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This regulation is drafted in accordance with the paragraph 3, of Article 33 of the Vocational Training Act. (hereinafter referred to as the Act)

The standards of the paragraph 3,of Article 33 of the Act include the related matters of Skills Certification, classes of Skills Certification, work items, trades of skills, standards of skills and related knowledge of skills, and they can be the reference and coverage for composing exam for written test and field test.

The National Competent Authority should initiate the development and adjustment of trades for Skills Certification by referencing the policies of national economic development, cooperating with the trend of industry development and the needs of employment market.
The previous paragraph development and adjustment of trades for Skills Certification can delegate the related institutes and organization to transact.

If having one of the following incidents, the National Competent Authority should initiate the development and adjustment of trades for priority:
1. It needed to hire the technicians in accordance with the rules and regulations.
2. Its technique relates to the public safety.

If having one of the following incidents, the National Competent Authority should not initiate the development of trades:
1. It needed to be included in professional occupations and technologist examinations.
2. It should be initiated by the Competent Authorities for Business Objectives in accordance with the rules and regulations.
3. Its knowledge and technique still lack of the standards of objective evaluations.

The related professional organizations and institutes can pose suggestion and recommendation of the development and adjustment of trades for Skills Certification.
The suggestion and recommendation should include the written data of title of the trade, reason for development, expected effectiveness, supply and demand of manpower in labor markets, work coverage of the trade and major work items.

The National Competent Authority should make the standard of Skills Certification and can delegate the related institutes and organization to transact if necessary.
The National Competent Authority should congregate and discuss with the related competent authorities for business objectives, schools, training institutes, business institutes or organizations when making the standards.

The National Competent Authority should invite 6~10 persons meeting one of the following requirements to discuss and make the standard of each trade for Skills Certification:
1. Being or having been the assistant professor or higher status at the college or university and having over five-year teaching experience in the related department.
2. Graduating with the related major at the college or university (or higher) and having over ten-year teaching experience in the related trade.
3. Graduating with the related major at the college (or higher) and being or having been the director of technique or training department of the related agency for over five years.
4. Graduating from senior high or senior vocational high school, having the present highest-class certificate of the related trade and having over ten-year on-site practical experience of the related trade or officiating the related vocational training for over ten years.
5. Being the representative of Competent Authorities for Business Objectives.
The standard of Skills Certification of the trade with special characteristics is not limited by previous paragraph.

The National Competent Authority can ask the related competent authorities for business objectives, schools, training institutes, business institutes or organizations to recommend the candidates when inviting and commissioning the personnel of previous Article.

Undisclosed exam of the written test and field test of Skills Certification should be composed from the quiz bank by the National Competent Authority.
If the exam of the field test is public, then it would be allotted by the exam instruction

The examination agency officiating the written test or the field test adopting the written test with non-choice and non truth-or-false quiz should officiate the intensive grading.

The examination agency officiating the written test should read the answering card by high-sensibility and low-sensibility for each one time when adopting the computerized card reader for grading. And decide the grade most beneficial to the examinee.

If the answering card not following the requirement can be read when adopting the computerized card reader grading, it should be dealt with in accordance with the following rules:
1. The answering card is counted as 0 if having words or signs against the additional regulation to be unable to read the whole answers.
2. The answering card is counted as how many it reads if being marked with any ineligible pen to be unable to read.
3. The answering card is counted as how many it reads if being corrected unclearly, marked too light or too heavy.
4. It is not counted if the single-choice question having double answers marking.
5. The answering card is counted as how many it reads if the examinee besmears or damages the answering card.

If the damaged answering card can't be read when adopting the computerized card reader grading, it should be dealt with in accordance with the following rules:
1. The answering card is counted as 0 if finding that it's made by the examinee after investigation.
2. The answering card is re-counted as how many it re-reads or by hand grading after the Competent Authority asks the examination agency to Xerox and reproduce the answering card if it is damaged during the process or by the card reader after investigation. And the copy should be noted its cause and co-consigned and then sealed and retained with the original answering card by the examination agency.

