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  1. Complete an Application for Accreditation by Testingform. All documents required to be submitted with the application are listed on the application form.
  2. Send your application form and documents together with the application fee and testing fee specified on the form to:

    NAATI
    PO Box 223
    Deakin West ACT 2600
    AUSTRALIA

  3. Within about three weeks of submitting your form the NAATI office in the State/Territory where you specified to sit the Special On-demand test will contact you to arrange a date, time and location for your test. Confirmation of these details will be sent to you in writing.
  4. Sit the NAATI test. You must sit the Special On-demand test within four weeks of the initial contact by the NAATI State/Territory office.
  5. After your test, your paper will be forwarded to NAATI examiner fro marking. A result can be normally expected within six to eight weeks of sitting the test. All tests are marked by at least two examiners who may reside in different states. This is why it takes six to eight weeks to receive results.

    As soon as NAATI receives the results from the examiners, the results will be posted to you. If you pass, you will be accredited as an interpreter or translator in the language and at the level at which you were tested; if not, you will be automatically be invited to sit a test the next time your language and level are tested within the Annual Program. You may also sit another Special On-demand Test at any time. Each time you sit a NAATI test you will be required to pay the appropriate testing fee.

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Languages Available for Special On-Demand Tests in Australia

Albanian

Amharic

Arabic

Assyrian

Auslan

Bangla

Bosnian

Bulgarian

Burmese

Cantonese*

Chinese#

Croatian

Czech

Dari

Dutch

Eastern Arrernte

Filipino

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hakka

Hindi

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese

Khmer

Korean

Kurdish (Kurmanji)

Kurdish (Sorani)

Lao

Macedonian

Malay

Maltese

Mandarin*

Persian

Pertame

Pitjantjatjara

Polish

Portuguese

Punjabi

Pushto

Romanian

Russian

Samoan

Serbian

Sinhalese

Somali

Spanish

Tamil

Thai

Tongan

Turkish

Ukrainian

Urdu

Vietnamese

#Translation Only
*Interpreting Only
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