| Low Level |
Average Level |
High Level |
| The vocabulary volume (professional units) is insufficient to provide an elementary answer to a question in a specialty. |
The vocabulary volume (professional units) is almost sufficient to provide a complete and meaningful answer to the question in the specialty. |
The vocabulary volume (professional units) is sufficient to provide a complete meaningful answer to the question in the specialty. |
| The answer contains a significant amount of gross errors (such as irregular verb form, mistakes in the sentence word order) that may interfere with direct understanding, or errors that impede answer understanding. |
The answer contains single gross errors (such as irregular verb form, mistakes in the sentence word order) or a small number of minor errors that do not interfere with direct understanding. |
The answer does not contain gross errors, but contains single minor errors (for example, misuse of articles, prepositions, number of nouns, etc.). |
| Speaking fluency is unnatural and is characterized by very frequent uncertainty cases. The pronunciation is incomprehensible or slurred. |
Speaking fluency is natural, but characterized by infrequent cases of uncertainty.Pronunciation can cause some difficulties for direct understanding. |
Speaking fluency is natural, isolated instances of uncertainty are possible.Pronunciation does not impede understanding. |