It is divided into initial grading and final grading if it adopts hand grading. Initial grading and final grading are officiated by different personnel. And the grade of the subject is counted as how many by the final grading. If the grades of initial grading and final grading have serious errors, it should be handed in the third person for re-grading and counted as the re-grade.

If the answering card not following the requirement when adopting the hand grading, it should be dealt with in accordance with the following rules:
1. The grade of the subject will be deducted 5 if it is answered by ineligible signs or with pencil.
2. It is not counted if the answering marking placement gets wrong or the single-choice question having double answers marking.
3. It is not counted if the answer is corrected unclearly to be unable to identify.
4. The grade of the subject is counted as 0 if the answering sheet has ineligible words, signs or notes.

Skills Certification sign-up should be in accordance with the annual publication, and it can't be cancelled, asked for refund or modified its exam trade, class, date and test site.

Skills Certification sign-up and examining of the same trade and the same class on the same date can't be duplicate. Duplicate sign-up applicant will be examined at one appointed testing site by the Competent Authority, and the expense of duplicate sign-up won't be refund.

Skills Certification consists of written test and field test.
A written test is basically a paper & pencil test. Other testing methods can be applied if necessary. The score of written test is counted by percentage and the passing score is 60.
A field test is basically a practical work test. A written test with non-choice and non truth-or-false quiz can be applied if it's unsuitable to adopt the practical work. The score of field test is counted by percentage or "Pass" and "Fail" and the passing score is 60.
If the Competent Authorities for Business Objectives have other passing standard of written test and field test, the standard must be followed.

The examination agency of field test should advise the examinees the related information of the field test at least ten days before the test. If there is any regulation for the field test, it must be followed.

The answering cards and evaluation sheets of written test and field test of Skills Certification should be sealed and retained after judgment, and should be retained for one year from the date sending the grade report. However, the contentious one posed within the retaining year should be retained for five years.
The sign-up report and identity of the Skills Certification examinee of Class C and Single Class should be retained for one year from accepting the sign-up. However, the contentious one posed within the retaining year should be retained for five years.
The sign-up report and identity of the Skills Certification examinee of Class B and Class A should be retained for five years from accepting the sign-up.
The previous paragraph 1 to paragraph 3 data should be retained by the examination agency of written test or field test. And the data should be listed and recorded for the duration of retaining. The Competent Authority can retrieve and review the data if necessary and request for retaining extension.

Personnel participating or officiating the Skills Certification should keep the secret if knowing and possessing the following data, and must not have any behavior of corrupt practices, disclosure or peculation:
1. Quiz of the written test and field test.
2. Evaluation standard and sheets of the field test before the test
3. Reference answers of the written test and field test.
4. Answering cards and sheets of the written test and field test (including workpiece and evaluation sheets).
5. The related data of the testing grade of the disputable subject.
6. Quiz bank preparation, invigilating sites, the invigilator and other related data.
If the materials described in subparagraph 1 to 3 of the previous paragraph, have been opened to the public, are not subject to the limit.

If the field test examinee is the related personnel of the examination agency of the field test, the examinee should avoid being examined at the original agency, and actively advice the examination agency of field test to report to the Competent Authority to arrange another test site to be examined. If there is only one agency officiating the field test, the examination agency of field test should report the Competent Authority to assign another invigilator who is not belong to the agency for invigilating and grading.

The examination agency of written test and field test should invite the persons meeting one of the following requirements to be the invigilators of the written test and the field test with non-choice and non truth-or-false quiz:
1. Being the attorney or the personnel equivalent to the attorney at each authority.
2. Being the teacher in the public or private school.

The examination agency of field test should invite the invigilators and markers having received the training of invigilating and marking or being judged qualified by the National Competent Authority for invigilating and marking.

The examination agency of field test should be cautious to the following items when inviting the invigilators and the markers in accordance with the regulations of the field test:
1. The agency inviting below 5 persons to be invigilators and markers at the same site can't invite over two persons from the same agency.
2. The agency inviting over 6 persons to be invigilators and markers at the same site can't invite over 1/3 of the whole persons from the same agency and exceeding 4 persons.
3. The agency can't invite the full-time or part-time lessoning personnel of the examination agency to be the cadet member of the agency or for invigilating and marking of the field test for students at the school.
4. The agency can't invite the same person for invigilating or marking for 2/1 of the whole duration if the duration of the field test of the same time is over 5 days. And the same personnel can't invigilate or mark the same trade for over 10 days within the same month.

