Multiple choice

Candidates read a text or listen to a recording and answer questions. Each question has three or four options, only one is correct.

Cloze

Candidates must complete gaps in a text using words or phrases.

Gapped sentences

Candidates complete gaps in sentences by choosing the correct word from four multiple choice options.

Statement of Result (SoR) & e-certificate are sent by email or through the Test Centre;

• 2 business days for computer-based adaptive exams.
• 2 business days for Online exams
• 5 business days for paper-based exams

Digital badges are available on the same day as results.

Hard-copy certificates are sent either to the candidate or to the Test Centre shortly after results are released.

Test Reports displaying the candidate’s overall score, as well as a breakdown of scores for each skill are released upon completing the exam.

Candidates sitting the computer-based exam with a score between 0 and 9 will receive a provisional result of 0.

CEFR A1

• Can recognise familiar words, everyday expressions and very basic phrases when people speak slowly and clearly.
• Can understand familiar names, words and very simple sentences on familiar topics and obtain information from notices, posters and catalogues.
  
  

CEFR A2

• Can understand phrases and the highest frequency vocabulary related to areas of most immediate personal relevance such as basic personal and family information, shopping, local area and employment.
• Can catch the main point in short, clear, simple messages and announcements.
• Can read and understand very short, simple texts such as personal letters.
• Can find specific, predictable information in simple everyday material such as advertisements, prospectuses, menus and timetables.   
  
  

CEFR B1

• Can understand the main points of clear standard speech on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.
• Can understand the main point of many radio or TV programmes on current affairs or topics of personal or professional interest when the delivery is relatively slow and clear.
• Can understand texts that consist mainly of high frequency every day or job-related language.
• Can understand the description of events, feelings and wishes in personal letters.
  
  

CEFR B2

• Can understand extended speech and lectures and follow complex lines of argument, provided the topic is reasonably familiar.
• Can understand most TV news, current affairs programmes and the majority of films in standard dialect.
• Can read articles and reports concerned with temporary problems in which the writers adopt particular attitudes or viewpoints.
• Can understand contemporary literary prose.
  
  
  

CEFR C1

• Can understand an extended speech even when it is not clearly structured and when relationships are only implied and not signalled explicitly.
• Can understand TV programmes and films without too much effort.
• Can understand long and complex factual and literary texts, appreciating distinctions of style.
• Can understand specialised articles and longer technical instructions that are relevant to various fields.

CEFR C2

• Can understand with ease any kind of spoken language, whether live or broadcast, even when delivered at fast native speed, provided there is a familiarity with the accent.
• Can read virtually all forms of the written language at ease, including abstract and structurally or linguistically complex texts such as manuals, specialised articles and literary works.

Download

• Practice Paper 1 for the Paper-based test
• Answer Sheet for the Paper-based test
• Handbook for Candidates (English version)
• Handbook for Candidates (Spanish version)
• Listening & Reading Computer-based Guide for Candidates (English version)
• Listening & Reading Computer-based Guide for Candidates (Spanish version)