Group 1

Placement and Diagnostic Test

 Placement Test
• Used to assign students to classes at different levels.
• No one placement test will work for every
institution.
• The most successful one are those constructed for
particular situations.

Placment 2
 Diagnostic Test
• It is the type of assessment given at the beginning of the
instructions. It aims to identify the strengths and weaknesses
of the students regarding the topic to be discussed.
• A diagnostic test is a test designed to locate specific learning
deficiencies in case of specific individuals at a specific stage
of learning lesson, so that specific efforts could be made to
overcome those deficiencies.

Diagnostic 3
 Types of Diagnostic Test
• Pre-Test
• Self Assessment
• Interviews

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 Advantages and Disadvantages of
Diagnostic Test
Advantages
• Analysis of learner’s performance in writing and speaking
in terms of grammatical accuracy or linguistic appropriacy.
Disadvantages
• Difficulty in identifying whether a learner masters the
present perfect/past tense distinction.

Diagnostic Test 5
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