Spanish Proficiency Test
Your CEFR band from A1 to C2, explained in plain language. Separate scores for grammar and structure, vocabulary range, reading comprehension and everyday workplace usage. What your level means you can and cannot yet do in written workplace Spanish.
What You'll Discover
🌐Your CEFR level
Your CEFR band from A1 to C2, explained in plain language
📝Four sub-scores
Separate scores for grammar and structure, vocabulary range, reading comprehension and everyday workplace usage
💼What you can do at work
What your level means you can and cannot yet do in written workplace Spanish
What a Question Looks Like
Marta ___ la nueva responsable de recursos humanos.
Sample Result
🔬 Research & Sources
Mapped to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), the Council of Europe standard that defines the A1–C2 levels. This is a free written-Spanish placement check, not a certificated exam — DELE and SIELE results cannot be replaced by it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this test cover speaking and listening?
No. It measures written Spanish only — grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension and everyday workplace usage. Listening and speaking are two of the four CEFR skills and neither is in this test, so your band describes what you can do with text and says nothing about how you sound on a call.
Is this an official Spanish certificate?
No. This is a screening instrument mapped to the published CEFR can-do descriptors, not an accredited certification. It is not equivalent to the DELE or SIELE exams and should not be presented as one — those are administered under exam conditions, cover all four skills, and carry recognition with universities and immigration authorities that this test does not have.
Which Spanish does it test — Spain or Latin America?
Neutral working Spanish, with Peninsular usage as the base. It deliberately avoids anything that reads differently on the other side of the Atlantic: no 'coger' in a context where the verb could be taken another way, and the workplace questions address people as 'ustedes' rather than 'vosotros'. Everyday questions use 'tú' and work questions use 'usted', which is the ordinary distinction in both regions. Nothing on the test turns on a regionalism, so a reader from Mexico, Argentina or Spain meets the same instrument.
How is my CEFR level calculated?
Every one of the 40 questions is written at a target CEFR level, and the levels are spread across the test rather than stacked from easy to hard. Your total correct score is compared against cut-scores derived from that mix: to be placed at a band you have to handle the items written at that band, not simply collect easy points. The four area scores are reported alongside the band but do not change it — the band comes from the total.
How many questions are there and how long does it take?
40 questions, about 15 minutes. There is no timer and no time pressure, so you can read each passage properly. Every question has exactly one correct answer, so unlike a personality test there is no way to answer 'as yourself' — it is a knowledge test.
Do accents count?
Yes, where the accent is the answer. Written Spanish uses the tilde to separate words that are otherwise identical — 'esta' and 'está', 'el' and 'él', 'si' and 'sí' — and telling those apart is part of reading and writing the language, not a typing detail. Those questions sit at A2 and B1, where the distinction first starts to matter. No question is decided by a spelling slip that a reader would not notice.
Can I retake it?
The test ships in five parallel forms built to the same blueprint, so a retake draws a different set of 40 questions at the same difficulty mix rather than the same paper again. That said, written Spanish moves with reading and practice, not with repeated attempts — a retake is worth taking after a few months of study, not the same afternoon.
What do the four area scores mean?
Grammar and structure covers the forms that hold a sentence together — tense and aspect, agreement, the subjunctive, and the clause inside the clause. Vocabulary range covers how precisely you can choose a word, not just how many you recognise. Reading comprehension is what you can extract from a realistic passage, including the one detail you have to act on. Everyday workplace usage is the register of an email, a handover note or a request to a colleague — the Spanish that carries most of the day. They are reported so you can see which area is holding your band where it is.
Can an employer use this to screen candidates?
That is what it is built for, within its limits. The result leads with the CEFR band and a plain-language description of what the person can do in written Spanish at work, which is the form a hiring reader can act on. Two cautions: it evidences written Spanish only, so it cannot stand in for a spoken interview, and it is a screening signal rather than a certificate — treat it as a filter and a conversation starter, not as proof.