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Registration and access to intermediate and higher FP 2022 - Luis Vives Study Center
[Updated 2025] ⭐ Everything you need to know about admission to FP Madrid

Hello, #Vivers! As every year, we accompany our students in the process of preparing for access tests to intermediate and higher level vocational training cycles. And, once they have passed the exam, we usually hold a round table to share the next steps that each student must take in order to register for the vocational training places offered by the Community of Madrid for the 2024-2025 academic year.

In this link You can find information related to registration for admission to intermediate and higher level FP training cycles. In it you will find the admission instructions, the planned calendar of actions and the educational offer.

You can access face-to-face, dual or bilingual modalities for higher-level training cycles. In the case of the intermediate degree cycles, they would simply be the face-to-face and dual modalities.

Registration dates for Higher Level and Intermediate Level FP Madrid 2024

Applications for enrollment in higher degree FP will be submitted from June 28 to July 4, 2024, both dates included.

Applications for admission to mid-level training cycles will be submitted from June 24 to July 1, 2024, both dates included.

It will be carried out online through the comprehensive RAÍCES educational management system. In this link you can complete the corresponding form application.

If you have decided to prepare for the exam for access to vocational training cycles, intermediate or higher level, during the 2024-2025 school year, you can find out about our courses in the following link.

Furthermore, in this video we leave you everything you need to know to be able to present yourself.

If you want more detailed information, you can write to us at academia@luis-vives.es, also to our WhatsApp or, if you prefer, use our form contact.

Adelante!

Intermediate grade access test 2023. Luis Vives Study Center
[Updated 2025] ⭐ Information on access to intermediate level training cycles

Hello, #Vivers! Today we bring you the latest information about the access tests that you prepare with us. The Community of Madrid has published the registration dates for the intermediate level vocational training entrance exam exams for the 2025 year.

The registration period will probably be open in January 2025.

The exams, in the Community of Madrid, will surely be called in May 2025.

Here You can consult all the official information about this year's test.

Documentation necessary for registration in the 2025 middle grade access tests

First of all, you can download the registration application for the 2025 intermediate grade access test, in the following website. To take the 2025 middle-grade entrance exam, you will need to submit the following documentation:

  • Application for registration.
  • Original and copy of the national identity document or foreign identity document, or passport.
  • Document of exceptions or the surpassed parts of the year 2009 and later carried out in the Community of Madrid. 

You can register in person at any of the institutes that appear in Annex IV of the order of the Community of Madrid, or electronically at this link.

If you want to know all the information about the test: requirements, areas, scoring system, etc., you can consult This Video. Our coordinator of the Intermediate Grade Access and Obtaining the ESO Degree courses, Lara, explains what both tests consist of, and what the main differences between them are. You can also consult this article from our blog in which we tell you what the exams are like in the different areas of the test.

For those interested in preparing for the 2025 middle grade entrance exam, on January 9 we begin our intensive preparation course for access to FP. If you want more detailed information, you can write to us at academia@luis-vives.es. Also to our WhatsApp or, if you prefer, use our form contact.

Exams for access to middle grade 2023 - Luis Vives Study Center
[Updated 2025]⭐What are the entrance exams for Intermediate Level in Madrid like?

Hello! If you are going to take the test in Madrid to obtain your ESO, it is very likely that you have also signed up for the ESO exams. access test to medium-grade vocational training cycles. Keep reading, because we are going to tell you what the exams are like, and give you some advice in case you are a little lost.

And if you don't feel like reading, you can always watch our video in which Lara explains what the intermediate level vocational training entrance exams are like and gives you some important advice.

Scopes and exams of the access tests to Intermediate Vocational Training Cycles in Madrid

The free tests to access medium-grade FP cycles have three areas, but you will have to take five exams:

  • Social Domain: an examination of Geography and History.
  • Scientific-Technological Area: two exams: one in Mathematics and another in Sciences: Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Technology.
  • Communication Area: two exams: one for Spanish Language and Literature, and another for English.

On the day of the exam you must bring your identity document (DNI), and you must turn off your cell phone and put it away. Also, remember that the exams are taken with a pen (blue or black), pencils are not allowed.

We go there, we explain what each area is like and we give you a couple of tips:

Social ambit 

The Social exam has contents of Geography and History.

  • Length: approximately 8 questions.
  • Duration: 90 minutes.

Tips:

  • In Geography you must know concepts and definitions of the syllabus. Study the different units of the syllabus in a practical way. You can use physical and political maps to organize your ideas, make summary tables or exercises to match terms and definitions.
  • In History you must know the dates, but you must also understand the historical events, their relationship and in what order they occurred. Pay special attention to the names of relevant people and even their physical features, because they may ask you questions through images.

Scientific-Technological Area

This area consists of two exams:

  • Math.
  • Sciences and technology: Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Technology. 

