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General English
Placement Test
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General English
Placement Test
© Ruby Institute 2019-2020
General English
Placement Test
Ruby Institute Pty Ltd trading as Ruby Institute | ABN 13 612 126 986 | RTO 45148 | CRICOS 03723G
Lvl 7, 250 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000| Tel +61 3 9069 2172 | email: [email protected]
General English Placement Test | 20200106 | Page 3 of 14
Contents
Purpose ............................................................................................................................................ 4
Process ............................................................................................................................................ 4
Section 1 – Grammar Test – 15 Minutes ........................................................................................... 5
Section 2 – Reading and Grammar Test – 15 Minutes ...................................................................... 8
Section 3 – Writing Test – 15 Minutes ............................................................................................. 12
Section 4 – Speaking and Listening Test – 15 Minutes ................................................................... 14
End of Placement Test.................................................................................................................... 14
General English
Placement Test
Ruby Institute Pty Ltd trading as Ruby Institute | ABN 13 612 126 986 | RTO 45148 | CRICOS 03723G
Lvl 7, 250 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000| Tel +61 3 9069 2172 | email: [email protected]
General English Placement Test | 20200106 | Page 4 of 14
Purpose
The Placement Test policy is in designed to help place students in a class appropriate to their needs
in accordance with their English language proficiency level at the time of the test.
The Placement Test is conducted consistently and fairly, in accordance with standards relevant to the
six levels of General English teaching: Beginner, Elementary, Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper
Intermediate, and Advanced.
Process
The Ruby Institute Placement Test is 60 minutes long. It consists of four sections:
Section 1 – Grammar (40 multiple choice questions – estimated to take about 15 minutes).
These questions test the basics of grammar.
Section 2 – Reading and Grammar (12 multiple choice questions – estimated to take about
15 minutes). These questions test comprehension and sentence structure.
Section 3 – Writing (short report of between 120 and 180 words – estimated to take about 15
minutes). This section tests written literacy.
Section 4 – Speaking and Listening (10 minutes preparation and a 5-minute interview with the
head of Studies or nominee.). This section tests verbal literacy.
The Placement Test will be graded by the Head of Studies or nominee. The result will be recorded on
a Placement Test Result Record.
As a basis for grading, the marking guide for the test uses the six ELICOS levels, from Beginner to
Advanced, as listed above. Each skill is graded separately. A total grade for the Placement Test is
calculated on a weighted average basis in order to give each skill a comparable value.
Students taking the Placement Test and who wish to Study General English will be placed in one of
the six ELICOS levels base on their total Placement Test results.
Ruby Institute reserves the right, at any time, to retest students whose placement test result could
possibly not be an accurate indication of their actual English proficiency level. As previously
mentioned, the test is designed to help Ruby Institute place students according to their measured
level of proficiency at the time of the test.
General English
Placement Test
Ruby Institute Pty Ltd trading as Ruby Institute | ABN 13 612 126 986 | RTO 45148 | CRICOS 03723G
Lvl 7, 250 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000| Tel +61 3 9069 2172 | email: [email protected]
General English Placement Test | 20200106 | Page 5 of 14
Section 1 – Grammar Test – 15 Minutes
Write the letter (a, b. c, or d) of the correct answer on the line in the sentence.
1. My friend Mike is medium ____.
a. height
b. high
c. long
d. length
7. My hobby is ____.
a. listening music
b. listening to a music
c. listening at music
d. listening to music
2. Do you ____ glasses?
a. wearing
b. wore
c. wear
d. worn
8. ____ play tennis with me tomorrow?
a. May we
b. Wish we to
c. Did you like
d. Would you like to
3. Are there ____ apples?
a. the
b. any
c. a bit
d. an
9. I met my partner ____.
a. before 10 years
b. 10 years ago
c. since 10 years
d. 10 years for
4. The trainers were ____.
a. convenience
b. comfortably
c. helpful
d. unhappiness
10. I will have a car ____ next year.
a. by
b. until
c. in
d. on
5. I ____ my homework yesterday
a. didn’t finish
b. don’t finished
c. can’t be finished
d. could finished
11. You need ____ me more time.
a. giving
b. to give
c. give
d. to giving
6. I ____ too much coffee.
a. drunk
b. drank
c. drunken
d. drinking
12. Is ___ asleep in class impolite?
a. falling
b. to fell
c. fall
d. have falling
General English
Placement Test
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Lvl 7, 250 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000| Tel +61 3 9069 2172 | email: [email protected]
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13. Tom studied medicine; ____ Jenny.
