Hi Rizzo,

I hadn't heard of (or taken) the test myself, probably because I've never been to Taiwan. Asked a friend down there what he thought about it, and he had this to say:

I haven't ever taken that test, but I have heard quite a bit about it and one of my friends took it. It was made by 師範大學, with pretty similar goals as the HSK had. From what I understand, almost all language schools in Taiwan offer this test now, but I've never heard of a university requiring it for a foreign student or any actual use for the accreditation. I think people wrote quite a bit more about it on forumosa.com

Will see what else we can find out about it. If there's interest and we're capable, there's no reason not to put some materials online to help people prepare for the exam.

--dave