Free Practice Questions for PAU Spanish Language and Literature II (Cantabria)

No, and it is important to know the difference. The official Cantabria PAU paper for Lengua Castellana y Literatura II is a 90-minute exam sat in Spanish and built around a journalistic/opinion text plus a literary text chosen from the region's assigned reading works. Candidates write a text commentary (summary, theme and structure, text typology and discourse mode with linguistic justification, attitude and intentionality, and personal evaluation), answer cuestiones de lengua on syntax, morphology, and lexical-semantic value, and produce a literary-analysis answer. Under the CRUE-agreed 2026 PAU design rules, open and extended written responses dominate the paper, so the real exam contains no multiple-choice section. This bank is an English-language multiple-choice study adaptation of the same official 2º Bachillerato syllabus — not an official translation, not a past paper, and not a simulation of the exam format. Use it to drill the underlying knowledge and reasoning quickly, then practice writing full Spanish-language text commentaries and extended literary answers separately, because that is what the examiners actually mark.

The official subject title is Lengua Castellana y Literatura II, one of the mandatory Phase 1 (fase de acceso) subjects for every 2º Bachillerato modality, regulated by the national LOMLOE curriculum and Cantabria's Orden 73/2022 (Boletin Oficial de Cantabria), and coordinated for the PAU by the University of Cantabria (UNICAN) PAU Organising Commission (COPAU).

Recent Cantabria papers have paired a journalistic opinion article (for example on themes like intolerance or current affairs) with a literary excerpt drawn from the region's officially assigned reading list, which has included works such as Carmen Laforet's 'Nada' and contemporary authors like Fernando Aramburu. The exact reading-list titles are set and updated by UNICAN each academic year.

The overall admission grade combines Bachillerato GPA (60%) and the PAU Access Phase mark (40%), and a minimum of 4.0 in the Access Phase is required to combine with the Bachillerato average for an overall score of at least 5.0. Since Lengua Castellana y Literatura II is a mandatory Phase 1 subject, it counts in every candidate's Access Phase average regardless of degree program.

The curriculum spans 20th-century Spanish literature from Modernismo and the Generation of '98 through the Generation of '27 (poets such as Antonio Machado and Federico Garcia Lorca), post-war and social poetry and novel (writers such as Camilo Jose Cela and Carmen Laforet), and 20th-century theatre, including Ramon Maria del Valle-Inclan's esperpento and Lorca's dramatic works.

In Cantabria, the official PAU examination paper for Lengua Castellana y Literatura II is written and answered in Spanish.

Language questions typically ask candidates to analyze the complete syntactic structure of a compound or complex sentence taken from the text, identify the value or function of a specific word class (such as the stylistic effect of adjectives or verb forms), or explain the contextual meaning of selected words or expressions.