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Yokdil & YDS
​(Foreign Language Exams)

What are Yokdil & YDS exams?

The Yokdil and YDS are English language proficiency tests, mostly taken by civil servants, academics and military personnel. It is administered by ÖSYM in Turkey. The test evaluates the reading comprehension skills, listening, speaking and writing skills. This page will focus on only the YDS exam. 



​Who can apply fort he YDS?

  • Candidates who aim at academic career
  • Candidates who aim at getting master’s degree
  • Candidates who are final year undergraduate students or the previous ones who carry on getting master’s degree or doing doctorate
  • Civil servants who need language proficiency test for extra money being paid by the state
  • Candidates who work in private sector for extra money being paid by the company
  • Candidates who work in health area that take TUS and DUS exams



YDS Format

The test consists of 80 multiple-choice questions to be finished within 180 minutes. The questions mainly deal with English vocabulary, English language grammatical structures, sentence completion, English-Turkish translation, Turkish-English translation, English paragraph completion, locating the irrelevant sentence in a paragraph, restatement, dialogue completion and reading comprehension passages.
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​How is the YDS scored?


Every question is 1.25 points. 
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  • 20 x 1.25 = 25.00 Points
  • 30 x 1.25 = 37.50 Points
  • 40 x 1.25 = 50.00 Points
  • 45 x 1.25 = 56.25 Points
  • 50 x 1.25 = 62.50 Points
  • 55 x 1.25 = 68.75 Points
  • 60 x 1.25 = 75.00 Points
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Links for studying YDS

  1. Ingilizce: 
    1. https://www.ingilizcecin.com/yds-yabanci-dil-sinavi/
  2. Extreme YDS: 
    1. https://www.scribd.com/document/298968656/Extreme-YDS-Exam
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