STANAG - Standardization Agreement

STANAG is the NATO abbreviation for Standardization Agreement, which set up processes, procedures, terms and conditions for common military or technical procedures or equipment between the member countries of the alliance. Each NATO state ratifies a STANAG and implements it within their own military. The purpose is to provide common operational and administrative procedures and logistics, so one member nation's military may use the stores and support of another member's military. STANAG's also form the basis for technical interoperability between a wide variety of communication and information systems essential for NATO and Allied operations.

The STANAG 6001 

STANAG 6001 is a language proficiency scale designed to allow comparisons of language ability in different countries. The scale consists of a set of descriptors with proficiency skills broken down into 6 levels, coded 1 through 6. In general terms, skills may be defined as follows:

• Level 0               No practical proficiency
• Level 1               Elementary
• Level 2               Fair (Limited working)
• Level 3               Good (Minimum Professional)
• Level 4               Very good (Full professional)
• Level 5               Excellent (Native/Bilingual)
  

Language proficiency profile 

Language proficiency will be recorded with a profile of 4 digits indicating the specific skills in the following order:

• Skill A                Listening
• Skill B               Speaking
• Skill C               Reading
• Skill D               Writing
  

This number of 4 digits will be preceded by the code letters SLP which is to indicate that the profile shown is the Standardised (S) Language (L) Profile (P).
(Example: SLP 3321 means level 3 in listening, level 3 in speaking, level 2 in reading and level 1 in writing).

Summary of the different level here  

The original version of STANAG 6001 was created in 1976 and this document was modified in 2003. You can see a full copy of STANAG 6001  here and work out your own current level.

The STANAG 6001 test

We can arrange for you to take the examination and the certification at the Ministry of Defence Languages Examinations Board (MODLEB) at the University of  Westminster or even in our college (subject to class size).
We inform you the results on the day of the exam, and certificates will be issued the following week.

Click on each level to have a description of the test:

• SLP 1
• SLP 2
• SLP 3
• SLP 4  

Some exercises to practice taking this test Here .