Manual CCSE 2026 (PDF): the official free study material

The 2026 manual (Manual de preparación de la prueba CCSE 2026) is published by the Instituto Cervantes as a PDF that anyone can download for free. It is marked as © Instituto Cervantes 2025, all rights reserved, for personal use. Use the official link below instead of copies from other sites. The Instituto Cervantes also offers a free official app for Android and iPhone.

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The manual groups its questions in the same five tareas as the exam: government, legislation and civic participation; fundamental rights and duties; territorial organisation, physical and political geography; culture and history; and Spanish society. The 2026 edition has 300 questions: 120 in tarea 1, 36 in tarea 2, 24 in tarea 3, 36 in tarea 4 and 84 in tarea 5. Tarea 2 questions are true or false; the others have three options.

We do not copy the official wording or the answer options of the manual. Our questions test the same underlying facts about the Constitution, institutions, geography, culture and society, and our scores are estimates.

• Read one tarea at a time and understand each fact instead of memorising the letter of the answer.
• Test yourself on the same facts with our original questions, which are worded differently and explain why an answer is right.
• Take the timed mock test, 25 questions in 45 minutes, to check that you reach 15 correct answers.
• Use the free level check to see which tareas to review first.