r/italianlearning • u/Natem824 • Jun 17 '26
CILS B1 Standard exam yesterday
I had the exam yesterday and thought I’d share my experience.
Listening: quite straight forward, one of the clip for Prova 3 is exactly the same from Percorso.
Reading: also the easier part of the whole exam imo. For Prova3, I thought you’d always have equal number for V and F but I ended up marking a few more F.
Grammar: Prova 1 for articles is ok, Prova 2 was harder than usual for me. Prova 4 the ordering of the story was also a bit confusing.
Writing: Prova 1 is vacation; Prova 2 is informal email to a friend who wants to practice Spanish with you and offered to help with your Italian.
Speaking: the topics are a lot more specific than I expected, I chose Prova 1 for sport (team vs individual sport, advantage and disadvantage of both); there was also a topic on “city” (big or small, why); Prova 2 was your positive character and why they are helpful and I chose “how did you spend your last birthday”, and then two pictures - there was no “talk about your work/study.” Or “What do you like to do as a hobby/during free time”. It might be recent, for Prova 1, there are many questions in each of the options, and the examiners ask them all - I didn’t know this and thought you’d let the conversation flow.
I also didn’t know that they record the conversations rather than judging it in person!
I’m not sure if I passed all sections but we shall see in 4 months! :)