Young Students Can Take Toefl Test Without Guardians Present

Students aged 15 years or younger can take an English language proficiency test in South Korea without their parents or guardians being present, the country's antitrust regulator said Sunday.

The Educational Testing Service, a US nonprofit organization that administers and scores the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), had demanded parents or guardians be present at testing sites when their children aged 15 years or younger took a TOEFL test.

The ETS had nullified the TOEFL scores of children aged 15 years or younger and refused to return test fees unless their parents or guardians stayed on-site during their test, according to the Fair Trade Commission (FTC).

The ETS has claimed it had demanded the presence of parents or guardians for the safety of test takers aged 15 years or younger, but the FTC said the responsibility to manage those taking tests falls on the administrator

After a three-month probe into the ETS, the...