All new students (Master, Doctoral, CAS, Master’s leading to Doctoral, Diploma, Dual-Degree, Professional Master or Certificate leading to Master) who submitted a certificate of English medium of instruction or who have taken the online EET – must take the AIT Writing Placement Test (AWPT) to validate their writing scores and to be able to register for classes.
The AWPT is a 75 minutes test consisting of a description of data (75-100 words), and an essay (250 – 350 words). These two tasks are scored on a nine point scale.
For New students in 2020 August Semester
Date: 4 – 6 August 2020
Time: 8:30 and 10:00 (AIT student ID number (i.e. st12…..) is REQUIRED)
You must bring your student ID card or passport with your student ID number to the Milton Bender Auditorium, ITServe Building to take the test. Be on time; no one will be admitted late.
Students may check their English score on the SIS (http://sis.ait.ac.th or http://somsis.ait.ac.th).
Students with scores 5.0 and 5.5 on the AIT academic writing placement test (AWPT) or its equivalent are required to attend mandatory English writing courses and complete EL19 with a passing grade or obtain the AWPT score of 6 or higher in order to register for thesis, dissertation, research study or project. Students will need to pay a registration fee for EL courses before they can attend. The EL course level will be automatically assigned based on a student’s current English score:
- 5.0 – EL15 Intermediate English Composition
- 5.5 – EL19 Academic and Technical Writing
EL courses will be graded as Pass or Incomplete. This grade will appear on transcripts, but will not count towards a student’s GPA. Those who attend less than 80% of their EL classes will not be allow to take the final exam of the course. Therefore, passing of an EL course requires both participation and performance improvement.