English Language Skills Assessment (ELSA)

Listening / Reading Test


The Listening/Reading Test is in multiple-choice format and takes 2 hours
and 5 minutes.

The Listening Test is scored on a scale of 0 - 250 and consists
of 100 questions in four sections:

  1. Rejoinder
  2. A-B-A exchange
  3. A-B-A-B-A exchange
  4. Announcement/Presentation

The Reading Test is scored on a scale of 0 - 250 and consists
of 100 questions in four sections:

  1. Sentence completion and vocabulary
  2. Cloze passages
  3. Error recognition
  4. Passages