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Scheduling external assessments

External assessment dates 2009/10

This table shows the external assessment windows for Breakthrough, Preliminary, Intermediate and Advanced Stages of Asset Languages in 2009/10:

Series	Deadline for request of Speaking test materials	Final entry deadline (all skills)	Deadline for return of Speaking tests	Testing Window begins (Listening, Reading and Writing)	Testing Window ends (Listening, Reading and Writing)	Results and certificates issue (all skills)	Deadline for Post Results Services requests
Nov 2009	05/10/09	21/10/09	23/11/09	23/11/09	11/12/09	04/02/10	05/03/10
Mar 2010		21/01/10	01/03/10	01/03/10	19/03/10	29/04/10	28/05/10
May 2010		21/03/10	26/04/10	26/04/10	14/05/10	24/06/10	23/07/10
June 2010		04/05/10	14/06/10	14/06/10	02/07/10	19/08/10	20/09/10

Speaking test examiner and candidate booklets for the whole year will be despatched after receiving centres’ speaking test materials request by 05/10/09. As well as requesting speaking test materials, centres also need to make final entries for their candidates taking speaking tests.

Centres that join the Asset Languages scheme during the academic year and wish to make entries for speaking should request speaking test materials as soon as possible. The materials will normally be despatched to these centres 4 weeks after receiving the request.

Listening, reading and writing test materials for each series will normally be despatched (on the basis of final entries) 7 to 10 days before a testing window begins.

This table showing the 2009/10 timetable for the first four stages of Asset Languages has also been provided as a PDF document for you to print out:

External Assessment Dates 2009/10

There have been some changes to the timings of the series in 2009/10, please see the news article or download the notice below for details.

External Assessment Dates - notice to centres 2009/10

Please note there is a separate timetable for the Proficiency and Mastery Stages, which are only available in the June series.

External assessment duration times

The following table shows the duration times of each Asset Languages external assessment by skill and stage:

Stage Skill	Breakthrough	Preliminary	Intermediate	Advanced	Proficiency	Mastery
Listening	Primary: Approx 20 mins Secondary/Post-16: Approx 25 mins (including transfer time)	Approx 30 mins (including transfer time)	Approx 30 mins (including transfer time)	Approx 40 mins (including transfer time)	Approx 60 mins (including transfer time)	Approx 60 mins (including transfer time)
Speaking*	Part 1: 3 mins Part 2: 1 min	Part 1: 4 mins Part 2: 2 mins	Part 1: 5 mins Part 2: 3 mins	Part 1: 6 mins Part 2: 7 mins	Part 1: 7 mins Part 2: 8 mins	Part 1: 7 mins Part 2: 8 mins
Reading	30 mins	40 mins	40 mins	50 mins	1 hr 30 mins	1 hr 45 mins
Writing	20 mins	25 mins	40 mins	60 mins	1 hr 30 mins	1 hr 30 mins

*Parts 1 and 2 of the speaking test for Breakthrough, Preliminary and Intermediate Stages can be conducted separately as only Part 1 should be recorded. The Advanced speaking test should be conducted in one sitting as both parts must be recorded.

For details of which languages are available at each stage, see the Availability page.