Teachers today are facing with the question of what to do with USE: shall we continue to test school subjects or shall we come back to the traditional format of oral interview/written composition. The discussion around language exams is especially hot. It concerns both Secondary and Tertiary level of education. On the one hand, the format that we have now for language exams is perhaps easier to be modified into traditional forms than tests for other subjects. On the other hand, socio-cognitive approach and Learning Oriented Language Testing (LOLA) give a good clue to solve the problem.