Engineering Graduates in Chennai lagging in Spoken English

Updated on: Friday, August 14, 2015

Engineering students in Chennai and Hyderabad require improvement in spoken English among a sample of 30,000 engineering graduates surveyed across six metro cities including Mumbai-Pune, Kolkata, Bangalore, and Delhi. In comparison, Mumbai-Pune ,Bangalore and New Delhi were found to have students with good spoken English skills.

The survey was based on SVAR - a spoken English testing tool used by many industries in the country before hiring employees. This test judges parameters such as active listening, fluency, grammar,spoken English comprehension,pronunciation and vocabulary.

Among the metro cities, Chennai and Hyderabad had the lowest percentage of engineering graduates in the highest CEFR level - 0.2% and 0.9% respectively. These two cities also has the highest number of engineering graduates in the lowest scale of A1 - 34.3% and 25.6%. The survey done by Aspiring Minds, an employability testing and certification company, which tested spoken English skills of engineering graduates of 500 colleges in our country has said only 7 % of engineers could speak good English.

The location of the college plays an important on quality of spoken English. On an average, the spoken English of graduates are comparatively not good in campuses in lower level cities. There is further degradation of spoken English skills from level 2 to level 3 campuses.

Engineering Graduates in Chennai lagging in Spoken English

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