Best and Most Famous Test Providing Centers

What are the best Test Providing Centers and Why?

Given the soaring demand on building the capacity of working individuals in terms of skills and abilities to keep up with the so very competitive international market, many courses platforms and certification providers emerged to the surface. Obviously, with every solution comes a new problem. Courses platforms and certification providers based in a certain spot in the world wanted to expand their businesses and become worldwide providers so the idea of establishing unified testing centers that host tests of dozens of certification providers from around the world became closer to reality. Such testing centers are Pearson VUE, Prometric, Kryterion, and AMIDEAST.

Therefore, a test providing center is a fully equipped facility that hosts tests of different bodies around the world. Usually, those test providing centers have branches around the world in order to fulfill the needs of their clients.

Hence, we are going to review some of the best and most famous test providing centers and all the information you need to know about.

Best and Most Famous Test Providing Centers

• Pearson VUE

Pearson VUE is a computer-based testing center (CBT) with headquarter based in the United States. With over 35,000 employees around the world, hundreds of national and international organizations depend on Pearson VUE in developing, managing, delivering as well as growing their testing programs. Moreover, Pearson VUE provides not only online proctored tests, but it also provides online practice tests. In addition, Pearson VUE imposes very secure testing environments as well as using modern technologies in their systems, making it one of the most preferable test providing centers around the world.

Pearson VUE provides its services almost in every industry, such as:

• Academia and Admissions
• Finance
• Government
• Health care
• Information Technology (IT)
• Military
• US licensing and Global Regulatory.

Pearson VUE centers provide its services in many locations around the globe

• United States
• United Kingdom
• Dubai
• Australia
• India
• Japan
• China

You can access the exact address of any Pearson VUE testing center through their website, office locations button.

• How to Register for Your Exam

At Pearson VUE testing center, every 2 seconds there is an exam delivered. If it were your turn to take an exam, you can schedule it online on their website. Through Pearson VUE’s main page on their website, click on the option ‘For test takers’ then click on ‘Schedule an exam’.

• Prometric

Prometric is a premier testing center that provides its services in more than 180 countries around the world. Also, it helps associations by giving them advice as well as developing, managing, delivering tests using their long expertise in this field. Moreover, Prometric integrates technology with their testing environment, making it, allegedly, the most secure testing network in the world.

Prometric provides its services to many associations of different orientations, such as:

• Academic
• Finance
• Healthcare
• Professional associations
• Technology markets

• How to Register for Your Exam

When you want to register for an exam in Prometric, you need to be aware that not all tests are delivered in their test centers. Therefore, on Prometric main page, click on ‘Schedule my test’ and type your test provider’s name. This way you will find the nearest test location

• Kryterion

Kryterion Global Testing Solutions collaborates with many different types of organizations to build and deliver various services. Some of these services are skill tests, online assessments, and comprehensive high-stakes international certification programs. In addition, using leading-edge technology, Kryterion is considered one of the top-notch test providers around the world. Moreover, Kryterion closely monitors the level of security that best suits the target test through security technologies such as Webassessor. Furthermore, Kryterion offers two ways of testing to the applicants: the first one of which is taking the test in a Kryterion testing center. The second way is testing at a place of your choosing with fulfilling many conditions set by Kryterion such as webcam, microphone, and speed check.

• How to Register for Your Exam

In order to find the nearest test location, through Kryterion’s website, you need to make a Webassessor account and write down your location. Hence, Webassessor will direct you to the contact information of the closest testing center.

• AMIDEAST

AMIDEAST is an American premier nonprofit organization concerned with expanding educational access in the Middle East and North Africa. Among the many opportunities AMIDEAST’s offers such as exchange programs, scholarships, and youth and women programs, providing test is the main service of theirs. Since its establishment in 1951, AMIDEAST hosted over 190,000 test-takers in the educational field.

Here is a list of the tests AMIDEAST provides:

• TOEIC Tests
• TFI Test
• TOEFL IBT and ITP
• TOEFL Young Students Series
• GRE Tests
• SAT Tests
• CLEP/DSST Tests
• Prometric Tests
• Castle Worldwide, Kryterion, CGFNS International Tests.

AMIDEAST provides its services in many of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. They have over 20 offices in many of the MENA regions and they are as follows:

• Egypt
• Iraq
• Jordan
• Kuwait
• Lebanon
• Morocco
• Saudi Arabia
• UAE
• Yemen
• West Bank and Gaza

• How to Register for Your Exam

To know more about the tests AMIDEAST provides, visit their website and click on ‘select your country’ option, and then click on ‘take a test’.  After that, you will be forwarded to the list of exams administered by AMIDEAST, click on your target exam and choose ‘Register now’ button.