What is the format of Luisteren at A2?

45 minutes on a computer, including questions about short film clips.

What is the format of Schrijven at A2?

40 minutes, on paper. Four assignments, such as filling in a form or writing a short message.

What is the format of Spreken at A2?

35 minutes on a computer. Since 1 March 2025 this is spoken answers only; the multiple-choice section was removed.

What is the format of KNM at no CEFR level?

45 minutes, multiple choice, on knowledge of Dutch society.

What is the format of ONA at not applicable?

Orientation on the Dutch labour market, if your obligation started on or after 1 January 2015. Note that course supply for ONA is drying up, and municipalities may offer the newer labour market module instead, after which DUO can grant an ONA exemption.

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Your permit is from before 2022

Your residence right was announced before 1 January 2022, and you were already required to integrate at that point.

The short answer

You sit the inburgeringsexamen at A2 level, run by DUO. You stay under the old 2013 law even though it has been replaced.

Who runs it

DUO, booked flexibly through Mijn Inburgering rather than on fixed dates.

What you actually sit

Part	Level	Format
Lezen	A2	65 minutes on a computer.
Luisteren	A2	45 minutes on a computer, including questions about short film clips.
Schrijven	A2	40 minutes, on paper. Four assignments, such as filling in a form or writing a short message.
Spreken	A2	35 minutes on a computer. Since 1 March 2025 this is spoken answers only; the multiple-choice section was removed.
KNM	no CEFR level	45 minutes, multiple choice, on knowledge of Dutch society.
ONA	not applicable	Orientation on the Dutch labour market, if your obligation started on or after 1 January 2015. Note that course supply for ONA is drying up, and municipalities may offer the newer labour market module instead, after which DUO can grant an ONA exemption.

Why this applies to you

Article 54 of the Wet inburgering 2021 keeps everyone who was already required to integrate on 31 December 2021 under the 2013 law. There is no clause that moves you across to the new system and no date on which the old obligation lapses.
The 2013 law required all exams at A2 or higher. Diplomas issued under it carry no level notation, because A2 was simply the standard.

Money, deadlines and booking

Missing your deadline does not end the obligation. DUO's own wording is that a fine starts a fresh two-year term to pass the exam, and if that term also passes, the fine is repeated.
You took out a DUO loan of up to 10,000 euro to pay for your course. Whether it has to be repaid depends on your situation.
A Staatsexamen NT2 Programma I or II diploma also satisfies this obligation, and it is worth more later for study and work. Some people deliberately sit that instead of the A2 exam.

Practicing for the A2 exam with Kora

Kora covers all five parts of the A2 inburgeringsexamen, including the Spreken format as it has been since March 2025. The questions are reworded every session, so you learn the material rather than memorising a fixed set of answers.

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Where this comes from

Every statement on this page is drawn from official Dutch government sources. We have linked each one so you can check it yourself, and so you can see what we could not verify: where an official source does not publish a figure, we leave it out rather than repeat a number from elsewhere.

Dutch integration rules change. If a source above now says something different from this page, the source is right and we want to know.

Kora is an independent study app. We are not DUO, CvTE or the IND, and we cannot book exams, process applications or make decisions about your case. For anything about your own situation, use the official sources linked above or contact your municipality.