Dear international students,
ISTEP-IS (English Proficiency Exam for newly-registered international students) for GRADUATE STUDENTS will be held next week (Friday, January 26, 2024). Other details such as exam place and start time will be announced later.
Students should be in their classrooms and ready to take the exams at least 15 minutes before the exam. Please bring exam materials such as a pencil, eraser, etc. You must also present an identity card (Student Card, National Identity Card, Passport, Driver's License, etc.) at the beginning of the exam.
On the exam date, you will first take an online Cambridge English Placement Test (CEPT Reading and Listening) at school. Then, you will take a pen-and-paper writing exam (just after the computer one) to prove your Academic Writing skills. In the Writing Exam, you will be asked to write an academic essay composed of at least four paragraphs, including an introduction, two body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Your essays will be graded based on content, organization, coherence, vocabulary range and accuracy, grammatical range and accuracy, and punctuation. Please make sure to take both exams (CEPT and Writing) on the exam day. If you do not take the writing exam, your writing score will be calculated as 0.
The results will be announced on this website (https://yabancidiller.istinye.edu.tr/en/).
P.S. You can take this exam only if you are a newly-registered graduate student.