a. also
b. neither did
c. did too
d. so did
20. Where ____ last night?
a. did you go
b. you going
c. do you go
d. you went
14. Phones are ____ than before.
a. more smaller
b. more small
c. smaller
d. smallest
21. How long ____ a car?
a. have you driving
b. have you had driving
c. have you drove
d. have you been driving
15. Titanic was a ship ____ an iceberg.
a. what hits
b. who hit
c. that hit
d. which was hit
22. You need to work ____.
a. much quick
b. more quick
c. more quickly
d. much quickly
16. What’s the ____ hotel in Brisbane?
a. most cheapest
b. cheapest
c. most cheap
d. cheaper
23. Sugar ____ to make chocolate.
a. use
b. is used
c. are used
d. is using
17. You ____ smoke in here!
a. won’t to
b. can as
c. might not to
d. shouldn’t
24. If I ____, I would have told you.
a. known it
b. had known about it
c. knowing about it
d. would to know it
18. ____ jeans over there are cheaper.
a. That
b. These
c. This
d. Those
25. Robert sings ___ than his sister.
a. the best
b. better
c. as good
d. more good
19. Your glasses are ____ mine.
a. same as
b. like
c. the same
d. similar as
26. When ___, give him this message
a. Peter arrive
b. is Peter arriving
c. Peter is arrive
d. Peter arrives
General English
Placement Test
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27. We ____ her since yesterday.
a. haven’t seen
b. aren’t seeing
c. don’t see
d. won’t see
34. Michael is having his TV ____
a. to be at repair.
b. for to repair.
c. repair.
d. repaired.
28. They’re unhappy, ____
a. is they?
b. are they?
c. aren’t they?
d. isn’t they?
35. By 2030, most nuclear weapons ____
a. should have been destroyed.
b. should become destroyed.
c. should have destroyed.
d. should have become destroyed.
29. Should ___ watch TV late at night?
a. children allow
b. children be allowed to
c. children be allowed
d. children allowed to
35. Peter doesn’t like jazz. ____
a. Fran doesn’t that either.
b. Fran doesn’t too.
c. So does Fran.
d. Neither does Fran.
30. There isn’t ____ in the freezer.
a. much ice-cream
b. lots ice-cream
c. some of ice-cream
d. many ice-cream
37. She had ____ that I envied her.
a. a such nice car
b. so nice car
c. such nice the car
d. such a nice car
31. They wouldn’t sell much stock ____
a. when they didn’t display it.
b. unless they didn’t display it.
c. if they didn’t display it.
d. until they didn’t display it.
38. She is a tall woman, ___ talkative.
a. who is rather
b. whom is somewhat
c. which is kind of
d. whose is quite
32. ____ fishermen stop using nets to
catch fish, more dolphins will be killed.
a. Unless
b. Whether
c. As long as
d. Not withstanding
39. We can avoid problems ____ carefully
before going on vacation.
a. having had plan to
b. by planning
c. with planned
d. planned
33. She came to work, ____ was sick.
a. in spite of she
b. in case for she
c. even she
d. even though she
40. By next week, I ___ my assignment.
a. will finished
b. will have finished
c. had finished
d. will have been finished
General English
Placement Test
Ruby Institute Pty Ltd trading as Ruby Institute | ABN 13 612 126 986 | RTO 45148 | CRICOS 03723G
Lvl 7, 250 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000| Tel +61 3 9069 2172 | email: [email protected]
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Section 2 – Reading and Grammar Test – 15 Minutes
Tick (X) the box next to the correct answer.
1. “The clown pulled silly faces to make the children laugh.”
In that sentence, the word “silly” means:
funny
bad
tricky
scary
None of the above.
2. The following sentence does not have any punctuation: i am a good runner
Choose the option with the correct punctuation. Please note that capitalisation
must also be correct.
i am a good runner.
I am a good runner
Im a good runner.
I am a good runner.
None of the above.
3. Emily has three dogs and two cats. All are brown, but one of the dogs has spots. His name is Spot.
Which of the following is true?
Emily has three animals in total.
Emily has more cats than dogs.
One of Emily’s cats is black.
Spot does not have spots.
None of the above.
General English
Placement Test
Ruby Institute Pty Ltd trading as Ruby Institute | ABN 13 612 126 986 | RTO 45148 | CRICOS 03723G
Lvl 7, 250 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000| Tel +61 3 9069 2172 | email: [email protected]
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4. “For the little boy, a lolly was tangible, whereas a promise was not.”
In that sentence, the word “tangible” means:
basic
touchable
fit
edible
None of the above.
5. “Once Jane lifted her pen and made a start, writing the essay became easy.”
If we change the start of the sentence to “Writing the essay became easy, ____”, what
should the ending be?
after a start.
after lifting the pen.
once Jane lifted her pen and made a start.
once she lifted her pen and made a start.
None of the above.
6. The following sentence does not have any punctuation: who s going to fly qantas to sydney and
use its special return offer
Choose the option with the correct punctuation. Please note that capitalisation
must also be correct.
who’s going to fly qantas to Sydney and use it’s special return offer?
Who’s going to fly Qantas to Sydney and use its special return offer?
