WHY DO I HAVE TO TAKE THE ENGLISH PLACEMENT TEST? CAN I TAKE IT ONLINE?

As required by the rigorous curriculum guidelines of the Ontario Ministry of Education, every international student who wishes to take an ESL credit course or a UP course must write an English Placement Test to determine their level of English Language Proficiency. Unless you have studied for more than four years in a government-accredited high school or for two years in a government-accredited post-secondary education institution where English is the official language of instruction, you can not be exempted from this requirement.

Therefore, you will have to take the English Placement Test ifyou are an international student coming from a school where the language of instruction is NOT English and yet you can not produce any certificate of an internationally recognized English test as proof of your satisfying the requirement of the English Proficiency prior to your admission.

The English Placement Test cannot be taken online because of administrative reasons.