Content of the B1 Listening Examination B1 Listening Examination (total time: approximately 15 minutes)
Task
Summary
Marks Available
Task 1: Listen to a
conversation
The Candidates listen to a conversation
between two speakers and answer 5
multiple choice ABC questions about the
content of the conversation. The Candidates
hear the recording twice.
Several question types, such as multiple
choice questions (MCQs), matching
exercises, gap filling, sentence completion,
and short answer exercises, are possible.
25
Total Marks Available in the Listening Examination: 25
Overview of the B1 Reading Examination The total time allowed for the Reading examination is 30 minutes. There are 2 tasks in total.
The Reading examination is completed under the supervision of an Invigilator, under controlled
examination conditions. The Examination may be conducted with one or multiple Candidates at
the same time.
Successful B1 Candidates will demonstrate the following competencies across the examination:
●
Can read correspondence relating to his/her field of interest and readily grasp the
●
essential meaning
●
Can scan longer texts in order to find the required information, or gather information
●
from different parts of the text
●
Can gather information from different texts to fulfil a specific task
●
Can read for information, ideas and opinions from highly specialised sources across
●
their field
●
Can understand specialised articles outside of their field
12
●
Can understand lengthy, complex instructions
Candidates’ performance in this examination is assessed based on the number of correct answers
they chose in each task. All of the questions across the assessment tasks are equally weighted.
