Classroom Language Assessment

Exam Registration

Applicants should submit their applications via the online entry form. Late applications and other means of application submission will not be accepted.

Registration for the Classroom Language Assessment (CLA) (2025/26 school year) is accepted from 1 September 2025 (09:00 AM) to 15 September 2025 (11:59 PM) (tentative). Applicants should go to the online entry form to complete the registration process:

[Weblink to be announced here in due course ] Online Form

Applicants are required to upload the following documents during registration. Please note that all supporting documents should be in PDF format, each not exceeding 1 MB:

A copy of the Test Report Form of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) (Academic Module) (for applicants of the English Language subject, if applicable)
A copy of the Certificate of the Test of Proficiency in Putonghua conducted by the State Language Commission (PSC) (for applicants of the Putonghua subject, if applicable)
School Calendar
Teaching Timetable
A completed Form of 'Verification of Eligibility for the CLA'
PDF

Entry Requirements

Applicants must have met the Language Proficiency Requirement (LPR) in all the core language skills of the language subject entered:

For English, core language skills refer to—

Level 3 or above in the Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking papers in the Language Proficiency Assessment (LPA) (English Language); OR
an overall band score of 7.5 or above with no individual band scores (i.e. the Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking band scores) below 7.0 as obtained in the same Test Report Form in the Academic Module of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS)^{NOTE 1}.
(^{NOTE 1} The aforesaid IELTS results must be obtained on or after 1 September 2023 and are still valid as at 1 September 2025. This is not applicable to applicants who sat the CLA (English Language) in the 2024/25 school year, who are deemed to have met the LPR (English Language) in the core language skills.)

For Putonghua, core language skills refer to—

Level 3 or above in the Listening and Recognition, Pinyin and Speaking papers in the LPA (Putonghua); OR
Grade A, Level 2 or above in the Test of Proficiency in Putonghua conducted by the State Language Commission (PSC).

Applicants applying to take the CLA must be teachers in public-sector schools, Direct Subsidy Scheme schools, or local private primary / secondary day schools offering a formal curriculum, who

are teaching English Language / Putonghua in the 2025/26 school year; OR

attempted but failed the CLA.

Entry Notes

Notes for Applicants ( to be released in August 2025 )

Reference Materials

Handbooks
- Classroom Language Assessment (English Language) Handbook
  PDF
- Classroom Language Assessment (Putonghua) Handbook
  PDF
Slides from CLA Briefing Sessions
- CLA (English Language) (2025/26 school year) Briefing Session (to be released in November 2025)
- CLA (Putonghua) (2025/26 school year) Briefing Session (to be released in November 2025)

Enquiries

For enquiries concerning Classroom Language Assessment, please contact the Language Teacher Qualifications Team, EDB at 2892 5783.