Test dates, fees and locations

ATTENTION TO THOSE NON-HUNGARIAN CITIZENS WHO RESIDE OUTSIDE OF HUNGARY - Please note that the Hungarian government has decided to close the country's borders from 1 September provisionally for 30 days. As a main rule, from 1 September non-Hungarian citizens will not be allowed to enter Hungary. Please check thoroughly the most up-to-date travel restrictions/exemptions as once you booked and paid for your test, we cannot accept cancellation and refund requests based on that reason if the travel restriction that applies to the test taker was already known at the time of the registration.

We are launching a new registration site for paper based IELTS tests and the test dates from November will be opened there. The new site will launch in mid-September, and we will open the sessions once the new site is live. In the meantime please check the computer-delivered registration site, too as there might still be available places for our September-October sessions there. Thank you for your patience. 

The British Council in Hungary offers IELTS tests in two locations: Budapest and Szeged, with up to two test dates per month.

Find out which test is best for you, and choose between our paper-based and computer-delivered tests, which are both delivered in one of our official test centres.

You can now book your IELTS test online.

IELTS test fees

Information about exam fee rebate

From January 2018 successful language exam takers can claim money back from the Hungarian government. Please note as IELTS is not accredited in Hungary it is not possible to claim cost rebate for successful exams. Rebate can only be claimed for the value of nostrification.

Further information on that can be found here.