If the invigilator or the marker has any of the following circumstances, he should avoid invigilating and marking of the test:
1. The examinee is his spouse, ex-spouse, the consanguineous relative or the affined relative.
2. It is evident that he might have deviation when administrating.
If the invigilator or the marker has the circumstances described in the previous paragraph but still doesn't avoid it, the examination agency of field test and written test should order him to avoid.

If the invigilator or the marker is informed by the examinee that the test paper has errors or omissions to be difficult to identify when testing, he should contact the examination agency of field test and written test to investigate instead of correcting by himself.

If the invigilator of the written test and the field test with non-choice and non truth-or-false quiz has any of the following circumstances, the examination agency of field test or written test should decommission him instantly and advise the Competent Authority and his agency:
1. Being late or not attending the workshop without any excuse to affect the invigilating.
2. Unable to maintain the order of the test.
3. Losing the whole or part of the test papers, answering sheets (cards) or other document.
4. Having unwell working attitude while invigilating and having quarrels with the examinees.
5. Not following the regulation of Article 27.
6. Being seriously careless to affect the right of the examinees and the test.

If the invigilator and marker has any of the following circumstances after investigation, he should be decommissioned instantly and terminated being invited his invigilating and marking for two years:
1. Being absent or not attending the coordination meeting prior to invigilating and marking to affect the invigilating or marking.
2. Unable to maintain the order of the test to make the field test proceed ineffectually.
3. Unfamiliar with examination sites content and the evaluation standard of the field test to be unable to have the competency of invigilating and marking.
4. Unable to execute the invigilating with earnest and responsible attitude to make the counting and recording of test grades have errors.
5. Having other serious circumstance to affect the right of the examinees and the testing matters.

The examination agency of field test should fill in the evaluation reports of executing of the invigilators and markers during each field test.
If the evaluation reports of executing of the invigilators and markers have any record listing against the previous Article matters or the Article 39 of Regulation for Technician Certification and Licensing, the evaluation reports should be reported to the National Competent Authority to be dealt with.

If the invigilator or the marker of the written or field test has evidence to avoid or find out the examinee cheating while invigilating or marking, the examination agency of field test or written test should properly award or ask his agency to award him.

The examinees of the written test should have seat according to the admission numbers while the preparatory ring is ringing. The examinee can't be admitted to get in 15 minutes after the test starts, and can't get out within 45 minutes of the duration. However the examinees taking the computer-based-test will not be limited by the latter regulation.

The examinee of the written test should put the admission and the identity card in front of the left side of the desk to be checked after seating; and check the name of the emergent tag (or answering card), admission number, trade, class and the test paper. The examinee should inform the invigilators to deal with if he finds that there is any nonconformity or unwell seal.
The examinee of the written test is forbidden to bring the cell phone, pager or any other electronic telecommunication facility in the examination site. The stationary except for testing should be put in accordance with the invigilators' instruction.

If the examinee of the written test has any of the following circumstances, he must be arrested testing and forbidden to be examined continuously. And his grade is counted as 0:
1. Imposter.
2. Holding the fake or modified examination identity.
3. Changing seat or test paper and answering card with one another.
4. Circulating data, signs or chatting with one another.
5. Cribbing or against the second regulation.
6. Not handing in the test paper or the answering card.
7. Using the calculator forbidden to be used.
8. Peeking other's answering card or let others peek his answering card deliberately.
9. Writing the related words or signs on the desk, stationary, body or other positions.
10. Not following this regulation, not accepting the invigilators' advises, or disturbing the order of the examination site.

If the examinee of the written test has any of the following circumstances, his grade should be deducted 20:
1. Having the incorrect seat and making other's answering card.
2. Breaking or damaging the seal of the answering card, cutting the paper of the answering card or besmirching the answering card.
3. Tearing out the emergent tag and writing the name or other words and signs on the answering card.
4. Keeping on answering after the time ends or not getting constantly out of the site after handing in the answering card and not following the invigilators' advise
5. Getting out of the examination site within 45 minutes and not following the invigilators' advises.

