Saturday, March 12, 2011

The MUET Components (and Papers)

To all the candidates who are non pre-university students (private candidates), please pay attention to this. It is important to take note of this as you may miss this information due to one reason or the other.

The term Private candidates (non school-goers) includes working people, university students, job applicants, people advancing in career mobility (eg. getting a job promotion), those taking the MUET for certain purposes and those people who are simply aspiring to move forward in knowledge. This is an overview of the MUET test components. 

As we all know the MUET comes in four papers for each of its repective components.

Test Component
The MUET comprises four components:
Listening (800/1), Speaking (800/2), Reading (800/3) and Writing (800/4). The duration and weighting of each component are as follows:

Paper Code Paper Duration Weighting
800/1
Listening
30 minutes
15%
800/2
Speaking
30 minutes
15%
800/3
Reading
90 minutes
40%
800/4
Writing
90 minutes
30%

Test Scores
The Test scores are reported as follow:
Test Component Maximum Score Obtained Score
LISTENING
45
SPEAKING
45
READING
120
WRITING
90
AGGREGATED SCORE
300
Band Achieved


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