KPG Italian study guide
KPG Italian · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The KPG Italian exam (Kratiko Pistopoiitiko Glossomatheias) is Greece's state language proficiency certification, offered in Italian at multiple levels aligned with the CEFR. It is designed for learners who need documented proof of Italian proficiency for study, employment, migration, or professional licensing. The KPG Italian study guide has 5 sections and about 2,299 words.
01Listening comprehension (comprensione orale)
The KPG Italian listening module checks whether you can extract meaning from spoken Italian at your level: main idea, specific detail, speaker attitude, and inference, drawn from short exchanges, announcements and longer monologues. Tasks are typically multiple-choice, matching or short answer.
475 words, about 2 min02Reading comprehension (comprensione scritta)
The reading module works with real-world text types: notices, adverts, emails, instructions, forms, short articles. You must locate specific detail, follow an argument, and separate what a text states from what it merely implies.
435 words, about 2 min03Language structures and vocabulary (strutture e lessico)
This module checks control of Italian grammar in context - articles, prepositions, tense and mood, pronouns, agreement - plus lexical choice at word and collocation level. Items are typically gap-fill, sentence transformation or multiple choice.
460 words, about 2 min04Pragmatics and communication (pragmatica)
The pragmatics section asks whether you can choose language that fits the situation: register and forms of address, speech acts (requesting, apologising, refusing, complaining), conversational routines, and the conventions of Italian emails and letters. Items often present two or three versions of the same message and ask which is appropriate for a stated recipient.
450 words, about 2 min05Cultural knowledge (cultura italiana)
Cultural items check the background knowledge that Italian texts assume: geography and institutions, the national calendar, food and everyday habits, media and regional identity. Questions are usually embedded in a reading or listening text, so the culture point must be recognised quickly rather than recited.
479 words, about 2 min