The DET is an English Language test set by the Centre for English Language Communication. It must be taken by all international graduate students from non-English medium universities whose faculties require them to take it.

The purposes of the DET are to:

• determine which students will benefit from a basic level writing module before proceeding to an intermediate module.
• determine which students will benefit from an intermediate level writing module before taking an advanced level writing module to help them with their thesis writing.
• identify which students may be exempted from taking the above-mentioned modules.

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What do the DET results mean?

Results from the DET will determine whether students should be placed in a Graduate English Course module, and, if so, which one, or whether they should be exempt from the course. However, ES5001B (Speaking & Listening) is an elective module open to all foreign graduate students from non-English medium universities regardless of whether they take the DET or not.  

The tables below show the progression of modules that students should take depending on which Faculty they are from.

Note: Any international graduate student is allowed to take ES5001B (Speaking & Listening) as an elective course, but if they are required to take the DET they must do that first and complete ES5000 if that is required.

For YLLSoM and those FASS students required to take ES5001B