Placement

Units of Sound's placement is called 'screening'. It is not a test but a way of 'screening' a student so that he or she can be 'placed' correctly at the right place in the programme. Unlike many programmes Units of Sound does not spend time teaching what a student already knows, and the built-in revision checks that the student covers the whole programme.

The Screening programme is found in Student Management which holds the records for each Units of Sound student. There are only two screening programmes: Reading and Spelling. The Dictation and Memory programmes are automatically set from the Spelling screening.
Students are placed separately for Reading and Spelling and then work on both programmes alongside each other. By not tying them together it allows the reading to improve without being held back by poor spelling.

The results of the screening are displayed on the Student Programme Management screen.
If the level of spelling is low, the Memory and/or the Dictation programme are not offered until the spelling has reached an appropriate standard.