TOEFL Junior Challenge 2014 launched

More than 5,600 candidates from 123 secondary schools in Hanoi attended the first round of the 2014 TOEFL Junior Challenge for the capital city on October 26.

TOEFL Junior Challenge is an English proficiency contest tailored directly towards Secondary school students. This contest uses tests with international standards provided by ETS - TOEFL Junior and TPO (TOEFL Practice Online) as the evaluation criteria.

This year, IIG Vietnam – the only official representative of Educational Testing Service (ETS) is cooperating with 17 Departments of Education and Training in the country to organize the TOEFL Junior Challenge 2014 on a national scale.

In the first round, the candidates will take the multiple choice English test – designed by experts from ETS. In the second round, they will take the TOEFL Junior test and in the third (final) round they will take the TPO (TOEFL Practice Online) test.

The regional’s results will be compared against TOEFL Junior Challenge 2014 round 3’s results from all the cities in the country to compete for 1 National First prize, 3 National Second Prizes, and 6 National Third prizes.

(Source: VOV)