Headline: English skills of students in Kumamoto even worse than you thought!

Headline: English skills of students in Kumamoto even worse than you thought!

" . . . Mainichi Shimbun . . . found that 13 institutions would accept A1-level English test results for admission . . . The schools are: Obihiro . . . and Kumamoto University."

I wanted to try to find out where A1 is on the TOEFL scale and found this:

—- start quote —- There are no TOEFL score comparisons for the A-level. This is because this is a very “basic” level, and speakers at this level are probably just starting their language-learning journey. 🙂 —- end quote —- https://magoosh.com/toefl/2015/how-to-compare-the-toefl-and-cefr/

Under the old system, universities made their own tests. That made it much easier for those of us at universities to hide the extent we had lowered our standards.

– Kirk

P.S. Here’s the address of the Japanese version of the article:

https://mainichi.jp/articles/20190507/k00/00m/040/242000c

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190508/p2a/00m/0na/024000c