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Compulsory examinations – Listening comprehension

This test is divided into four parts:

• Part 1 tests candidates' ability to interpret statements dealing with pictures, images or illustrations depicting everyday scenes;

• Part 2 tests candidates' ability to understand recorded extracts of brief real-life exchanges (greetings, questions, phone conversations, inquiries, travel announcements, weather bulletins, etc.);

• Part 3 tests candidates' ability to understand a series of conversation snippets (two or three short conversations);

• Part 4 tests candidates' ability to understand a presentation, a radio programmebrief extracts from radio newscasts. Candidates may have to cope with several questions on a single extract or rapid delivery by speakers, or background noise.