SPbU’s testing materials selected as exemplary by Council of Europe

The SPbU’s testing materials are selected as exemplary for English exams at B2 level,  along with Cambridge Language Assessment, Goethe Institute, Euroexam, and others.

The SPbU’s experts were actively engaged in the Council of Europe’s project ‘CEFR Illustrative Tasks: Reading and Listening’. It mainly focuses on making a collection of testing materials offered by the Council of Europe as a standard of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

The SPbU’s testing materials, according to the Council of Europe’s requirements, are selected, along with the materials from 16 top language testing institutions, for English exams at B2 level. The materials are published at the Council’s web-site.

Since 2014, the SPbU’s experts have been engaged in the Language Policy Unit's project that focuses on the descriptors to interpret the texts, with its leader Dr. Brian Nort who is also one of the authors of the CEFR.

Since 2015, the SPbU’s graduates who successfully pass the B2 test get a certificate. The test developed by the SPbU’s experts, as the experts say, correspond to the CEFR and incorporates those elements which are special to Russian education.

SPbU is the first university whose educational standards imply that its students must prove the level of English proficiency at B2. It makes our graduates more successful in labour market, expands academic mobility, and enhance global communication between the universities.