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 in 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.
Information for Candidates
These short booklets explain what's in the exam in more detail.
Download the YLE Starters Information for Candidates (English)
(1.2 Mb)
Download the YLE Starters Information for Candidates (Spanish) (1.3 Mb)
Download the YLE Starters Information for Candidates (Portuguese) (743 Kb)
Download the YLE Starters Information for Candidates (Japanese) (1.3 Mb)
Download the YLE Starters Information for Candidates (Italian) (2.2 Mb)
Sample Papers
Download the YLE Starters Listening sample paper (546 Kb)
Download the YLE Starters Listening mp3 files 
(10 Mb)
Download the YLE Starters Reading and Writing sample paper (570 Kb)
Download the YLE Starters Speaking sample test (219 Kb)
