Reading part is worth twenty (20) points and consists of a single task. Students read the abstracts of three academic research texts, each approximately 200 words, and answer ten multiple-choice questions with four options each. Each question is worth two points.

The Vocabulary part is worth twenty (20) points and consists of two tasks. Task 1 includes an academic paragraph worth ten points, containing five blanks, each worth two points. Students fill in the blanks by selecting the appropriate words from seven options provided in the box. Each blank is filled with a different word, and the form of the words must not be changed. Task 2 also includes an academic paragraph worth ten points, containing five blanks, each worth two points. Students fill in the blanks by selecting the appropriate words from five options provided in the box. Each blank is filled with a different word, and in this task, the form of the words must be changed.

The Writing section is worth forty (40) points and consists of a single task. Students are required to write an academic text of approximately 200–250 words in response to a short prompt related to a topic covered in the Listening and Reading sections. In their response, they are expected to support their own ideas using information from the Listening and/or Reading parts, incorporating at least one paraphrase and one direct quotation with appropriate in-text citations. The written response is graded based on 15 criteria (see Table 2 for the grading criteria).