You should also try the following self assessment to determine your proficiency level :

1. Reading comprehension - How well you understand written text or sentences and paragraphs?

Rate yourself through these examples :

Low : You need step-by-step instructions for filling out a form or an application.
Medium : You can easily understand a memo from your manager describing a new policy.
High : You can understand a medical procedure described in a scientific journal.


2. Active listening - How well you listen and understand what others are saying?

Rate yourself through these examples :

Low : You can take order from a customer.
Medium : You can easily answer questions about a loan query.
High : You can act as a judge in a matter of complex legal disagreement.


3. Speaking - How well you can talk to others to provide them the information they want?

Rate yourself through these examples :

Low : Greeting tourists and explaining tourist attractions.
Medium : Interviewing people applying for a job to know about their work history.
High : Arguing a complicated legal case before a Court.


4. Critical Thinking - How well you can analyze the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches.

Rate yourself through these examples :

Low : Determining whether or not an employee has a good excuse for being late
Medium : Evaluating customer complaints and deciding how to respond.
High : Writing a legal brief challenge for a federal law.


5. Active learning - How you find ways to understand new information.

Rate yourself through these examples :

Low : Reading an article on a new business and assessing about related job opportunities.
Medium : Determining how changes in menu rates will affect a restaurant's budget.
High : Identifying the implications of a new scientific discovery on the design of a product.


6. Learning strategies - How effectively you use different ways to learn or teach things.

Rate yourself through these examples :

Low : Learning a different way to do something from a co-worker/colleague.
Medium : Identifying another approach to help students who are having difficulty in understanding a particular problem.
High : Applying the principles of educational psychology in developing new methods of teaching.


7. Monitoring - How well you determine the effectiveness of something that is being learned or done.

Rate yourself through these examples :

Low : Proofreading a written article and correcting it.
Medium : Monitoring and rescheduling a meeting’s agenda to make sure all the important topics are covered.
High : Reviewing a company's business model and making plans to increase its productivity.


8. Writing - How well you communicate with others in writing.

Rate yourself through these examples :

Low : Taking down a message over telephone.
Medium : Writing an office memo to outline a new procedure.
High : Writing and publishing an article or a book.


9. Mathematics - How easily you use numbers to solve problems.

Rate yourself through these examples :

Low : Refunding balance to a customer.
Medium : Calculating area in square feet.
High : Developing a mathematical model in solving and/or recreating an engineering problem.


10. Science - How well you use science to solve problems.

Rate yourself through these examples :

Low : Doing standard tests to measure properties of a material.
Medium : Performing tests on a product to assess the effectiveness of safety standards.
High : Analyzing aerodynamic systems to test the design of an aircraft.


11. Communication skills – How good you are at communicating with others beyond speaking?

Rate yourself through these examples :

Low : Explaining a program schedule to others.
Medium : Explaining the usefulness of an engineering product to a customer.
High : Explaining the architecture of a software product to its development team.