N1 Listening Skills

55 minutes (the Listening time since the December 2022 test).

0–60 points, with at least 19 needed, in addition to 100 of 180 overall.

Five: task-based comprehension, comprehension of key points, comprehension of general outline, quick response, and integrated comprehension.

Understand coherent conversations, news reports and lectures at natural speed in a broad range of settings, following ideas, relationships between people, logical structure and essential points.

Extracting the information needed to solve a specific problem and understanding what action to take — typically what a person will do next or first.

Narrowing down to the key points, such as a reason or the speaker's real concern, using information given in advance (the question and choices are presented before the talk).