TOPIK levels and scores

• Can speak and write short and simple words about personal details and life-related topics, and perform basic communication functions necessary for daily life.
• Can understand and produce short sentences using formulaic expressions, basic vocabulary, and basic grammar and can have simple interactions by using those sentences.

NIIED's wording.

• Can speak and write about personal and familiar topics and communicate in public places frequently encountered in daily life.
• Can listen and talk about everyday stories and convey simple information, and can read and write phrases related to activities that take place in public places at an easy level.
• Can understand and produce short paragraphs of speech and writing consisting of simple sentence structures.

NIIED's wording.

• Can speak and write about everyday personal topics and familiar social topics, and perform communication functions necessary for maintaining interpersonal relationships and exchanging opinions.
• Can listen and talk about simple events or experiences, and can read and write simple texts explaining factual content.
• Can understand and produce one or two paragraphs of speech and writing with various sentence structures.

NIIED's wording.

• Can speak and write about personal topics that are less frequently used as well as familiar abstract or social concepts, and perform communication functions necessary for study, work, professional interpersonal relationships, and social activities.
• Can understand and express specific and logical opinions relatively clearly, and can generally read and write texts that contain detailed information or require inferential understanding.
• Can understand and produce two to three paragraphs of speech and writing consisting of complex sentence structures.

NIIED's wording.

• Can speak and write in a variety of genres on unfamiliar abstract and social topics as well as topics in one’s field of specialization.
• Can communicate in public and formal contexts such as academic and professional situations.
• Can understand and use accurately and fluently logical oral and written discourse with consistency and cohesion.
• Can understand and produce multi-paragraph speech and writing consisting of complex and difficult structures.

NIIED's wording.

• Can produce a wide range of speech and writing on most abstract social topics and topics in professional disciplines, and can effectively and successfully perform communication functions in most social, formal, and public contexts.
• Can fluently and accurately understand and produce spoken and written discourse that contains a variety of logical and rhetorical expressions as well as one that contain substantial amounts of implicit and deductive information.
• Can precisely understand and produce long multi-paragraph speech and writing consisting of complex and difficult sentence structures.

NIIED's wording.