The examinee of the written test should get out of the site after handing in the answering sheet (card) along with the test paper, and shouldn't get in again afterwards.

For the field test adopting practical work, the examinee should get in the examination site on time, and would be forbidden to get in 15 minutes after the test starts; as for the test adopting divided steps or stops, the examinee would not get in if being late except for the first step or stop.
For the field test adopting written test with non-choice quiz, the examinee can follow the regulations of Article 33 to Article 37.

The examinee of the field test should show the admission, the field test notice, the identity card, and self-prepared tools to be checked by the invigilators and markers. While entering examination site. Any unregulated facility, assembly, illustration, cell phone, pager or any other electronic telecommunication facility can't be brought in the examination site.
The examinee wouldn't be allowed to have the test if he doesn't wear the uniform regulated by the specific trade for field test.

The examinee of the field test should be in the position in accordance with the examining position number, and put the admission, the field test notice and the identity card on the assigned place to be checked.
If the examinee has any dispute toward the machines, tools, equipment and materials supplied by the examination agency of field test, he should pose at that time to ask the invigilators and markers to deal with. After the test starts, he can't pose any disputes.

The examinee of the field test should follow the regulated items on-site narrated by the invigilators and markers.

The beginning and ending of the field test is decided by the announcement of the examination agency and the examinee can't beforehand or delay on his own.

The examinee of the field test should take notice of the safety of machines, tools and equipment while operating them.

If the machines, tools and equipment in the field test are broken-down due to the examinee's negligence, the examinee should debug on his own without any additional test time.

The examinee of the field test should operate the machines, tools and equipment well. The examinee should take fault liability if damaging them deliberately.

The examinee of the field test should dispose self-equipped tools and workpiece during the break in accordance with the invigilator and marker's direction.

The examinee of the field test should hand in the product or the workpiece to the invigilator and marker after the test, including one departs during the process. The examinee can't get in the examination site after handing in the workpiece.

If the examinee has any of the following circumstances, he must be arrested testing and forbidden to be examined continuously. And his grade of field test is counted as "Fail":
1. Imposter.
2. Circulating data, signs.
3. Assisting or commending others to do the practical work.
4. Changing the workpiece or figure with one another.
5. Bringing the product or the unregulated facility, figure, cell phone, pager or any other electronic telecommunication facility.
6. Not handing in the workpiece, figure or the test paper that should be handed in according to the regulation.
7. Damaging the machines, tools and facilities deliberately.
8. Not accepting the instruction of the invigilators or the markers and disturbing the order within or out of the examination site.
9. Against the regulation of Article 23.
10. Knowing that the invigilators and markers not following the regulation of Article 27 and being examined continuously.

If the examinee has any disputes toward the written test and the field test adopting written test with non-choice quiz, he should pose it to the Competent Authority or the written and field test examination agency with a written form listing the following items within 7 days after the test:
1. Name, admission number, address and contact phone number.
2. Trade of the test, class, date and number of the quiz.
3. If the quiz or answers have improper items or errors, it should be narrated and explained and reported to along with the related data.
The due date of posing disputes by the examinee is according to the postmark, and the disputes wouldn't be dealt with over the due date.
The examinee should pose the dispute once for one quiz

The Competent Authority or the written and field test examination agency should handle the above disputes in accordance with the following process:
1. If the dispute concerns the essential content of the test, the Competent Authority should report the dispute data, the quiz and the answer to the personnel of quiz bank proposition to declare their viewpoint within 7 days. If necessary, the Competent Authority could invite other experts to discuss and deal with the viewpoints, and then review the test paper to inform the examinees.
2. If the dispute doesn't concern the essential content of the test, it could be handled by the Competent Authority or the written and field test examination agency directly.
The personnel of quiz bank preparation mentioned in the first subparagraph of the previous paragraph could invite other personnel of quiz bank preparation to take the alternative to deal with.

