This free English vocabulary test in PDF format may be used by teachers and schools to check a student's English vocabulary level. The test is based on the Barton English Vocabulary Test, which students can take online here.
This test is five pages, with each page corresponding to a CEFR level. These levels are as follows:
Each level has 15 questions. The difficulty of each word was determined by the English Vocabulary Profile (EVP) for levels A2-B2 and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) for the final levels.
Students should get 70% of the answers correct to complete a level, which is a minimum score of 11/15.
| A2 | B1 | B2 | C1 | C2 |
| 1/c | 1/a | 1/b | 1/c | 1/c |
| 2/b | 2/b | 2/d | 2/c | 2/d |
| 3/a | 3/b | 3/b | 3/b | 3/a |
| 4/d | 4/c | 4/a | 4/d | 4/b |
| 5/c | 5/c | 5/c | 5/c | 5/b |
| 6/a | 6/d | 6/c | 6/c | 6/b |
| 7/b | 7/d | 7/c | 7/a | 7/c |
| 8/a | 8/c | 8/b | 8/b | 8/c |
| 9/d | 9/d | 9/c | 9/c | 9/d |
| 10/c | 10/a | 10/c | 10/c | 10/c |
| 11/a | 11/b | 11/c | 11/c | 11/c |
| 12/c | 12/d | 12/c | 12/b | 12/a |
| 13/b | 13/c | 13/b | 13/b | 13/c |
| 14/d | 14/d | 14/c | 14/d | 14/c |
| 15/c | 15/a | 15/a | 15/b | 15/d |
The test may be freely photocopied for educational purposes. I have purposely not branded it for ease of use. Please do not edit, brand, or modify for redistribution.
I hope you find this printable test useful for your classes. If you find a mistake, please leave a comment below so I can update the document and PDF.
-- Matthew Barton of Englishcurrent.com (copyright)
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