30 minutes
Speaking
Short personal prompts and sentence completions. Human evaluators score clarity, pronunciation, and answer quality.
BIB exam guide
What the Dutch BIB exam asks you to do
A plain-English explainer of the Basisexamen inburgering buitenland and the study areas Anais is designed to support.
Focused prep
Clear exam-specific guidance without turning into a generic Dutch course.
Every public page explains one search intent clearly, then points back into the product.
Exam overview
Three components, one A1 prep problem
The Basisexamen inburgering buitenland is taken before entry to the Netherlands for many MVV applicants. It is computer-based and usually taken at a Dutch embassy or consulate abroad.
All three components must be passed: speaking, reading, and KNS. They can be retaken independently, but the prep burden is different for each one.
Anais is built for English-fluent learners who want a focused A1 prep flow instead of a broad Dutch course with unrelated content.
That means controlled vocabulary, exam-aware speaking and reading practice, and a dedicated KNS memory loop.
Exam components
How the exam is structured
35 minutes
Reading
Nineteen multiple-choice questions across short functional texts. The public pass mark is 14 out of 19.
30 minutes
KNS
Thirty binary-choice questions drawn from the official 100-question pool. The public pass mark is 21 out of 30.
Product fit
How Anais helps with each part
Speaking prep
Practice the kinds of prompts the exam uses, especially the short-answer and sentence-completion formats that are hard to rehearse with static materials.
Reading prep
Train on short practical texts with multiple-choice questions so the reading section feels familiar instead of abstract.
KNS recall
Use repeated review for the memorization-heavy part of the exam instead of rereading the same official material without retention tracking.
Next step
Start preparing for the BIB with a tighter study loop
Use a focused prep flow built around vocabulary, speaking, reading, and KNS instead of scattering your practice across generic resources.