Welcome to TOLES®
Home to the Test of Legal English Skills. The World’s Leading Legal English Certificate for Law Students, Lawyers, and Legal Translators since the Year 2000.
TOLES®
Test of Legal English Skills.
The TOLES exams test the specific English that lawyers who do not have English as a first language need to work successfully in international commercial law.
Commercial legal English is significantly different from everyday English, or the English needed to do a law degree with a UK or US university.
The TOLES certificates allow international lawyers and law students to provide evidence of their language skills in specific areas of knowledge that are highly valued by employers, such as international commercial negotiations, company documents and cross-border contracts drafted in English.
Studying for a TOLES certificate is good preparation for international lawyers intending to do a course for the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE).
Introducing the TOLES Certificates
The TOLES Foundation Certificate
- First level TOLES exam
- Elementary/lower intermediate legal English exam
- 90-minute online exam
- Tests English legal vocabulary
- Tests essential elementary/lower intermediate English grammar
The TOLES Higher Certificate
- Second level TOLES exam
- Intermediate legal English
exam - 90-minute online exam
- Tests English legal vocabulary
- Tests essential intermediate/upper intermediate English grammar
The TOLES Advanced Certificate
- Third level TOLES exam
- Upper intermediate/advanced legal English exam
- 120-minute online exam
- Tests English legal vocabulary
- Tests high intermediate/advanced English grammar
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