Institut Ramon LLull

Catalan Language Certificates

1st Call 2025

The Institut Ramon Llull is the body responsible for assessing and certificating students’ knowledge of Catalan outside the Catalan-speaking area. 

According to current regulations, the Institut’s exams are aimed at people who reside outside the linguistic domain of the Catalan language and in Alghero. If this is your case, you will need to present proof of residence when you register.

 

Do you want to know if you can register?

Select your country from the dropdown and, if requested, enter the postal code of your town of residence (verifiable):

Examination venues

Aix-en-Provence, Alghero, Amherst, Amsterdam, Bari, Belgrade, Berkeley, Berlin, Birmingham, Bochum, Bristol, Brno, Brussels, Bucarest, Budapest, Cambridge, Caracas, Cardiff, Dublin, Durham, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Granada, Grenoble, Guayaquil, Heidelberg, Helsinki, Kraków, Leipzig, Lille, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London, Lorient, Luxembourg, Lyon, Madrid, Mexico City, Milano, Montreal, Moscow, Naples, New York, Oxford, Paris, Poznan, Quito, Regensburg, Rennes, Rome, Salamanca, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santiago de Compostela, Sassari, Seville, Sheffield, Siena, Szeged, Toulouse, Tübingen, Turin, Venice, Verona, Vitoria, Warsaw, Zadar, Zaragoza and Zurich.

First call calendar 2025

 

DATES

DEADLINES

Registration application and payment deadline

From 11/02/2025 to 04/03/2025

Publication of the provisional list of accepted and rejected applications

12/03/2025

Amendment period

From 13/03/2025 to 26/03/2025

Publication of the definitive list of accepted and rejected applications

03/04/2025

Basic user – elementary (A2): Writing Test

10/05/2025

Independent user – intermediate (B1): Writing Test

10/05/2025

Independent user – upper intermediate (B2): Writing Test

26/04/2025

Proficient user – advanced (C1): Writing Test        

24/05/2025

Proficient user – proficiency (C2): Writing Test        

26/04/2025

Publication of results

18/09/2025

Date of oral exams: interested parties will be notified on the day of the written exams.

    EXAM FEES

    • Basic user – elementary (A2) €30
    • Independent user – intermediate (B1) €35
    • Independent user – upper intermediate (B2) €35
    • Proficient user – advanced (C1) €40
    • Proficient user – proficiency (C2) €40

    COUNTRIES WHERE NO EXAM FEE IS CHARGED
    Any location in Africa, Central and South America and the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, India, Iran, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine.

    RESULTS

    The results are available at the virtual office on the date established in the resolution. People who obtain a passing result will be able to download the corresponding diploma.