AMFA Persian Language Proficiency Test study guide
AMFA Persian Language Proficiency Test · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The AMFA Persian Language Proficiency Test is a multi-skill credential for people who need documented evidence of Persian (Farsi) ability for study, employment, translation-adjacent work, or personal certification. It is aimed at non-native learners as well as heritage speakers who want an outside assessment of where they actually stand. The AMFA Persian Language Proficiency Test study guide has 6 sections and about 2,138 words.
01Listening Comprehension: Decoding Spoken Persian
Listening Comprehension plays short dialogues, announcements and monologues at natural speed, then asks what was said, what was implied, and what the speaker will do next. Marks are usually lost twice: once on spoken-only forms that never appear in textbooks, and once on Persian politeness, which delivers refusals indirectly.
368 words, about 2 min02Reading Comprehension: Working Without Vowels
Reading Comprehension gives you notices, news items, personal messages and short expository or literary extracts, then tests main idea, detail, inference and reference. Because ordinary Persian text is written without short-vowel diacritics, decoding is as much a vocabulary skill as a letter skill.
363 words, about 2 min03Grammar and Structure: Stems, Ezafe and Object Marking
Grammar and Structure tests explicit control of Persian morphology and syntax: word order, the ezafe, object marking, the tense/aspect system, agreement, subjunctive triggers, conditionals and passive formation. Items are typically sentence-level transformations or error identification.
335 words, about 2 min04Vocabulary and Idiomatic Usage: Collocation and Taarof
Vocabulary and Idiomatic Usage tests range and precision: word choice in context, register, collocation and the fixed expressions that carry most everyday meaning. The section rewards knowing how words combine, not memorising one-to-one glossaries.
346 words, about 2 min05Writing and Written Expression: Formal Register and Nیمفاصله
Writing and Written Expression asks you to produce connected formal Persian: a message, letter or email, a summary or paraphrase, and a short opinion text. Scoring weighs task completion, register, grammatical accuracy, spelling in correct Persian letters, punctuation and cohesion.
346 words, about 2 min06Speaking and Oral Proficiency: Stress, Politeness and Fluency
Speaking and Oral Proficiency is assessed in an interview-style task: a short self-introduction, a description of a picture or topic, a narration, an opinion with justification, and a role-play that tests polite interaction. Raters listen for intelligibility, control of the sound system, fluency, range and appropriateness of register.
380 words, about 2 min