Who’s going to fly Qantas to Sydney and use it’s special return offer?
Who’s going to fly Qantas to Sydney and use its special return offer.
who’s going to fly Qantas to Sydney and use it’s special return offer?
General English
Placement Test
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7. “Past expereince tells me sitting in a draft you’ll catch a cold.”
Choose the option which best corrects the errors in that sentence.
Past expereince tells me if I sat in a draught you’ll catch a cold.
Past experience tells me sitting in a draught I’ll catch a cold.
Past expereince tells me, if I sit in a draught I’ll catch cold.
Past experience tells me if I sit in a draught you’ll catch a cold.
Past experience tells me, if I sit in a draught I’ll catch a cold.
8. “She done it to quick, so it came out looking rough.”
Choose the option which will best replace the underlined words in order to correct
the sentence.
She done it too quickly
She did it too quick
She did it too quickly.
She did it to quickly
None of the above.
For 9 and 10, Read the following paragraph:
Tailgating another vehicle is unsafe and illegal. Many rear-end collisions are caused by drivers
following too close to the vehicle in front of them. The rules state that a driver must keep
sufficient distance from the vehicle in front in order to stop safely and avoid a collision. Drivers
should allow a minimum two seconds’ gap between their vehicle and the one ahead. At sixty
kilometres an hour, this equates to thirty-three metres; at a hundred it equates to fifty-five
metres. More distance is needed to safely stop in rain or poor visibility.
9. According to the article, tailgating another vehicle is unsafe because ___
Choose the option that best completes the sentence above.
a gap equates to thirty meters.
collisions can be caused by drivers following too close to the vehicle in front.
it is against the rules.
the practice requires special skills.
None of the above.
General English
Placement Test
Ruby Institute Pty Ltd trading as Ruby Institute | ABN 13 612 126 986 | RTO 45148 | CRICOS 03723G
Lvl 7, 250 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000| Tel +61 3 9069 2172 | email: [email protected]
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10. “More distance is needed to safely stop in rain and poor visibility.”
From that sentence we can infer that:
people drive faster in rain and poor visibility.
when there is rain or poor visibility, a driver needs to be more careful.
braking is more effective in rain and poor visibility.
the road rules state that this must be so.
All the above.
For 11 and 12, Read the following two paragraphs:
There is a place forty kilometres north-east of Portland, Victoria, which makes for an
unusual visit. It is Lake Condah. Here are to be found remains of aboriginal
settlements: the circular stone bases of several hundred huts, rock-lined water
channels, and stone tools chipped from rock not normally found in the area. One of
the attractions of Lake Condah long ago was its fish and the most startling evidence
of aboriginal technology and engineering to be found there are the systems built to
trap fish.
The site presents a picture of a semi-settled people quite different from the stereotype
of nomadic hunter-gatherers of the desert.
11. Focusing on the first paragraph,
Lake Condah is seen as unusual, mainly because:
it is in the middle of a main town.
many of the original buildings still remain the way they were originally built.
it reveals a society that was at least partly settled and had engineering skills.
there is evidence of building stone being imported.
the lake dwellers were totally reliant on fish for a food source.
12. Focusing on the second paragraph,”
the word ‘stereotype’ is used to mean:
distant culture.
opposite picture.
electronic print version.
standard view.
None of the above.
General English
Placement Test
Ruby Institute Pty Ltd trading as Ruby Institute | ABN 13 612 126 986 | RTO 45148 | CRICOS 03723G
Lvl 7, 250 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000| Tel +61 3 9069 2172 | email: [email protected]
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Section 3 – Writing Test – 15 Minutes
Write about 150 words (plus or minus 20%) about your school life. Write about:
when you studied;
what you did at school;
your school friends; and
some important moments that you remember from your school days.
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General English
Placement Test
Ruby Institute Pty Ltd trading as Ruby Institute | ABN 13 612 126 986 | RTO 45148 | CRICOS 03723G
Lvl 7, 250 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000| Tel +61 3 9069 2172 | email: [email protected]
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General English
Placement Test
Ruby Institute Pty Ltd trading as Ruby Institute | ABN 13 612 126 986 | RTO 45148 | CRICOS 03723G
Lvl 7, 250 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000| Tel +61 3 9069 2172 | email: [email protected]
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Section 4 – Speaking and Listening Test – 15 Minutes
Preparation – 10 Minutes
Read the 6 questions below. Think about your possible answers. Write some notes for the interview.
1. Why did you come to Australia?
2. Tell me about your family.
3. What hobbies do you have?
4. What is the most difficult thing about studying English?
5. Do you have any problems that will make studying difficult for you?
6. What are your life goals?
Notes
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Interview – 5 Minutes
The assessor will interview you for about 5 minutes. The questions will be based on the ones above.
End of Placement Test
The Ruby Institute staff wishes you all the best with your studies.
