College English Test-Spoken English Test (CET-SET)

The College English Test (CET) is a national standardized English language test for college and university students in China, which has been in operation since 1987 as an assessment tool to see whether these students have met the curriculum requirements of their compulsory College English course as specified in the College English Teaching Syllabus (State Education Commission, 1985, 1986; Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education, 1999) and College English Curriculum Requirements (Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education, 2007). The CET measures the four major language skills separately, i.e., listening, reading, and writing in the CET and speaking in the CET Spoken English Test (CET-SET). The CET -SET, which is the focus of this review, currently has an annual test population of over one million (before the pandemic).