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PCAT

For organizations

Does your team’s English get through at work?

PCAT is not a replacement for the English score you already use. Keep TOEIC or any other standard in place, and add a four-skills check of how employees and candidates communicate in tasks close to real work — meetings, emails, chats and a spoken role-play. Invitations, credits and results are handled in the organization portal.

  • Four skills
  • About 60 minutes
  • Results within 48 hours
  • Invoice payment
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The gap

Does an English score tell you how someone will communicate at work?

Work in English takes more than correct grammar and a large vocabulary. People need to follow a discussion, get the information that matters across, answer questions, and rephrase when they are misunderstood. PCAT includes these in the assessment: through tasks close to real work — meetings, emails, chats and spoken exchanges — you can see how someone uses English.

What PCAT adds

What does PCAT measure that other scores may not show?

Whether the message got through

In speaking and writing, 85% of the score is communication: whether the task was done, whether the message could be understood, whether it suited the situation and audience, how it was organized, and whether the person could rephrase or recover. Language quality makes up the other 15%.

Tasks close to real work

Reading work chat and short specifications, listening to meetings with three or four speakers, calls and announcements, writing chat replies and emails, and a multi-turn spoken role-play in which the other side responds.

Four skills in about 60 minutes

Listening and Reading are adaptive, which keeps the test short. It is taken online on a computer, with no test centre and no scheduling, and results arrive within 48 hours.

Results you can act on

An overall CEFR-aligned level, a level for each skill, dimension-level scores with feedback for speaking and writing, and a study plan — for each person, and by department in the portal.

See a sample score report →Scoring →

Use cases

Where can organizations use PCAT?

Before English training

Find out where each person stands in all four skills, choose who needs training and place them in the right class. The dimension-level results show what each person should work on.

Roles that use English every day

Alongside your existing criteria, check how candidates for overseas assignments or English-heavy roles handle meetings, emails and spoken exchanges.

Hiring and internal moves

Add a four-skills view of practical English to CVs, interviews and existing scores, as one more source of information for roles that involve English meetings, emails and calls.

Before and after training

Take PCAT before and after a programme to see how skill and dimension results changed. Talk to us about how to set this up.

PCAT works alongside TOEIC and other tests you already use. You do not need to change existing HR standards to start.

Organization portal

What can administrators do in the organization portal?

Administrators sign in to the organization portal to run PCAT for their organization, from inviting test takers to reviewing results.

Test periods

Set up a test period for a group or department, with a deadline and reminders to people who have not taken the test yet.

Test takers

Register test takers one by one or in bulk from a spreadsheet, and invite them by email.

Credits

Allocate the organization’s credits to test takers. Set a limit per department and see usage by department.

Results

See results and score reports for each person and CEFR distributions by department, and export them as CSV or Excel files.

Administrators and security

Give administrators Owner, Manager or Viewer roles, require two-step verification, and review the activity log.

Organizations see scores, CEFR levels, skill-level results, score reports and a record of the test conditions. The text of answers, audio recordings and video from the test are not shared with organizations.

Getting started

How does an organization start using PCAT?

  1. 01Tell us what you want to assess, for how many people and when. We suggest how to use PCAT and send a quote.
  2. 02After signing up, your organization receives its credits. Payment is by invoice.
  3. 03Administrators invite test takers in the organization portal and allocate credits to them.
  4. 04Test takers sit the test on a computer (Chrome, Edge or Safari) in about 60 minutes. Phones and tablets are not supported.
  5. 05Results arrive within 48 hours. Review and export them in the portal.

Pricing

How much does PCAT cost for organizations?

Each attempt uses one credit. For individuals, one attempt is JPY 5,500 including tax. Organizations pay by invoice, and we quote pricing and payment terms according to the number of people and attempts.

See individual pricing →

FAQ

Questions from organizations

Does PCAT replace TOEIC or other English tests?

No. PCAT is not designed on the assumption that you drop an English test you already use. If TOEIC or another test is built into your HR standards, you can keep it and use PCAT as an additional way to check how people use English in practical work tasks, across all four skills. The two measure different things: a listening and reading score reflects accurate understanding, while PCAT puts whether the message got through and the task got done first. Using both gives you a fuller picture than either alone.

What results can the organization see?

For people who took the test while belonging to your organization, administrators can see the score, overall and skill-level CEFR levels, the score report and a record of the test conditions, such as whether a camera was used. The text of answers, audio recordings, transcripts and video are not shared with organizations. Access is limited by administrator role, and viewing and exporting results are recorded in the activity log.

Where and how do test takers sit the test?

Online, on a desktop or laptop computer with Chrome, Edge or Safari and a microphone. Phones and tablets are not supported. There is no test centre and no fixed date: test takers start whenever they are ready within the period you set. A camera is optional; if it is on, the session is recorded and the report notes it. If a test taker is interrupted, they can resume within 24 hours.

Can the questions be tailored to our industry or roles?

Not yet. We plan to let organizations run PCAT with topics matched to their industry and job roles, while keeping the same score scale so that results stay comparable. If this matters to you, tell us about your industry and roles when you contact us.

How do we pay?

Organizations pay by invoice. After signing up, credits are added to your organization, and administrators allocate them to test takers in the portal. Pricing and payment terms depend on the number of people and attempts; contact us for a quote.

Talk to us about your organization’s needs

Tell us what you want to assess, for how many people and when. We will suggest how to use PCAT and send a quote.

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