The Maths exam:

  • Length: approximately 5 questions.
  • Duration: 90 minutes.
  • IMPORTANT! In previous years, the use of non-programmable calculators was allowed.

Tips:

  • You must take great care of order and cleanliness. Likewise, remember to clearly indicate the answer to each question.
  • We know it is not easy, but try to be agile in arithmetic operations.
  • There are many parts of the syllabus that are repeated over the years: proportionality, geometry, probability, equations and functions, and arithmetic (fractions, combined operations, etc.). To do this, check the exams from previous years.

The Science exam:

  • Length: approximately 5 questions.
  • Duration: 90 minutes.
  • IMPORTANT! In previous years, the use of non-programmable calculators was allowed.

Tips:

  • Many of the exercises are solved quickly with the application of a formula. Spend time memorizing the formulas of the syllabus, write them down a thousand and one times and use mnemonic rules to learn them. When you get to the exam, detect which questions require the application of a formula, and write it down before starting to do the exercise, making sure you don't make a mistake.
  • Other questions consist of filling in gaps or knowing definitions. During your study, spend time in your notebook writing the most important terms, as well as knowing their definition. Even try to define these terms in your own words.

Communication Area: Spanish Language and Literature

  • Length: approximately 7 questions. 
  • Duration: 90 minutes.

Tips:

  • It is very important that you practice the spelling rules: bov, with ho without it, accent marks, etc. You already know the best way to practice this: READ. You can read books, but also magazines, comics or even articles like this (or on more interesting topics).
  • It is not a very long exam. Therefore, spend as much time as you need to read the text they give you, to familiarize yourself with it.

Communication Area: English

  • Length: approximately 5 questions.
  • Duration: BEWARE! 60 minutes.

Tips:

  • English is not your native language, so you should take care of your handwriting more than ever.
  • Read the text calmly and pay full attention. If you don't understand it at first, read it again, you will see that as you read it you will understand more and more parts.
  • Just as a great help in Language was reading, in English it will help you a lot to listen to music in English while reading its lyrics, or watch movies while reading the subtitles.
  • At the end of the exam you have to write an essay. Practice it by making lots of them, and give them to your teacher so they can correct them for you.

If you are already clear about what the intermediate vocational training entrance exam in Madrid is like, now is the most fun thing for you: PREPARE. To do this, you can check our solved exams on the blog, as well as the videos that our teachers have prepared with the resolution of the exams.

Good luck… for that!

Differences between the intermediate level entrance exam and the free tests to obtain the ESO Graduate degree - Centro de Estudios Luis Vives
[Updated 2025]⭐Differences between ESO Title and Access to Intermediate Degree

Hello, #Vivers! One of the most requested courses at our Madrid academy is the course to obtain the official ESO graduate degree (compulsory secondary education). The majority of students who take the ESO free test also take the exam for access to middle-grade training cycles. This is so since both exams are very similar, and in many cases these students seek to continue their academic development through official technical education. As you know, the completion of a medium-level training cycle allows direct access to a higher-level training cycle that belongs to the same option.

In the video that we show you below, our colleague Lara, coordinator of the Preparation courses for obtaining the Graduate Degree in ESO and preparation courses for the intermediate level cycle access test exam, explains the differences between both tests:

Comparison between the free tests to obtain the ESO Graduate degree and the intermediate level FP access tests

In the following table, you can also see the comparison between both tests:

ESO titleIntermediate grade entrance test
Requirements to present
  • Be 18 years of age, or turn XNUMX in the year in which the test is performed.
  • Not be enrolled in any institute to obtain the ESO in the same school year in which you want to take the test.
  • Be 17 years of age, or turn XNUMX in the year in which the test is performed.
Annual calls2 (March and May)1 (usually in May)
Test StructureIt is divided into three areas:
  • Communication: Language and English.
  • Social: Geography and History.
  • Scientific-technological: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Technology.
It is divided into three areas:
  • Communication: Language and English.
  • Social: Geography and History.
  • Scientific-technological: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Technology.
QualificationsThe three areas are rated separatelyJoint qualification: PASS OR NOT PASS
ExemptionsThere are some ways to be exempt from any of the areas in the two tests. For the ESO degree, you can be exempt from some area if you have passed those subjects in the 4th year of ESO, or in previous calls for the free test. In access to intermediate grade, too. In addition, you can remove the Science part of access to the intermediate degree if you prove work experience of more than one year.

Main differences between both tests

As you can see, the differences between both tests are minimal, so it is always recommended that you take both, if you can.

Remember that it is essential that the preparation and programming of studies focus on passing the three areas.

We hope that the differences between both tests have become clear to you. If you want more information about this, you can consult the official website of the Community of Madrid.

Good luck with the study!