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.