Prove your language skills in 45 minutes.

Understands and uses familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at meeting concrete needs. Can introduce themselves and others, and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where they live, people they know and things they have.

Understands sentences and frequently used expressions about immediately relevant areas — basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment. Can handle simple, routine exchanges of information on familiar matters.

Understands the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters met at work, school or in leisure. Can deal with most situations that come up while travelling where the language is spoken, and produce simple connected text on familiar topics.

Understands the main ideas of complex text on concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussion in their own field. Interacts with enough fluency and spontaneity that regular conversation with native speakers works without strain on either side.

Understands a wide range of demanding, longer texts and picks up implicit meaning. Expresses themselves fluently and spontaneously without obvious searching for words, and uses the language flexibly for social, academic and professional purposes.

Understands virtually everything heard or read with ease. Summarises information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments coherently, and expresses themselves very fluently and precisely, distinguishing finer shades of meaning.