How do I check my CIPLE exam results online?

On CAPLE's own results page, using your número de candidato, the candidate number issued when your registration was confirmed. It is an alphanumeric code, not your ID number and not your registration reference. Nobody emails or texts you when results appear, so checking the page is entirely on you.

Updated September 2026 · 2 min read

What you need

Your número de candidato. It looks something like 2601AB12345. It is not your identification document number and it is not your registration reference, which is why people who assume they can use their passport number get stuck.

Some centres also allow a lookup using your identification document number instead, so it is worth trying if the candidate number has gone missing.

If you cannot find your candidate number

Work through these in order:

The registration confirmation email. The code is sent when your registration is confirmed. Search your inbox and your spam folder for messages from CAPLE or from your centre.
Your registration form. The code is printed on it.
Your centre. Contact the LAPE where you sat the exam. They hold the registration records and can tell you your number.

Print it the day you find it

The results page has a print button, and the view behind it shows the quantitative and partial results rather than just the headline classification. Save that as a PDF immediately.

There are two reasons this matters. First, it is the only record you have until the certificate arrives, which is weeks away. Second, the partial percentages per language activity are the only diagnostic feedback CAPLE will ever release.

What you will not see

CAPLE states plainly in its exam regulations that it does not give detailed information about the quality of a candidate's performance. You will never see your marked script, the examiner's notes, which questions you got wrong, or any comment on your speaking test.

So if you are planning a resit, those partial percentages are all you have to plan with. Read them carefully, find the component that sank you, and target that.

Can I appeal or ask for a re-mark of my CIPLE result?

Yes. The process is called reapreciação. You must request it within 5 working days of results being published, it costs 25 euros which is not refunded whatever happens, and all components are re-marked by a different team rather than only the one you disagree with. Your score can move either way.

Can a good reading score make up for a bad speaking score?

Only up to a point. Components do compensate each other in the overall total, so strong reading lifts a weak component. But there is a hard floor of 25% in every component, and dropping below it fails the whole exam regardless of your total. Compensation stops exactly there.

How is the CIPLE exam weighted between the components?

Reading and writing are marked together as one component worth 45%. Listening is worth 30%. Speaking is worth 25%. Reading and writing are therefore almost half the grade, and they are also the most improvable, which is why preparation time is usually best spent there first.