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Exam preparation material - Place your book order before the summer holidays!

Have you not yet placed your book order for your class after the summer holidays? Have a look at our online shop and reserve the books for your students now! Preparation Centres get a 20 % discount. If you are one of our Cambridge English Exam Preparation Centres you have a 20% discount on all Cambridge University Press publications. Our Preparation Centres also profit from a lot of free material such as handbooks for teachers and leaflets. In order to benefit from this offer as a Preparation Centre, just enter the school’s name in the comment section when placing an order through our Online Shop: https://shop.swiss-exams.ch/. If your favourite book is not online, please get in touch with us by email and we will order it for you. Are you not yet a „Preparation Centre“? It is... » read more

19.06.2019 swiss exams, Cambridge exams, preparation material

30 Year Anniversary of the Cambridge Exam Centre in Winterthur

This year we are celebrating our 30th Centre Anniversary. We would like to share some details of our history and thank everyone for this success! 1989 During this year, Lori Kaithan – CEO of Swiss Exams today, started her career with Cambridge English exams. She was first an invigilator, then a supervisor and finally a Local Secretary, the title of the job at the time. She started the centre in her home and later had a small office in the town where she lives so that she could be near her children when she taught or worked for Cambridge English. 1996 The office was moved to Winterthur as Lori Kaithan was then appointed as Local Secretary for the city and Canton of Zurich. Zurich was three times the size of Winterthur but with the support of Cambridge, many lovely... » read more

19.06.2019 swiss exams, Cambridge exams, anniversary

Research Notes Issue 68: Independent vocabulary learning: A ‘teacherless’ approach

The following gives you an insight into independent vocabulary learning. An interesting article from the Research Notes of Cambridge Assessment English. AIDA SAHUTOGLU ST GILES LONDON CENTRAL Introduction Nowadays, learner autonomy (LA) seems to be widely promoted in the EFL world through offering students a variety of independent learning strategies (LS). In my teaching experience and through my involvement in study skills co-ordination at St Giles London Central, I discovered that although most learners initially seem motivated to apply these techniques, very few of them adopt new study skills permanently. One of the reasons for such rejection is that in the modern classroom setting, methodology and teacher-centred coursebooks have led to many students disregarding the ‘... » read more

19.06.2019 Cambridge exams, swiss exams, research notes

How to use the EnglishProfile.org

The EnglishProfile.org was introduced at our annual Cambridge English Spring Seminar. In case you missed it, you now have the chance to get some video tutorials on this helpful online tool. English Profile enables instructors and educationalists to understand what the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) means for English. It portrays what parts of English are ordinarily learned at each CEFR level. This tells educators, educational programme designers, course-book writers, and test scholars what performance can be expected at which level. This website contains an abundance of data about English Profile, including two creative online devices: English Vocabulary Profile Online English Grammar Profile Online These are accessible databases that give you free access... » read more

19.06.2019 Cambridge exams, swiss exams, english profile

TLC Sprachschule and Swiss Exams – a sustainable partnership (video)

TLC Sprachschule is one of the our successful Language Testing Competence Centres (LTCCs). They regularly offer the German language assessment test called Goethe-Test PRO to their clients. Watch this video to find out what an exam session looks like! “TLC Sprachschule has been partnering with Swiss Exams for over 20 years now. We began with the Cambridge Exams and added the BULATS tests in 2009. We have been offering Goethe-Test PRO and Linguaskill since April 2018. The change to Goethe-Test PRO from BULATS German did prove to be somewhat challenging from a technical standpoint in the beginning, but after meeting with Karin and Jacqueline from Swiss Exams the issues were addressed and resolved very quickly. It is a pleasure dealing with them. They are very friendly and react quickly... » read more

19.06.2019 swiss exams, LTCC, goethe test pro

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Swiss Exams provides Services for International Exam Boards

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Exam preparation material - Place your book order before the summer holidays!

30 Year Anniversary of the Cambridge Exam Centre in Winterthur

Research Notes Issue 68: Independent vocabulary learning: A ‘teacherless’ approach

How to use the EnglishProfile.org

TLC Sprachschule and Swiss Exams – a sustainable partnership (video)

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