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Business Language Testing Service

The Business Language Testing Service (BULATS) was an English language test provided by Cambridge English Language Assessment. It has been officially retired on 6 December 2019. It assesses the level of a person in a used language and in a professional context. This foreign language skills assessment is validated by a two-years valid certificate. The languages evaluated are English, German (in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut), Spanish (in collaboration with the University of Salamanca) and French (in collaboration with the Alliance Française).

It's an online test that gives a score between 0 and 100, giving a direct equivalence with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages levels.

BULATS scoreLevel descriptionCEFR level
90-100Upper advancedC2
75-89AdvancedC1
60-74Upper intermediateB2
40-59IntermediateB1
20-39ElementaryA2
10-19BeginnerA1
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