INTERNATIONAL BALKAN UNIVERSITY

Midterm Exams

Midterm Exam is an exam administered at the end of the 1st semester that assesses the achievement
and the language proficiency of the learner that was acquired during the 1st semester.

It is not useful only for the students, but for the teachers as well. Teachers get familiar with the students’ progress
and improvement and can also measure their own work. If there’s anything that doesn’t respond
to the students’ needs can easily be noticed, detected and later changed.

It also serves as a tool to enforce students’ responsibility by being one of the preconditions for the Proficiency Exam I.

Namely, students need 50% of the total points in order to have the right to enter Proficiency Exam I.

Midterm Exam consists of 5 parts:

(1) Use of English (grammar & vocabulary) - measured in various gap fill, multiple-choice cloze, open cloze, word formations and key
      word/ full sentence transformations;

(2) Listening -multiple-choice cloze, open cloze, sentence completion, and true/ false;

(3) Reading - multiple choice, comprehension questions, and true/false;

(4) Writing -a paragraph, and a composition/ a letter.

(5) Speaking - questions, photographs to talk about, a two-way conversation, and a short monologue

It takes:

Use of English (grammar & vocabulary)   40 min --- weight   20%

Listening                                                          20 min --- weight   20%

Reading                                                           30 min --- weight   20%

Writing                                                              30 min --- weight   20%

Speaking                                                         10 min --- weight   20%

Total                                                                 2h 10 min