This study investigate stranslation testing as one of the most controversial issues in language studies. The question this study tries to answer is whether there is a relationship between test forms and translation Trainees" better performance on a specinc form. To answer this question, 45 senior students of translation training programme from the Islamic Azad University of Tonekabon were selected and participated in the experiment They were randomly assigned to three groups and were tested on different forms of translation tests (with the same content). The data of the study was analysed through the oneway ANOVA, and the relationship between the variables of the study was proved, rejecting the null hypothesis of the study.

English and Persian translator training has been offered by many Iranian universities as an undergraduate program nation-wide. However, the program failed to keep up with the dynamics of the market demands, findings of Translation Studies research, and varied competences of students in the past two decades. This study investigated the Iranian English translator Trainees’ perspectives on the former curriculum that was used for over twenty years. The other aim was to understand whether their needs and wants correspond to either of the old and the recently revised curriculum in 2018. Based on focus group interviews and literature review, a questionnaire was designed and validated, and the survey responses of over five hundred English and translator Trainees (351 females & 152 males) from twelve universities in Iran were statistically analyzed. The findings revealed that the courses related to translation practice were ranked as the most important component of the curriculum by the Trainees, highlighting that Trainees favor practice-oriented translation courses the most.