Monthly Archives: July 2009

Some Quality Control would not Hurt!…

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: July 29, 2009

Finally Maggie in NYC got her results in both reading comprehension and written expression… It was about time! She waited more than one month… actually she got the results of her oral interaction test long before and this exam was the very last she took… I guess the results had been in for quite a [...]

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Ponctuation & co

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: July 26, 2009

First I want to share the latest news with you… Nicholas took his oral test over the phone in Vancouver last Friday: he said it went fairly well given that the assessor led him in the fourth part of the exam (which was not the case when he had been assessed a couple of months [...]

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So sad… yet so true!

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: July 23, 2009

Yesterday I got an email from Seema who had taken her written expression test on Tuesday… She got the B she needs to comply with her position language requirements (and with quite a good margin)!… A week before she had taken the reading comprehension test and she had not received a B… certainly not because [...]

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