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INSTRUCTIONS FOR TAKING THE ONLINE SPANISH PLACEMENT TEST

(IMPORTANT: please read these instructions carefully)

UAB Idiomes Barcelona uses a written online test to gauge your level of Spanish.

This test consists of:

The C-Test, in which you complete the words of 4 texts by filling in the missingletters. To do this, you need to add the same number of letters as those already

given for each word (or the same number plus one if the word has an oddnumber of letters)

A multiple-choice exercise on grammar, vocabulary and language use. Thequestions that appear will vary in difficulty depending on whether the previous

one was answered correctly or incorrectly.

To do the online written test, go to the following page:

http://simtest.uab.es/simtest/index.html

Then, click on Instructions in Catalan, English or Spanish and read them.

Click on continue and fill in the following information:

o Session number: 50163o Centre: uab-bcno User: surname and first nameso Password: 2012o Level: 1

Then, click on continue, read the instructions for doing the C-test (there are four texts)

and click on continue. It is very important not to exit the test without completing it. If

the questions are too difficult, skip them, but continue to the end.

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When you finish the test, the result will appear on screen, expressed as a number that

can be interpreted as shown in the following table. What this result indicates is not

your current level (more information about your language skills is needed for this), but

the course that you should take.

Result of the online

placement testUAB Idiomes courses

Council of Europe levels:Common European Framework

of Reference for Languages

0 -2 First A1 A1 (Breakthrough)

2 - 3 Second A2 A2 (Waystage)

3 - 3,5

3,5 - 4

Third B1.1

Fourth B1.2

B1 (Threshold)

4 - 4,5

4,5 - 5

Fifth B2.1

Sixth B2.2B2 (Vantage)

5 - 5,5

5,5 - 6

Seventh C1.1

Eighth C1.2

C1

(Effective Operational

Proficiency)

6 + Ninth C2 C2 (Mastery)

The UAB Idiomes curriculum is based on the levels described in the Common European

Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), of the Council of Europe. Each course is

made up of 80 class hours. Our course certificates are issued by the Universitat

Autnoma de Barcelona (UAB) and can be used for obtaining university credit.

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