The Test of Listening contains four parts. Each part requires the test taker to
listen to a recording (between 3 and 10 minutes) while answering a set of multiple-choice
questions about the recording. The four parts are of different and increasing difficulty
level, such that the first part is the easiest and the last the most difficult.
The recordings are of different types (e.g., dialogues, discussions, announcements,
lectures, etc) and different topics.
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The Test of Reading contains three parts. Each part requires the test taker to read
a text (of between 400 and 800 words) and answer a set of multiple-choice questions
about the text. The three parts are of different and increasing difficulty level,
such that the first part is the easiest and the last the most difficult. The texts
are of different types (e.g., news or magazine articles, extracts from academic
papers, essays, etc) and different topics.
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The Test of Grammar contains two parts. Each part requires the test taker to read
a text written by a student and answer a set of multiple-choice questions about
the use of grammar in the text.
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The Test of Vocabulary contains one part of up to 30 questions. Each question requires
the test taker to read a sentence and then complete the sentence with the most appropriate
word from the choices given. All words are taken from the Academic Word List.
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Click here to view the DELTA Guidelines.