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From 2021, candidates sitting selected foreign language listening exams will submit their answers on a multiple-choice answer sheet. They will not submit them on the question paper. At the end of the exam candidates will have six minutes to transfer their answers from the question paper onto the multiple-choice answer sheet.
Centres should not return the question papers to us. The multiple-choice answer sheets must be returned in the script packet envelope provided.
Below are some FAQs and a sample multiple-choice answer sheet.
From the March 2021 series, candidates sitting the following Cambridge exams will submit their answers on a multiple-choice answer sheet. (Where component ‘01’ is mentioned, it includes all variants of component ‘01’ where applicable. For example, 11, 12, 13.)
At the end of the exam, candidates will have six minutes to transfer their answers from the question paper onto the multiple-choice answer sheet.
The total exam time is approximately 50 minutes. This includes six minutes at the end of the exam for candidates to transfer their answers from the question paper onto the multiple-choice answer sheet. The six minutes’ transfer time is included in the recorded material that we provide for the listening exam.
The answer on the multiple-choice answer sheet will be taken as the candidates’ final answer. Candidates are strongly advised to check carefully to make sure they have correctly transferred all of their answers onto the multiple-choice answer sheet. The six minutes’ transfer time has been designed to allow candidates enough time to transfer and check their answer.
We strongly recommend that candidates first answer on the question paper. They should use the six minutes’ transfer time to transfer their answers onto the multiple-choice answer sheet.
You must give the candidate everything at the start of the test – the question paper and the multiple-choice answer sheet.
Yes. If you have applied for an access arrangement to allow a candidate to have extra time in their exam, they will also have extra time to transfer their answers. They will get the same percentage of time e.g. if they get 25% extra time for the exam, they also get 25% extra time to transfer their answers from the question paper to the multiple-choice answer sheet.
All candidate multiple-choice answer sheets, including those for absent or withdrawn candidates, must be returned to Cambridge in the script packet envelope provided. See section 5.4 of the Cambridge Handbook for instructions on packing and sending scripts.
The question papers should not be returned to Cambridge. They should be collected at the end of the exam and stored securely until at least 24 hours after the end of the exam or Key Time, whichever is later.
An example of the Multiple-choice answer sheet (PDF, 399KB)
Chinese Listening (0547) multiple answer booklet example (PDF, 347KB)