Compreensão da Leitura
Reading
- ·Phone messages matched to situations
- ·Small ads, opening hours and public notices
- ·A letter with sentence halves to join
- ·One longer text with five questions
CIPLE · Portuguese A2 · CAPLE, University of Lisbon
Sit the whole CIPLE paper before you sit it for real
Four reading tasks, two texts to write, twenty-five listening questions and the three-part speaking exam — in the format and the timings CAPLE actually uses.
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- is a pass
- 55%
- marked questions
- 45
- sittings a year in Portugal
- 9
is a pass
marked questions
sittings a year in Portugal
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Reading · CIPLE A2 3 of 5 answered
A Marta avisa o senhorio de que a torneira está a pingar.
- A.Boa tarde. Já falei com o canalizador. Ele vem na quinta.
- B.Boa tarde. A torneira da cozinha está a pingar desde ontem.
- C.Boa tarde. A senhora pode pagar a renda até ao dia oito.
AIProdução Escrita · 16 / 20
Built from the official paper
The structure, the item counts and the answer letters come from CAPLE’s own model exam and its published answer key. Every fact on this site links to its source.
Original material
Nothing here is a copy of a CAPLE paper. The exam is reproduced; the texts, notices and recordings are written for this site.
European Portuguese
Written and recorded in the Portuguese of Portugal — telemóvel, autocarro, estar a fazer. The exam is not marked in Brazilian Portuguese.
How it works
Three steps, and the third is the one that matters.
- 1
Find out where you are
Sit one full paper under exam conditions. You get a mark per component and a classification on CAPLE’s own scale.
- 2
Work on the weak part
Practise a single component at a time — the listening that goes too fast, the 80-word email, the questions about a notice.
- 3
Sit it again, timed
The point is not knowing the answers. It is finishing the written paper inside 75 minutes without running out of time on the writing.
The four things the exam marks
Practise them separately, then together.
Produção Escrita
Writing
- ·A 25–35 word reply to a message
- ·A 60–80 word email, continuing a printed opening
- ·Marked on task, range and accuracy
- ·Feedback in your language, corrections in Portuguese
Compreensão do Oral
Listening
- ·Ten short recordings, fifteen questions
- ·Ten sentences matched to ten places
- ·Played twice, exactly as in the exam
- ·No replay button — the recording controls the repeat
Produção Oral
Speaking
- ·Talking about yourself
- ·A situation to act out
- ·A short conversation about everyday events
- ·Record your answer and get it marked
The parts a machine can mark, marked
Reading and listening mark themselves — every answer is a letter. Writing and speaking are where people actually lose the exam, and where a practice paper is usually silent.
- ✓Your two written texts marked on task, range and accuracy
- ✓Your recorded answers transcribed and marked
- ✓Corrections in Portuguese, explanation in your own language
- ✓Every competitor stops at the speaking part. This does not.
Produção Escrita · Texto 2
Caros Amigos, Queria muito estar convosco no fim de semana, mas não consegui. Na sexta-feira o meu filho ficou doente…
Produção Escrita
16 / 20
Tarefa cumprida 72 palavras “estou trabalhando” → “estou a trabalhar”
Pricing
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- ✓Results per component, on CAPLE’s scale
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Questions
Is this the official exam?▾
No. CIPLE is set and marked by CAPLE at the University of Lisbon, and you register with them or with an approved centre. This site is preparation only and issues no certificate.
Do I need CIPLE for Portuguese nationality?▾
You need to prove Portuguese at A2 or above. CIPLE is one of the ways, and CAPLE’s own FAQ names it as the minimum level for nationality. There are two others, and they are compared on a separate page — including when the free one is the better choice.
What is the pass mark?▾
55% overall. CAPLE publishes that single threshold and nothing else; several preparation sites also claim a minimum in each component, but CAPLE does not say so, so this site does not treat it as a rule.
Is the speaking part really practised?▾
You record your answers to the three official parts and they are marked. It is not a pair exam with a live examiner — nothing online is — but it is closer than a list of topics to think about.
Which Portuguese?▾
European Portuguese. The vocabulary, the spelling and the recordings are the Portuguese of Portugal.
Find out where you stand
Sit one paper. It takes about two hours and tells you more than a month of guessing.
Start practising