GLEC Scoring Criteria

1. Any submitted documents and files for the preliminary round will be evaluated under the absolute grading system, and the applicants who are considered sufficient in submitting the entry files will be determined to pass to the final round. However, any insufficient documents may lead to a false application.
2. All speeches, essays, and recordings for the final round will go through a multi-stage examination and evaluation based on the below scoring criteria by the GLEC Evaluation Committee.
3. As part of a monitoring and further examination, the entire contest procedure will be recorded. All participants are considered to consent to the video/audio recordings and the use of recordings being used by the GLEC Secretariat. The use of recordings may include: supervision, examination, edit, website post, etc.
4. We consider the following to be acts of dishonesty. If we discover that you have engaged in any of the following while participating in the contest, your results will be invalidated.

• Opening another webpage or browsing another website
• Using notes, smartphones or other materials
• Talking on the phone or to other people
• Someone other than you takes any portion of the contest
• Someone else is in the room while you are taking the contest
• Other dishonest acts

Speech

Any speeches can be invalidated if:

  plagiarized some or all of other people’s speech

  the time is exceeded

Essay

Any essays can be invalidated if:

  plagiarized some or all of other people’s writings

  the word limit is exceeded