The aim of this exam is to assess if students have reached the B1 level of the CEF (Common European Framework) established by the Council of Europe. For a brief summary of what is involved in the B1 level of English see the Anotace.

The student who has passed the BY51 exam will have demonstrated an intermediate level of English language ability as described by the B1 level of the CEF (Common European Framework) established by the Council of Europe.

To help students with a lower level of English than B1 prepare for this exam the optional subjects English Intermediate 1 and English Intermediate 2 are offered by the Institute of Social Sciences.
Students can register online for the exam during the exam period.

Entry level B1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Students should be able to use the past and present tenses to talk about their lives, ask questions, give personal information, and understand clear English related to familiar subjects. They should have the ability to compare things using adjectives, use countable/uncountable nouns and some modal verbs, and manage simple functional transactions in shops, restaurants and while travelling. They should be capable of using the present perfect to express experience and describe long-lasting or temporary situations in their life; modals to express permission and obligation in connection with rules and behaviour; passives to describe processes, origins and materials; future forms to predict and plan actions in the future; and conditionals to express future situations and general theoretical possibilities.

winter

examination

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

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