World leaders in digital language assessment

As your test development, publishing and technology partner, and with over 50 languages to choose from, we’ll give you the confidence and control you desire over your language assessment program. With the best team, platform, and the collaborative benefits of the fastest growing global community in testing, you’ll be glad your language exams are powered by Surpass.

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”The Surpass Platform has allowed Michigan Language Assessment to deliver digital English proficiency tests at our Authorized Test Centers as well as expand into using [third party] test centers and online proctoring services.
Fernando FleurquinDirector of Marketing, Communications, and Stakeholder Relations

Create easy-to-use authentic language tests in Surpass

Expanding language assessment across 24 languages.

In this case study, discover how telc Language Tests have used functionality in Surpass to:

Expand their exam offering to reach more regions and candidates.
Increase efficiency and reduce the logistical costs of delivering assessments.
Standardize assessments across a large and varied geographical area.

Find out more

Case study with telc: Expanding language assessment across 24 languages

Language variants in Surpass

In this video, see how language variants in the Surpass Platform can improve efficiency, allowing authors to change items once but track everywhere, for less duplication, fewer mismatches and faster item authoring cycles.

Discover how all of this is supported by bulk updates and Surpass APIs to ensure these processes can be automated.

Innovation in language assessment

Michigan Language Assessment won the inaugural Surpass Innovation Award for their innovative Met Go! Digital test in 2022.

Watch the video to see how this innovative on-screen test succeeded.

Multiple Language Support

Choose from over 50 languages for test delivery.

Secure Multi-Device & Paper Test Delivery

Author just once for online or offline delivery on desktop, laptop, tablet, BYOD or paper.

Item Banking & Authoring

From versatile item types to time-saving SME management tools, Surpass has everything you need to be in control of your items.

Test Development Services

Use our team of experts as much as you need to confidently build tests that are valid, fair, reliable and defensible.

Online Proctoring & Test Center Network

Deliver secure exams remotely or expand your candidate reach with our global Test Center Network.

Interactive Item Types

Build rich, engaging and easy to use questions for reading, writing, speaking and listening.

Scoring & Feedback

Score automatically and provide immediate feedback, or utilize on-screen grading with comprehensive results reports.

A Community of Experts

Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do in the Surpass Community.

Ready to get started with language testing in Surpass?

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“The Surpass Platform has allowed Michigan Language Assessment to deliver digital English proficiency tests at our Authorized Test Centers as well as expand into using Prometric’s test centers and online proctoring services.”
Fernando Fleurquin, Director of Marketing, Communications, and Stakeholder RelationsMichigan Language Assessment

“It [Surpass] really has given us a wonderful opportunity to be more creative, to look at new ways of testing, and to look at new ways of achieving our goals... making it more interesting for students and making it much more engaging.”
telc Language Tests

“WJEC have pushed the boundaries of onscreen summative assessment, creating some engaging and innovative question content which has been delivered in high stakes summative assessments.”
WJEC

“We chose to work with Surpass as it had a great reputation with our Centers and they provide a lot of flexibility in the way exams can be set up and delivered, allowing us to offer a broad range of assessment options. We’ve particularly found their online help and support really useful, which includes on-screen prompts which are very easy to navigate.”
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