Twenty-five questions in forty-five minutes, split across five tareas in fixed numbers, and weighted sixty to forty by a regulation. Both halves of that weighting are published and they have never been printed next to each other.
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The titles are the manual's own, in the manual's own order. The counts are the ones the Instituto Cervantes publishes on its exam page.
Article 6.3 of Real Decreto 1004/2015 sets the paper's weighting in law. It says the prueba is made up of “un sesenta por ciento de preguntas relativas a conocimientos sobre la Constitución y la organización administrativa y territorial de España y por un cuarenta por ciento de cuestiones sobre la cultura, la historia y la sociedad españolas”.
The Instituto Cervantes publishes the per-tarea counts somewhere else entirely, on its exam page, and never mentions the percentages. Put the two together and they line up exactly, with nothing left over.
Tareas 1, 2 and 3 are the Constitution and how Spain is organised: 10 plus 3 plus 2 is 15 of 25, which is the sixty per cent. Tareas 4 and 5 are culture, history and society: 3 plus 7 is 10, which is the forty. The split is not approximate and it is not a convention. It is the regulation, expressed in whole questions.
That is worth knowing before you plan your study. Tarea 1 alone is 40 per cent of the paper. Tarea 5, everyday life and dealing with the administration, is another 28 per cent. Between them those two tareas are 17 of the 25 questions, and 15 is a pass.
This is worth being exact about, because several of Spain's neighbours do it differently and readers arrive expecting the harder version.
There is one number: 15 of 25. No tarea has to be passed on its own, there is no separate bar on any section, and article 6.3 says every question is worth the same within the paper as a whole. You could get every question in tareas 3 and 4 wrong, five of them, and still pass with room to spare.
Fifteen out of twenty-five is sixty per cent. You are allowed ten wrong answers. It is a paper designed to be passed by someone who has worked through the manual, not one designed to catch you out.
450questions, drilled tarea by tarea in the order the Instituto Cervantes’ manual sets them, with a mistakes deck, spaced repetition and a mock in the real paper’s shape: 25 questions in 45 minutes, and a real apto or no apto, because all twenty-five come from one published manual.
Written by Belong Spain from the contents of the official manual. They are not the Instituto Cervantes’ questions, and the real sitting uses its own.
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