Third-year junior high school students correctly answered only 12.4 percent of questions, on average, on the government’s nationwide English-speaking test, while 60 percent of students scored a ...

Students headed to nearly 200 testing sites on Nov. 27 across Tokyo to take the first English speaking test with the results forming part of the entrance exams for metropolitan high schools.

The Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) will be held six times next year, with the inaugural addition in the second half of the year of a speaking section to join those of reading, listening and ...