Does anybody here know if the ROC has or has ever had a test similar to the PRC’s Putonghua Shuiping Ceshi (PSC)? The test measures the “standardness” of a speaker’s Putonghua. All graduates from Normal Universities in the PRC must now take the PSC and get a level 1 score before they are allowed to teach. News readers are also required to reach level 1 on the PSC. It’s a pretty nitpicky test in which the taker has to do read-aloud tasks for characters, words and a short passage, and then talk about a chosen topic for 5 minutes. Two raters decide if the test taker talks right or not. If they detect any sort of dialect accent, then the taker is unlikely to get a level one score (and will thus be unemployable as a teacher AFAIK). Has there ever been anything like this in Taiwan?