The specialist field test
What it measures
It is the only test that asks about your field: law, ICT, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence or whatever the notice sets. You sit it in your language 2, and it usually carries the highest pass mark in the process.
Official format
AD level
- Field-related questions
- 30 questions · 40 min
- Pass mark · Field-related questions
- 15/30
Format taken from eur-lex.europa.eu · verified on September 10, 2026
AST level
- Field-related questions
- 30 questions · 40 min
- Pass mark · Field-related questions
- 15/30
Format taken from eur-lex.europa.eu · verified on September 10, 2026
What the questions look like
Professional-level multiple choice
Questions from one professional to another, with no teaching detours: a case, four or five options and only one defensible. The vocabulary of the field is taken as known.
The scope is not "the subject": it is the syllabus the notice publishes, which narrows things far more than you would expect.
Where people lose it
- Studying the field in the abstract. The notice says what is in; anything not on that list is not asked.
- Underestimating the pass mark. In specialist competitions it is usually the highest in the process: scraping through here is not enough.
- Preparing in your own language and sitting it in language 2. Technical vocabulary in another language is paid for in minutes.
- Trusting an old edition. In fast-moving fields — data protection, AI, cybersecurity — the framework changes between notices.
How you practise here
Here you sit it with the questions of the field you pick, its minutes and the EPSO interface. Only fields with a published exam are sold; the rest show as coming soon, not as available.
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Illustration generated with AI · Google Gemini (Nano Banana 2), cuenta del propietario · 2026-09-22