Duolingo released news that it would test water on the mobile end of the standardized language test

Absrtact: In April, Duolingo released a message saying that it would test the standard language test on the mobile end, hoping to solve the problem of space distance and cheating by means of technology to greatly reduce the cost of the language test (meaning TOEFL and IELTS test fee

In April, Duolingo released news that it would test the standard language test on the mobile end, hoping to solve the problem of space distance and cheating by means of technology to greatly reduce the cost of the language test (meaning that the TOEFL and IELTS costs are too high). Today, Duolingo is officially online with Test Center, which allows users to duolingo standardized language exams in Android and Chrome.

I tried to go through the Duolingo test process, first it will require you to stay in a solitary space, turn on the camera, share your screen, and do not allow little gestures and walk around.

The process of examination is not long, only 20 minutes, the type of question only dictation sentences, read sentences, pick the correct words and cloze four types of questions, the question will continue to switch back and forth until the end of the exam. It is said that the difficulty is based on the students ' level of adaptation, so the overall test time can be compressed to 20 minutes, I personally feel that the first level of the two questions after the difficulty really rose a lot.

But after answering all the questions, you can't see the results immediately. The results will be sent back within 48 hours after the test center has verified that the candidate's identity card and the test video have confirmed no cheating.

According to my experience, although duolingo for students to reduce geographical constraints can be conveniently at home exams, but the Duolingo side still need to hire a large number of personnel to carry out the examination of the test video (the visual should not be able to capture the image recognition technology to cheat), this should be a small labor costs. In addition, whether each university can accept the Duolingo examination to give the ability attestation, still need to wait for a period of time observation.

Duolingo Test Center Promotional video is as follows: