A warning for those who wants to do ACTFL tests with LTI

[tak916]

Hey folks, I recently received a reply about I should open a new thread to share my experience with LTI, I'll just share my experience for those who wants to get 6UD+6LD credit as a reminder.
I registered my Chinese WPT test few days ago and signed in to their ProProctor software 2 hours before my log in window(you can actually take the test like 6 hours before the appointment window), the so-called "readiness agent" will scan your room and they will literally look into every corner of your room. I admit my room is kinda mess, so I switched to my parents' room and the onboarding process was hell. After an hour I was able to log into my test, there was a pretest section to test your keyboard, I just skipped the process and that was my biggest mistake.
When I enter the test, I found my Chinese keyboard was not supported by ProProctor but there indeed is a Simplified Chinese hint on the bottom right corner, so I asked the proctor about the problem, she was like "You should stop the test and ask for technical help."
Then I quit the program and asked their customer service which is soooo annoying, there is indeed a automated bot and if you wanna switch to human representative, you should select the worst answers. If you chose a problem-resolved option, you have to start all over again.
At last I had to send emails to their customer support, and the best part? They re-arranged my exam and promised my input method would surely work. 
When I got everything ready on the rearranged date, there was not a single hint telling me how to enter the exam and their customer service were sleeping due to the time difference.
I was totally pissed off and asked them to give me a full refund and because I was in a rush to get the degree, I just ordered a new OPIc before they replied. On the second day they replied with they could not give me a refund due to I already accessed the content of the test. Fortunately, the experience with OPIc was wayyyyy better than WPT and I'm waiting for the final score.


To summarize, if you are a foreigner wants to take the language test, do the OPI or OPIc, the OPIc is just a computer based version of OPI. I would recommend OPI because even if you are not comfortable talking to a real person like I do, the readiness process will also involve talking to a real person. But DO NOT DO WPT or the reading or listening, your keyboard might NOT be compatible with the ProProctor software and it would waste you a lot of time and money, and the listening or reading would not give you 12 credits.

[Avidreader]

Thanks for sharing your experience and I really hope you can still do the writing test since you spent the money. Did you feel the OPIc exam was easy the way it felt easy for me?

Can't wait to know your OPIc score! In my experience, the reading exam was hard. They show you test excerpts of some really obscure science journal text that even the average college educated native speaker will struggle reading because it has tons of unusual words that aren’t in common language use. I only scored an upper middle despite in every way being a C1 in the language. I don't have experience with the listening exam.

[tak916]

Thanks for sharing your experience and I really hope you can still do the writing test since you spent the money. Did you feel the OPIc exam was easy the way it felt easy for me?

Can't wait to know your OPIc score! In my experience, the reading exam was hard. They show you test excerpts of some really obscure science journal text that even the average college educated native speaker will struggle reading because it has tons of unusual words that aren’t in common language use. I only scored an upper middle despite in every way being a C1 in the language. I don't have experience with the listening exam.

Since I think I might get a advanced or superior score in OPIc I'll just skip the writing, I'm native in Mandarin but the toughest level was not that easy to get full score for even a native speaker, it asks questions to let you give insights into up-to-date social problems which is good, but some questions are a little bit complex and some are not that suitable for Chinese people to answer due to our censorship, it would be ideal to get 12 creds but if not I'll be happy to take 6 creds away.

[bjcheung77]

There are multiple options to getting the language credits towards institutions that require a language class... ACTFL is just one option of alternative credit, for those who know French, German, Spanish, you've got the CLEP, if you are in high school, you've got the AP languages, then there are the community college dual enrollment classes that may offer a language, the list continues to grow with alternative credit options as well...