Take the free CEFR Spanish test online: 40 questions on grammar, vocabulary, reading and everyday workplace usage. Instant A1 to C2 level, no email needed to see it. Written Spanish only, no listening or speaking.
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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.
No. This is a screening instrument mapped to the published CEFR can-do descriptors, not an accredited certification. It is not equivalent to DELE or SIELE and must not be presented as one — those are sat under exam conditions, cover all four skills, and carry recognition with universities, employers and immigration authorities that this test does not have.
Neutral working Spanish with Peninsular usage as the base, chosen so that a reader in Bogotá, Buenos Aires or Bilbao is scored on the same thing. Vocabulary that shifts meaning or register across regions is kept off the paper, ustedes is used rather than vosotros, and no question turns on knowing a regionalism.
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.
Taking our test should not be viewed as a comprehensive or precise evaluation of your abilities. Results are for informational and self-reflection purposes only.
Take the free CEFR Spanish test online: 40 questions on grammar, vocabulary, reading and everyday workplace usage. Instant A1 to C2 level, no email needed to see it. Written Spanish only, no listening or speaking.
This Spanish Proficiency Test places your written Spanish — and only your written Spanish — on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, the six-level A1 to C2 scale published by the Council of Europe and used across Europe and beyond to describe what a person can actually do in a language. Forty multiple-choice questions cover four areas: grammar and structure, vocabulary range, reading comprehension, and the functional language of everyday work — the register of an email, a handover note, a request to a colleague.
Two of the four CEFR skills are deliberately not here. There is no listening section and no speaking section, so the result describes your reading and written Spanish and nothing else. Someone can read and write at a high level and still find a fast phone call hard, and the reverse happens just as often. Read the band as a statement about text, and treat spoken fluency as an open question this test has not answered.
The Spanish itself is neutral working Spanish, with Peninsular usage as the base. Words that read differently — or coarsely — on the other side of the Atlantic are kept off the paper, and nothing you are scored on turns on a regionalism. Where a question addresses someone at work it uses usted and ustedes; where it is an everyday exchange it uses tú. Accents are part of what is being measured, because in Spanish they carry meaning: esta and está, el and él, si and sí are different words.
The test is a screening instrument mapped to the published CEFR can-do descriptors, not an accredited certification. It cannot be presented as one, and it is not a substitute for DELE or SIELE — those are sat under exam conditions, cover all four skills, and carry recognition with universities and immigration authorities that this test does not have. What it does give you, in fifteen minutes and without an appointment, is an honest working estimate of the level your written Spanish is operating at, and a breakdown showing which of the four areas is holding it there.
Your CEFR band from A1 to C2, and what it means in plain language
What you can and cannot yet do in Spanish at work, in writing
Your grammar and sentence-structure score, accents included
Your vocabulary range, from everyday words to precise register
Your reading comprehension on realistic workplace text
Which of the four areas is pulling your level down, and what to study next
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Take the free CEFR Spanish test online: 40 questions on grammar, vocabulary, reading and everyday workplace usage. Instant A1 to C2 level, no email needed to see it. Written Spanish only, no listening or speaking.
No signup needed — your result appears instantly.
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.
No. This is a screening instrument mapped to the published CEFR can-do descriptors, not an accredited certification. It is not equivalent to DELE or SIELE and must not be presented as one — those are sat under exam conditions, cover all four skills, and carry recognition with universities, employers and immigration authorities that this test does not have.
Neutral working Spanish with Peninsular usage as the base, chosen so that a reader in Bogotá, Buenos Aires or Bilbao is scored on the same thing. Vocabulary that shifts meaning or register across regions is kept off the paper, ustedes is used rather than vosotros, and no question turns on knowing a regionalism.
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.
