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Refer to the pages that follow for a more detailed description of this certificate and the degree of skill related to the level of certificate you attained

CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT

This is to certify that

John Smith

achieved the qualifying score to attain

Level 1 Proficiency

on the ETS® Proficiency Profile assessment on

July 15, 2013

Authentication Code

_ Kurt M Landgraf President and Chief Executive Officer Educational Testing Service

Kurt Landgraf

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Level 1 Proficiency (ETS Proficiency Profile score 430-449)

Individuals taking ETS Proficiency Profile are asked to demonstrate a wide variety of abilities across four skills domains – Mathematics, Writing, and Reading/Critical Thinking These domains are further categorized by levels of difficulty

Individuals scoring in the Level 1 Proficiency range tend to demonstrate the following abilities:

Reading

• Recognize factual material explicitly presented in a reading passage

• Understand the meaning of particular words or phrases in the context of a reading passage

Writing

• Recognize agreement among basic grammatical elements (e.g., nouns, verbs, pronouns and conjunctions) • Recognize appropriate transition words

• Recognize incorrect word choice • Order sentences in a paragraph • Order elements in an outline

Mathematics

• Solve word problems that would most likely be solved by arithmetic and do not involve conversion of units or proportionality

• Solve problems involving the informal properties of numbers and operations including positive and negative numbers, whole numbers and fractions (including conversions of common fractions to percent)

• Solve problems requiring a general understanding of square roots and the squares of numbers • Solve a simple equation or substitute numbers into an algebraic expression

• Find information from a graph

For more information about the skills and concepts that the ETS™ Proficiency Profile was designed to measure, visit

www.ets.org/proficiencyprofile

EPP Certificate – Page 2 (for test takers attaining the Level 1 Proficiency level)