EPSO sample tests: which languages each official one actually exists in

You will sit your EPSO reasoning tests in Language 1 — which can be any of the 24 official EU languages — and your EU knowledge, digital skills and EUFTE tests in Language 2. So the reasonable next step is to open the official sample tests in the language you actually chose, and see the format in the words you will meet on the day.

That step is where most candidates discover something nobody writes down: the official sample tests are not all available in all 24 languages, the coverage differs from test to test, and two EPSO pages describe the same reasoning samples differently. Here is the whole map, read off EPSO's own pages on 26 August 2026.

In which languages does each official EPSO sample test exist?

The 24 languages, where the full list is offered, are the ones EPSO prints on the page: BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, GA, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV.

Why do two EPSO pages disagree about abstract reasoning?

They do not contradict each other so much as describe two different packages, and it is worth stating the difference precisely rather than picking one.

EPSO's standalone Reasoning tests sample page splits the three skills into three separate samples and labels them one by one: «Verbal Reasoning – Available in the following languages: BG ES CS …», the same list for numerical, and then «Abstract Reasoning – Available in: EN». Both contract-staff pages — FG I–II and FG III–IV — carry that identical wording.

The AD5 Graduates page does not split them. It offers one reasoning sample per language and says «Here you can find sample tests in all 24 EU languages to familiarise yourself with the OAT testing platform», followed by 24 language links.

So: if you approach the samples through the generic reasoning page or through either contract-staff page, abstract reasoning is available to you in English and in no other language. If you approach them through the AD5 Graduates page, you get a sample in your own language. Either way, one thing is stable and checkable: the only place EPSO publishes a per-skill language list, abstract reasoning is the single entry that reads «EN».

Does this matter if my Language 1 is not English?

It matters most on the test where you have least room. The notice of competition for EPSO/AD/427/26 gives abstract reasoning 10 questions in 10 minutes — 60 seconds per item, the tightest budget in the competition, against 105 seconds for verbal and 120 for numerical. Abstract reasoning is also the test EPSO describes as assessing relationships between concepts «that are not linguistic, spatial, or numerical in nature», so the item itself carries almost no text.

That combination is why the gap is smaller than it looks and still worth knowing: an English-only abstract sample is largely usable whatever your Language 1, because there is little language in it. What is not usable is the assumption that the sample counts as preparation. EPSO says so itself on the same site: the examples «are not training materials», and EPSO «does not offer preparatory courses or endorse any external publications or training services».

What about the EUFTE, which is sat in Language 2?

This is the sharpest asymmetry on the list, and the one almost nobody states. Under the notice, the EUFTE is written in Language 2 — a language chosen from the remaining 23 official EU languages, at a minimum B2 level. Nothing in the notice restricts Language 2 to English, French or German.

The official EUFTE sample test, however, exists in two versions only: Written Test – EN and Written Test – FR. If your Language 2 is Italian, Greek, Romanian, Spanish, Polish or any of the other eighteen, there is no official sample of the 40-minute essay in the language you will actually write it in. You can still use the English or French sample to see the interface and the countdown, but not to rehearse in your own Language 2.

What can I check for myself right now?

Everything above is one click away and takes about five minutes:

• Open the reasoning sample page and read the three availability lines under verbal, numerical and abstract.
• Open the AD5 Graduates page and count the language links under the reasoning tests.
• Scroll the same page to the EUFTE section and note that there are exactly two written-test links.
• Open the accessible-version page and read the first sentence: accessible versions are «currently … only available in English», and the AD page lists verbal and numerical only.

If any of this changes, the pages themselves are the record, not this article.

Where to go from here

Two official samples confirm a format. They do not build the speed the format demands, and EPSO is explicit that they were never meant to. The practice you need is in the language you will sit in, in the shape of the notice, and on a clock.

PassEPSO provides exactly that: timed verbal, numerical and abstract practice in all 24 official EU languages, an explanation for every item you get wrong, and full simulations in the format of the notice. See also the one-page reference of every official AD5 figure and which test is sat in Language 1 and which in Language 2.

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