This test reflects best practices in the field of language assessment and is innovative in its construct and design. NEWL Korean is designed to provide a set of measures of functional proficiency in Korean for use as a predictive assessment for continued language study beyond high school. The exam consists of three subtests, all of which assess functional proficiency or performance in Korean within interpersonal, interpretive, presentational modes of communication, based on authentic text and speech samples. NEWL Korean test is a remotely proctored, monitored online assessment requiring approximately one hour for administration. Please note that we at American Councils Assessment emphasize drawing exam materials directly from the cultures and contexts from which we are testing, so we would advise all instructors to have their students read and listen to authentic material (books, news reports, TV shows, etc.) and to prepare them to answer questions drawn from those sources.

To review those sample items, please visit our NEWL sample items webpage at.

We currently have a database of sample items for NEWL Korean pulled directly from previous exams, which we are continuously expanding.

Korean keyboard predictive text example