The article depicts various types of reading used at ESP lessons as well as the aims and the necessity of using evaluation system for the reading skill. As teaching ESP, students are implied working with texts most of the time of the lesson. Therefore, the developing students' reading competence becomes vital. This denotes the usage of adequate evaluation system for ESP students' reading skills. Moreover, based on ESP materials and taking into account different reading techniques various

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... ion students' foreign language reading competence techniques are described as well. Hence, to help teachers in compiling and using appropriate reading tests, some criteria for defining the level of ESP students' reading competence and test designing are described with the examples of reading test exercises. Methods, described in the article, provide the reader with the information when and how to use the assessment material: at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of the course depending on the aims the teacher is targeting at. In addition, the article covers practical test results used at ESP lesson for the students of "Psychology" and "Applied Mathematics and Computer Science" faculties. Everything touched in the article could be valuable for other ESP teachers and scholars to implement in their further work with their students.