If the quiz or answers have any error or defect after investigation, it would be dealt with according to the following regulations:
1. If the quiz has an error to result in none correct answer, then the grade of the quiz will be added for all examinee.
2. If the quiz has a defect, but still has a correct answer or the announcing answer is wrong, then the test will be reviewed according to the revised answer.

If the field test adopting the written test with non-choice quiz has any error or defect after investigation, it would be dealt with according to the following regulations:
1. If the quiz or its sub-quiz has an error unable to be answered, then the grade of the quiz or its sub-quiz won't be counted. And the grade should be adjusted and dispensed to other quiz of the subject or its sub-quiz.
2. If the quiz has a defect but still can be answer, then the test will be reviewed according to the revised answer.

If the examinee has any dispute toward the quiz of the field test adopting the practical work during the process of testing, he should pose it promptly and the invigilators or the markers should record it. The dispute not posing and being recorded promptly won't be accepted.
The previous paragraph mentioned dispute would be dealt with according to the regulation of Article 50.

If the examinee has any dispute toward the grade of the written or field test, he can ask for grade reviewing by the Competent Authority or the written and field test examination agency once within 15 days after receiving the transcript. It won't be accepted if it's over the due date.

The Competent Authority should deal with grade reviewing of the examinee according to the following methods:
1. For the written test, the Competent Authority should check the correspondence of the applicant's answering card and his admission number, and then check the method of answering if in accordance with the regulation, and check the counting and recording if having no mistake.
2. For the field test, the Competent Authority should check the correspondence of the applicant's answering sheet or his evaluation listing and his admission number, and then check the grade applied for reviewing to confirm the counting of each item and recording having no mistake.
The Competent Authority should reply and send the reviewing result by the above process and the evaluation method of each trade to the applicant. The original sheet (card) can't be sent to the applicant. And the Competent Authority should inform the applicant the cause if the answering method or the tools used by the applicant is not regulated, and the grade can't be counted correctly.

The applicant for grade reviewing is not allowed to ask for reviewing and grading, browsing, having the copy the answering sheet (card) and the evaluation sheet and offering the grade of each item or the reference answers of the field test. It is also not allowed to be acknowledged the name or other related information about the personnel for quiz bank proposition, invigilating and grading.

If there is any of the following circumstances, the principal of the examination agency should supplement the testing duration with the delay time:
1. Delaying the answering time of the examinees due to the negligence of the test working.
2. Delaying the examinees arriving at the examination site on time due to the arrangement of the examination site or other matters.
3. Moving to another proper site to have the test after the decision due to improper arrangement of the examination site or the equipment.
4. Abandoning the test after the decision due to have power cut or other accident during the process.

The grade should be added by the proportion of advancing time in the whole duration if ending the testing time without following the regulation to return the test papers.

The written or the field can't be proceed while having power cut, typhoon, earthquake, air raid, flood, fire, omission of the test papers, missing the test papers or any other serious accident. It should be dealt with in accordance with the following regulations:
1. For happening before the test, the examination of the written or the field test should report to the Competent Authority to decide. If the test will be held on another date, it should be proclaimed by the agency and notice the examinees.
2. For happening during the test process, after consideration the principal of the examination agency should advise the invigilator or the marker to return all the answering sheets (cards) or the workpieces promptly. If the duration of the written test or the field test adopting the written test with non-choice and non truth-or-false quiz is not over 1/2 of the whole time, the test must be held on another date. As for the test which is over 1/2 of the whole time, the grades of the examinees should be counted according to the previous paragraph rule.
3. If the situation described in the previous subparagraph happening to the field test adopting the practical work, the field test officiating agency should deal with it.

If the written test can't be held and must have to be held on another date due to the previous Article circumstances, the proposition of the test should be renewed. However, if the Competent Authority makes sure that there is no possibility of indiscretion, it can adopt the original test.

If the examinee's answering sheet (card) is cut or damaged due to the negligence of the personnel of testing affairs, it should be listed on the examination record.

If the examinee's completed answering sheet (card) is missed or damaged after testing but before recording and the grade can't be counted, the examination agency should report the viewpoint of handling to the Competent Authority to review and decide.

The patterns of documents, forms and tables in this regulation are to be prescribed by the National Competent Authority.

This regulation is implemented since the day it is proclaimed