{"id":665,"date":"2025-08-13T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americancouncils.org.ua\/?p=665"},"modified":"2025-08-29T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:45:07","slug":"flex-general-information-about-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americancouncils.org.ua\/en\/flex-general-information-about-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"FLEX &#8211; General Information about Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-teams=\"true\">Starting on <strong>August 13th, 2025<\/strong> FLEX Program application <strong>for 2026-2027 school year is open.<\/strong> Applicants who fulfill eligibility requirements can participate in the recruitment process<strong> from any location that has Internet access, using either a mobile device or a computer. <\/strong>Deadline for applying is<strong> September 16th 2025.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FLEX Program will be conducting testing in 3 rounds from August to December.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Round 1<\/strong>: This round includes a preliminary online application and 3 essay questions that must be submitted <strong>within 5 days of starting the application.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Round 2:<\/strong> Students will be invited to take part in an online English test.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Round 3:<\/strong> This semi-finalist round will include an interview, 3 more essay questions, the full application, and a comprehensive English test. Students who pass to this stage will be invited to participate by the American Councils office in their country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Post-Recruiting:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After applications are received from all candidates, the documents are sent to Washington, DC for the selection committee to review. The results of the competition are expected <strong>in spring of 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once results are released, finalists and alternates prepare the necessary documents for their U.S. visa and school registration. All finalists are required to attend a Pre-Departure Orientation before going to the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Finalists selected in the spring of 2026 depart for the United States in August 2026 and return to Ukraine in May and June 2027.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\">Follow the link to apply: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ais.americancouncils.org\/flex\">ais.americancouncils.org\/flex<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting on August 13th, 2025 FLEX Program application for 2026-2027 school year is open. Applicants who fulfill eligibility requirements can participate in the recruitment process from any location that has Internet access, using either a mobile device or a computer. Deadline for applying is September 16th 2025. &nbsp; FLEX Program will be conducting testing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-info-2"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/americancouncils.org.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_0804hh-460x320.jpg","first_category":"Info","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americancouncils.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americancouncils.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americancouncils.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americancouncils.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americancouncils.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/americancouncils.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/americancouncils.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/2520\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americancouncils.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americancouncils.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americancouncils.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americancouncils.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}