TDS® (TURKISH LANGUAGE EXAM)
WHAT IS TDS®?
Turkish Language Exam (in Turkish: Türkçe Dil Sınavı, acronymized as TDS®), is a computer-based exam that measures the four language skills in the same exam session, determines levels of individuals learning Turkish as a foreign language, allows them to enter level exams and finally provides the opportunity to certify their Turkish proficiency.
This exam system is one of the national projects of Turkey and thanks to its high-standards; it is currently being availed of by several universities and Turkish language education institutions. Hence, it has a profile that makes our country proud.
Being the leader in its field, TDS® is the end-product of efforts that utilized an academic infrastructure to build national software that would allow an online tool for quantification and assessment of teaching Turkish as a foreign language. The questions in the TDS® system have been prepared by selected question writer team who passed successfully the assessment and evaluation training provided by HG ACADEMY, and who are expert in the field of teaching Turkish as a foreign language in which they have professional work background in many universities that were pioneers of assessment and evaluation in teaching Turkish as a foreign language in Turkey.
The Curriculum of Online Teaching of Turkish as a Foreign Language in Turkey requires adaptation to the assessment-evaluation process since it is related to the teaching process. Based on this need, HG ACADEMY has prepared the TDS® Assessment and Evaluation Guidelines Manual in line with the aforementioned programs, based on the Program for Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language of Turkish Ministry of National Education (MEB) and making use of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL). Thanks to this Guidelines Manual, every question writer in our team can prepare the same high quality and different questions within the same standards. To keep the quality standard of the questions always at the highest, a comprehensive Research and Development (R&D) study was conducted to achieve that goal. The exams prepared by the TDS® expert team are submitted to the arbitration of academicians specialized in field of Turkish education, measurement and evaluation. Questions that are found appropriate by the arbitrator evaluation will also have to pass the approval of the editor in order to be considered and included in the examination system.
TDS® test system includes four different types of tests:
It is a Turkish proficiency exam that is requested by universities for the purpose of studying. There are 3 different certification exams at B1, B2 and C1 levels. The student applies for the degree he/she wants to get a certificate and takes the relevant exam.
*The content of the exam consists of 25 reading, 10 listening questions, 2 writing and 2 speaking tasks.
*Grammar skill is measured within other skill sections.
This exam, which allows students to measure their level in learning turkish, progresses with a stepped measurement system that includes questions from basic level to advanced level. After the students takes this exam, the level at which they should start their Turkish education is determined.
These are the exams applied to the students at the end of each language level during their Turkish learning course. It has been prepared for a total of five levels.
The purpose of this exam is making the students familiar with TDS® exam system before entering their certification exam.
Our online TDS® system that is developed with a professional academic infrastructure prioritizes the application security of the exam:
TDS® EXAM IMPLEMENTATION
The exam candidate can easily register to the system through the relevant exam portal website. The candidate can participate in the test with the 'username' and 'password' created before the test. The exam candidate and the exam session can also be remotely monitored by the proctor during exam with video and audio recording. For this purpose, a detailed ‘Instructions and Regulations for TDS® Exam System Implementation booklet was prepared in seven different languages, Turkish, English, Persian, Kazakh, Uzbek, Russian and Arabic, in order to prepare the exam candidate to be aware of exam implementation procedure and comply with the relevant exam rules.
You can register at https://student.turkcedilsinavi.com/. After completing your personal account registration, you can apply for the exam and purchase an exam code from the same site according to the relevant exam date. Certificate exam dates can be found on our website or social media accounts. For your registration and application questions, you can send them to the e-mail address [email protected].
For more information, you can visit TDS® website at www.turkcedilsinavi.com.
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