Spanish Levels 1 & 2 Course Structure

SECTION I–LISTENING: 15% of the exam

• Listening: Rejoinders
• Listening comprehension through short oral exchanges

SECTION II–LISTENING: 25% of the exam

• Listening: Dialogues and Narratives
• Listening comprehension through longer spoken selections

SECTION III–READING: 60% of the exam

• Part A: Discrete sentences (vocabulary and structure) 16%
• Part B: Short cloze* passages (vocabulary and structure) 20%
• Part C: Reading passages and authentic stimulus materials (reading comprehension) 24%

*Cloze refers to a test of reading comprehension that involves the test taker supplying words that have been purposefully deleted from the written passage.