6 September 2026 · Sara Marugan
The official C1 and C2 results are out (and the phone didn't stop)
This article was machine-translated from Sara's Catalan original. The writing is hers; the translation has not been reviewed by a person. Read the Catalan original →
On Tuesday 2 September the official results of the Catalan exams from the Direcció General de Política Lingüística came out: the C1 and the C2.
Anyone who has ever sat an official exam knows what that day is like. You check your email every ten minutes, you refresh the page, and when the document finally opens your eyes go straight to a single word.
And that day the messages started coming in. Students of mine sending me their result with the word right up front: Apte (pass).
I'm not telling you this to give myself a medal. I'm telling you because, behind each one of those documents, there are months of work that nobody sees: essays handed back with half a page of comments, dictations repeated until the rule comes out on its own, and plenty of days of going back to it when what you really felt like was calling it a day.
An official Catalan exam isn't won on the day of the test. It's won in the months before, and it's won by knowing exactly what scores points and what gets penalised in each area.
To everyone who has passed: congratulations. The result is yours.
And to those for whom it wasn't to be this time: it doesn't mean you don't know your Catalan. It means there is one specific area to work on and another exam session ahead. Write to me and let's look together at what happened, which is exactly what I know how to do.
