What actually happens in the exam room This is what I see year after year: Candidates who have been told they are “STANAG 6001 Level 3” write unfocused answers and receive lower scores. Fluent candidates fail because they do not answer the question that was asked. Candidates with good grammar plateau because structure is missing. Candidates who “know the language” underperform because they were never trained to perform under exam conditions. None of this is a language p