Young Learners English (YLE) Starters
Welcome to the YLE Starters Home page, where parents can find all the information they need to help their child start preparing for YLE Starters!
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YLE Starters | YLE Movers | YLE Flyers | KET for Schools | PET for Schools | FCE for Schools
ABOUT YLE STARTERS
Starters is the first level of the Young Learners English Tests (Starters, Movers and Flyers) from Cambridge ESOL.
What's in YLE Starters?
The table below shows you a summary of the different papers of YLE Starters. You can also view the YLE Starters papers in more detail.
| Paper | Content | Time | Marks (% of total) |
|---|---|---|---|
 Listening |
4 parts/20 questions | about 20 minutes | a maximum of five Shields |
 Reading and Writing |
5 parts/25 questions | 20 minutes | a maximum of five Shields |
 Speaking |
5 parts | 3 - 5 minutes | a maximum of five Shields |
SUPPORT FOR YLE STARTERS
To help you get started, Cambridge ESOL have lots of FREE material which you can download for YLE Starters.
YLE Starters Information for Candidates (English)
(1.2 Mb)
YLE Starters Information for Candidates (Spanish) (1.3 Mb)
YLE Starters Information for Candidates (Portuguese) (743 Kb)
YLE Starters Information for Candidates (Japanese) (1.3 Mb)
YLE Starters Information for Candidates (Italian) (2.2 Mb)
YLE Starters Information for Candidates (Arabic) (2 Mb)
Sample Papers
YLE Starters Listening sample paper (546 Kb)
YLE Starters Listening mp3 files 
(10 Mb)
YLE Starters Reading and Writing sample paper (570 Kb)
YLE Starters Speaking sample test (219 Kb)
