📖 Reading
Candidates should understand individual captions, excerpts of texts of one-paragraph length, and complete short texts on topics defined by the functional, conceptual, and thematic inventory (see Examination Requirements Standards). They should understand the pragmatic intentions of the text and its main idea (global understanding). They should also be able to extract specific information from texts with a clear structure (selective and detailed understanding), whether printed or handwritten in neat, legible handwriting.
Candidates should be able to apply strategies that facilitate text comprehension, such as contextual understanding, skimming, and quickly searching for important information, among others.
Candidates should be able to apply strategies that facilitate text comprehension, such as contextual understanding, skimming, and quickly searching for important information, among others.
This part of the exam consists of 4 – 5 tasks of varying lengths and degrees of complexity. It assesses the understanding of text at the sentence, paragraph, and full-text levels. Regardless of the level of proficiency, the test tasks are based on original texts. At the basic level, these are primarily informational-interventional texts or narratives with a chronological sequence of events.
The assessment includes selective understanding (searching for individual pieces of information contained in the text, the ability to identify the main points of the statement), detailed understanding (at the level of individual words and structures), as well as global understanding (understanding the main idea of the text and its subordinate thoughts). The structural and narrative coherence of the text will also be evaluated.
The length of the texts used as the basis for the tasks ranges from 200 to 250 words. This depends primarily on the type of task for which the text serves as source material (in this exercise booklet, both longer and slightly shorter texts have been used).
The assessment includes selective understanding (searching for individual pieces of information contained in the text, the ability to identify the main points of the statement), detailed understanding (at the level of individual words and structures), as well as global understanding (understanding the main idea of the text and its subordinate thoughts). The structural and narrative coherence of the text will also be evaluated.
The length of the texts used as the basis for the tasks ranges from 200 to 250 words. This depends primarily on the type of task for which the text serves as source material (in this exercise booklet, both longer and slightly shorter texts have been used).
Tasks can be completed in any order, clearly marking the correct answer. It is important to carefully read the instructions and the example provided below them (marked with the number 0). The time allocated for completing tasks during the exam is strictly defined.
Last updated 15.08.2025