The General English Proficiency Test

                    LTTC   

Chinese

Recognition

The GEPT has received wide recognition since it was launched in the year 2000. As of August 2012, over 5.1 million English learners, from junior high school students to senior citizens, have taken the GEPT. This broad age range conforms to the LTTC's aim of promoting lifelong English learning. Compared to the Elementary and Intermediate levels, at which the majority of test-takers are students, the percentage of non-student test-takers increases at the High-Intermediate and Advanced levels.

GEPT scores are highly dependable and are used as a qualification for career advancement. For instance:

• the Central Personnel Administration of the Executive Yuan acknowledges the GEPT as a criterion for the promotion of civil servants;

• the MOE considers the GEPT a reference for selecting candidates for government scholarships for overseas study;

• the GEPT is used by many private enterprises and government agencies, such as the Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation, the Taiwan Academy of Banking and Finance, NXP Semiconductors, China Airlines, and Eva Air, to evaluate the English abilities of their employees and job applicants.

An increasing number of colleges and universities now require their students to demonstrate their English proficiency by passing a particular GEPT level (either the Intermediate or High-Intermediate level) as a criterion for graduation. This demonstrates that the impact of the GEPT has extended beyond secondary education and produced positive washback on higher education.

• Hundreds of universities and colleges use the GEPT as a criterion for admission, student placement, and graduation. These academic institutions include public schools such as National Central University, National Chengchi University, National Cheng Kung University, National Chiao Tung University, National Chung Cheng University, National Chung Hsing University, National Sun Yat-sen University, National Taipei University of Technology, National Taiwan University, National Taiwan Normal University, National Tsing Hua University, and National Yang-Ming University, as well as private schools such as Fu Jen Catholic University, Providence University, Tamkang University, Tunghai University, and Yuan Ze University.

• National Taiwan University (NTU), besides using the GEPT High-Intermediate as a graduation threshold, has integrated the GEPT into its course design, arranged online and classroom lessons, and aligned course objectives with GEPT High-Intermediate level English proficiency requirements. NTU claims that this has led to measurable improvement in both teaching and learning. Students now have stronger motivation in English learning, clearer guidelines to follow, and enhanced English ability. Teachers, meanwhile, have more specific teaching goals in mind when planning their course outlines.

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The GEPT is reaching out to international communities and has achieved remarkable success:

• The LTTC, in partnership with Academia Sinica, has administered the GEPT in Vietnam since 2007 for the recruitment of qualified Taiwan International Graduate Program applicants.

• International programs offered by various universities in Taiwan, such as National Taiwan University and National Taiwan Normal University, now recognize the GEPT as a reliable means of measuring applicants' English language ability.

• The GEPT has been administered in China since 2010.

• Prestigious universities around the world now admit Taiwanese students to degree, exchange, or summer programs based on their GEPT scores. The universities are listed in the following table.
  
  ● Degree Programs

  Region/Country	Institution	Required level
  Hong Kong	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	High-intermediate
  Japan	Waseda University	Intermediate or above
  Japan	Doshisha University	Advanced
  Korea	Kookmin University	Intermediate or above

  ● Exchange Programs

  Region/Country		Institution	Required level
  Asia	Hong Kong	Chinese University of Hong Kong	High-intermediate
  		The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	High-intermediate
  	Israel	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	High-intermediate
  	Japan	Akita International University	High-intermediate
  		Kanazawa University	High-intermediate
  		Kwansei Gakuin University	High-intermediate
  		Nagasaki University	Advanced
  		Nagoya University	Advanced
  		Tokyo Institute of Technology	High-intermediate
  		University of Tsukuba	High-intermediate
  		Yokohama National University	High-intermediate
  	Korea Pusan	National University	High-intermediate
  	Turkey	Koç University	High-intermediate
  Europe	Austria	Johannes Kepler University Linz	High-intermediate
  	Czech Republic	Masaryk University	High-intermediate
  	Denmark	University of Copenhagen	High-intermediate
  	France	École Supérieure d'Électricité	High-intermediate
  		Sciences Po Paris	Advanced
  		The University of Technology of Troyes	High-intermediate
  		Université Joseph Fourier – Grenoble 1	High-intermediate
  		University Montpellier 2	High-intermediate
  	Germany	Aachen University	Advanced
  		Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin	Advanced
  		Technische Universität Berlin	High-intermediate
  		University of Hamburg	Advanced
  	Iceland	University of Iceland	High-intermediate
  	Latvia	University of Latvia	High-intermediate
  	Spain	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid	High-intermediate
  	Russia Saint	Petersburg State University	High-intermediate
  	Sweden	Linköping University	High-intermediate
  		Umeå University	High-intermediate
  	Switzerland	University of Bern	Advanced
  	The Netherlands	Maastricht University	Advanced
  North America	Canada	University of Waterloo	Advanced
  	U.S.A.	University of Oregon	Advanced

  ● Visiting Student Program

  Country	Institution	Required level
  Spain	Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona	High-intermediate
  U.S.A.	University of California, Davis	High-intermediate

  ● Summer Programs

  Country	Institution	Required level
  U.K.	Hertford College of Oxford University	High-intermediate
  	King's College London	High-intermediate
  U.S.A.	North Carolina State University	High-intermediate
  	University of California, Berkeley	High-intermediate
  Japan	Kyushu University	High-intermediate
  	Nagoya University	High-intermediate

A number of other institutions are in the process of adding the GEPT to their lists of recognized English language tests.

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