It doesn’t seem to have been officially announced yet, but my broken link detector took me to a major reorganisation of the BULATS website under which hid even bigger changes to the exam. What I’ve managed to discover so far:
– It is now possible to take the Speaking and Writing tests at a computer, and given the prominence of that on their website I guess it will be the new default option. I haven’t had time to look more closely, but I’m guessing it will be just like TOEIC Writing and Speaking, meaning replying into a microphone to recorded questions and (very sensibly) being able to type your answers to the Writing.
– BULATS (meaning basically Cambridge for the English language version) is now offering an online preparation course which will presumably both help some teachers and be competing with the rest of us for students
– Something called the Certificated BULATS which is useable for immigration purposes, both for English and French, also exists
More by me on BULATS:
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