Since 2010, HungKuang technological university in Taiwan has been undertaking an increasingly intensive program of twice yearly online TOEIC testing of freshman and sophomore students, using both Bridge and Full TOEIC (in mock and real versions). The overall purpose is to inform the institution, English staff, and students themselves more accurately than hitherto about the proficiency of the students and plan future policies accordingly. A preliminary analysis of a total of 3935 students' online assessment results has been undertaken (13,580 individual test scores for reading or listening or both), yielding a range of relevant findings including the following.

Overall mean proficiency on the real Full TOEIC is 111 for listening and 75 for reading (n=1075) which is quite low even for an institution where English is not called upon in the study of most majors, and prompts consideration of the nature/amount of English teaching provided, given the proficiency of students on arrival, and student needs and motivation to improve their English.

Differences between Departments varied depending on the test used but also revealed  effects of different use of English. E.g. Physical Therapy Dept. students untypically scored  better on reading than listening (Bridge TOEIC), possibly due to the English medical textbooks used and a students' self-help reading club to support textbook reading.

Published conversion tables between Bridge and Full TOEIC scores did not match actual equivalences for our relatively low proficiency students.

The mock tests proved to be poor predictors of real test performance, which counts against their use to reduce costs of taking the real tests.