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[dan_dan_dan]

I lived in Thailand for couple of years. Can speak Thai, read and write at what I would call intermediate level . Does anyone have experience in passing thai language exam? How did you prepare? Would you recommend any tutor or school in Bangkok? Are there any test samples online?

[tod-daniels]

Well, there is no ป.๖ test given to foreigners anymore and there hasn't been for a fair few years. .

Instead they give a Thai language proficiency test; where you're judged against the other people taking the test. This gives some suspect grading .. If you take the test with a room full of retards , you might score in the really high percentiles . Conversely if you take it with a bunch of "asian-ninja-thai-learners" you might score lower than your actual ability is .

Almost ANY schools which teaches via the old Union methodology, or schools I call "Union clones" offer a class which runs 4 or 6 weeks and preps you for the test.
UTL, Rak Thai Language, Sumaa Thai, Piammitr, Nisa Thai, etc, I think all offer the course.

From what I hear the new test is quite similar to the old ป.๖ test, your just not graded on what a Thai sixth grader would know, but as I said, against what the other people taking the test know...

I'm sure some other more learned posters will come on and post more about it.