Beaconhouse English Language Test

The Beaconhouse School System prides itself on being a primary supplier of educational excellence in an English-medium setting. This promise is made by the System and provided by its teachers to ensure that our students are competent and capable of handling themselves in any given environment. In order to keep this promise to its various stakeholders, Beaconhouse has set standard benchmarks for the English Language proficiency of our teachers to be at the upper intermediate level as a pre-requisite for employment. Thus enabling the teachers to be linguistically equipped to tackle the daily needs of communicating with their students, parents, peers and other members of their professional networks. "The Beaconhouse English Language Test (BELT) has been thus designed to measure the English Language skills of the teachers against a standard benchmark." The BELT is administered in five separate sections: Speaking, Listening, Reading, Mechanics of English, and Writing. Speaking and Writing have 25% weightage because production skills are the most important skills required in the classroom. The weightage for Listening 20%, Reading 15% and Mechanics of English 15%. There are eight possible grades in BELT: 3 passing grade as recommended by the ELD recommendation (C1, B2+, and B2) one border line B1+ (which is at the discretion of the school head) and 4 failing grades (B1-A1). The final result is based on the candidate’s aggregated score across all 5 sections.