2025–2026 Academic Year Information about the Compulsory Preparatory Proficiency Exam (For Students of the English Language Teaching Department and the International Relations (English) Department)

10/09/2025

2025–2026 Academic Year Information on the Compulsory Preparatory Proficiency Exam (For Students of the English Language Teaching Department and the International Relations (English) Department)

For students of the English Language Teaching and International Relations (English) departments, the compulsory English proficiency exam applied at the beginning of the academic year before preparatory education is a 3 (three) session exam. The scope of the sessions is given below:

• Session: Grammar and Vocabulary + Reading
• Session: Listening and Writing
• Session: Speaking

In the first session of the exam, multiple-choice questions are asked that measure students' English grammar and reading skills.

For English Language Teaching students in this section, 15 multiple-choice questions testing grammar and vocabulary, 3 cloze tests (15 questions), and 10 sentence completion questions are asked, as well as 20 multiple-choice questions measuring reading skills.

For International Relations students, 40 multiple-choice questions testing grammar and vocabulary and 20 paragraph questions measuring reading skills are asked.

1st Session

Content	Questions	Duration
English Grammar (Use of English)	40
Reading	20
Total Duration		English Language Teaching: 90 min International Relations: 80 min

2nd Session

The second session consists of listening and writing sections. Listening includes 25–30 questions of different types (single-choice, multiple-choice, gap-fill, matching). 3–4 different recordings are played (at least twice each).

Writing has 2 parts:
• Part 1: Writing a response to a given situation (email, request, complaint).
• Part 2: Writing a paragraph (for International Relations students) or a composition (for English Language Teaching students).

The 1st and 2nd sessions are held on the same day (morning and afternoon).

Content	Details	Duration
Listening	25 Q (IR) / 30 Q (ELT) 3–4 recordings, played twice	30–35 minutes
Writing	2 sections Part 1: Response to situation Part 2: Paragraph (IR) / Composition (ELT)	IR: 50 min ELT: 80 min
Total	Listening + Writing	IR: ~75 min ELT: ~120 min

3rd Session

The final session (speaking) is held the day after the written exam. Students are called individually or in pairs. The exam consists of 3 parts:

• Part 1: General questions
• Part 2: Preparing notes on a given topic (1 min) and speaking about it (1 min)
• Part 3: Discussion with the examiner (Q&A)

Duration: approx. 8–10 minutes per student.

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