IPSA - International Partners for Study Abroad

English Language School in Durban, South Africa.
Language Test.


Please do and submit this placement test online
even if you send application by fax or snail mail.

    This test is graded from easy to difficult, so you may not be able to answer all the questions. Try to answer as many as possible.

    IMPORTANT: DO NOT USE any dictionaries or books or ask teachers or friends for help. It is very important that you do this placement test ON YOUR OWN so that we can see your true level of English and can put you in the correct class.

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Section A.

Please check the radio button in front of the right word(s) in the sentence or in front of the right sentence:

  1. Hello. My | name | names | name's | Thomas Wilson.

  2. Where | do you | are you | is your | come from?

  3. I | am twenty years | have twenty | am twenty |.

  4. James lives | in | at | by | a small house.

  5. What's your | mother | mothers | mother's | name?

  6. Sally is a nice girl, | and I like her | and I like | and I like him |.

  7. Yesterday, I | was | were | is | at home.

  8. How many languages | you speak | do you speak | does you speak | ?

  9. He has | good job | a good job | the good job | .

  10. Our new teacher is | much | more | most | better than our old one.

  11. What | do you do | are you doing | are you do | in your spare time?

  12. Anne | say | said | tell | goodbye to me.

  13. I've decided | stop | stopping | to stop | smoking.

  14. She works | at | for | in | a big company.

  15. How long | has she known | has she been knowing | does she know | John?

  16. He said | me to come | that I could come | me that I could come |.

  17. If I would have a car, I would give you a lift.
    If I had a car, I would give you a lift
    If I would have a car, I'll give you a lift.

  18. A: Do we really need to go to the wedding?
    B: Yes, I think we're allowed to go.
    B: Yes, we had to go.
    B: Yes, I think we're expected to go.

  19. I | took | lent | borrowed | some money from my mother, but I've already paid it back.

  20. She's very late, the car | must | should | can't | have broken down again.

  21. Take some warm clothes with you in case | it gets | it's going to get | it'll get | cold.

  22. If you had phoned earlier, I would | have be | have been | had been | able to give you a lift.

  23. By the time I got to the restaurant, she | had already left | have already left | left already |.

  24. If I found a wallet in the street, I'd take it to the police.
    If I found a wallet in the street, I'll take it to the police.
    If I find a wallet in the street, I'd take it to the police.

  25. I don't have much time today, | but also | have another thing | however | I can see you tomorrow.



Part B. Write a paragraph for each of these topics:

    1. A normal day in my life. (150 words)



    2. My favorite childhood memory. (150 words)