Language Testing in Asia

Table 6 Descriptive statistics of scores

From: Is the Common Test for University Admissions in Japan enough to measure students’ general English proficiency? The case of the TOEIC Bridge

	Common Test			TOEIC Bridge
	Reading	Listening	Total	Listening	Reading	Speaking	Writing	Total
Full score	100	100	200	50	50	50	50	200
Mean	70.05	74.13	144.17	39.30	43.70	40.05	45.69	168.73
SD	14.76	11.63	22.99	6.77	5.69	7.63	4.40	19.75
Max	100	100	200	50	50	50	50	199
Min	28	43	75	20	22	15	27	102
Skewness	−.39	−.46	−.39	−.59	−1.48	−1.13	−1.62	−.99
Kurtosis	−.11	−.04	.23	−.15	2.64	1.11	2.78	.91

SD Standard deviation

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