Nivel Inicial Escolar
September 3, 2008
If you take a look at sample DELE Nivel Inicial exams, you will notice that some of them are marked with the word Escolar. Escolar, as basic language intuition suggests, means ‘school‘. Every independent student such as I will ask ‘So they are easier or what?‘.
Well… it turns out to be quite a challenge to judge whether they are. The vocab items used in Escolar tests are not much different than on regular tests. I couldn’t say difficulty is an issue here.
As for my scores, the Escolar ones are on average:
2% better in Reading,
9% better in Listening,
10% worse in Spanish in Use.
So… is there a real difference in level? Probably not. That’s good news because in this way I have three more sample tests to learn from!
