Advantages and Disadvantages of C-test

This is a post about advantages and disadvantages of C-TEST, not Cloze test, okay? They are almost the same but actually they are different. Well, you will find out later.

Advantages of C-test

• In C-test, a variety of texts are recommended. A short text can be formed a large numbers of items.
• The correction of the task can be objectively scored as it is rare to have more than one answer.
• The results are encouraging in terms of reliability and validity.

Disadvantages of C-Test

• The face validity is low because there are many blanks.
• If the isolated words are difficult, the test takers concentrate their mind in  guessing the vocabulary instead of comprehending the text.

p/s: hopefully this will help you in your ESL class. As usual, any comments or questions, just drop them below okay. Thanks. :)