These Cambridge addresses are not Life in the UK test centres
Every address below is an English language test centre, approved for the B1 Secure English Language Test. The Life in the UK Test is a separate exam, at separate venues, booked through a separate service and paid for separately — arriving at the wrong building costs you the appointment and the fee.
Nor is there a published list to compare this one with: GOV.UK states: "There are over 30 test centres in the UK. You can choose where to take your test when you book." Life in the UK venues are shown only inside the official booking service. How to find your Life in the UK test centre.
Approved centres in Cambridge
Provider, centre name and address are reproduced exactly as the Home Office file records them. The file marks approval, not availability, so the dates each centre has free are visible only in that provider’s own booking system.
IELTS SELT Consortium
BC Cambridge
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus, East Road, CB1 1PT
LanguageCert
LC - Cambridge
87-89 Cherry Hinton Road, CB1 7BS
Pearson
Pearson Professional Centres-UK Cambridge
Second Floor, St Andrews House, 59, St.Andrews Street, CB2 3BZ
That is 3 centres from three of the four approved providers: IELTS SELT Consortium runs 1 of its 16 UK centres here, LanguageCert runs 1 of its 22 UK centres here and Pearson runs 1 of its 22 UK centres here. Their postcodes fall in CB1 and CB2.
Booking a Cambridge centre
There is no central booking service for the English test: you book with the provider that runs the centre, in the name on the original photo identity document you will bring to it. These are the providers with a centre in Cambridge.
IELTS SELT Consortium
1 centre in CambridgeExam to book: IELTS Life Skills – B1 Speaking & Listening
Fee: IELTS does not publish a single UK price for Life Skills on ielts.org. The test is delivered by the consortium's partner centres and the fee is shown at the point of booking, so we have not stated a figure. Anyone quoting a fixed IELTS Life Skills price is quoting one centre, not a national rate.
LanguageCert
1 centre in CambridgeExam to book: LanguageCert International ESOL SELT B1 (Speaking & Listening)
Fee: From £160 for the two-skills Speaking and Listening exams at A1, A2 and B1. From £200 for the four-skills Academic and General SELT exams. LanguageCert presents these as 'Price from', so the amount can vary by location.
Pearson
1 centre in CambridgeExam to book: PTE Home B1 — speaking and listening
Fee: Pearson does not publish a flat UK price. Its own FAQ directs candidates to 'the price finder tool at the top of this page, or on our test centers and fees page', and fees vary by country and may include local taxes. We have not invented a figure.
Trinity College London does not list a Cambridge centre in this edition of the list. You are free to book any approved centre in the UK, so that provider remains an option somewhere else — see all 80 centres.
On the day. Centres check identity and nothing else: take the original document you booked with, and nothing about your citizenship or settlement application. Which documents count, what to do if your name has changed or the Home Office is holding your passport, and how to ask for reasonable adjustments are all on the B1 English test guide.
If Cambridge has nothing free
Any approved centre in the UK can be booked, so a full diary in Cambridge is not a dead end. The largest of the other listed places in East of England is Peterborough, with 3 centres. These are ordered by how many centres each holds, not by distance — the file carries no coordinates, so no journey time is implied.
- Peterborough 3 centres · LanguageCert, Pearson and Trinity College London
- London 15 centres · IELTS SELT Consortium, LanguageCert, Pearson and Trinity College London
- Birmingham 5 centres · IELTS SELT Consortium, LanguageCert, Pearson and Trinity College London
- Manchester 5 centres · IELTS SELT Consortium, LanguageCert, Pearson and Trinity College London
- Leeds 4 centres · IELTS SELT Consortium, LanguageCert, Pearson and Trinity College London
- Bristol 3 centres · LanguageCert, Pearson and Trinity College London
Or browse all 80 approved centres across 27 towns and cities on the centre finder.
You need the Life in the UK Test as well
The B1 test settles one half of the knowledge of language and life requirement. The other half is the Life in the UK Test, booked through the official government service and free to practise here, with an explanation for every answer.
Cambridge centre questions
How many B1 English test centres are there in Cambridge?
The Home Office list dated 11 August 2026 records 3 centres in Cambridge, run by IELTS SELT Consortium, LanguageCert and Pearson. IELTS SELT Consortium lists BC Cambridge at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus, East Road, CB1 1PT. LanguageCert lists LC - Cambridge at 87-89 Cherry Hinton Road, CB1 7BS. Pearson lists Pearson Professional Centres-UK Cambridge at Second Floor, St Andrews House, 59, St.Andrews Street, CB2 3BZ.
Where do I book a B1 English test in Cambridge?
Not through GOV.UK — there is no central booking service for the English test. You book directly with the provider that runs the centre you want, in the name on the identity document you will bring. In Cambridge that means IELTS SELT Consortium, LanguageCert and Pearson, each with its own booking system, fees and dates.
Can I take the Life in the UK Test at these Cambridge addresses?
No. Every address on this page belongs to an English language test centre approved for the B1 SELT. The Life in the UK Test is a different exam with different venues and a different booking service, and no list of its centres is published: GOV.UK states: "There are over 30 test centres in the UK. You can choose where to take your test when you book."
Sources
The 3 centres above are the Cambridge rows of the Home Office spreadsheet, downloaded and parsed rather than copied from another site, and the pages of IELTS SELT Consortium, LanguageCert and Pearson were opened and read. Last reviewed 13 August 2026. Check the source file and the provider before you travel.
- Prove your English language abilities with a secure English language test (SELT) — GOV.UK guidance, last updated 12 August 2026 — accessed 13 August 2026.
- List of approved test centres in the UK, from August 2026 (ODS) — Home Office, dated 11 August 2026 — accessed 13 August 2026.
- List of approved secure English language tests taken in the UK (ODS) — Home Office — accessed 13 August 2026.
- List of approved test centres outside the UK, from August 2026 (ODS) — Home Office, dated 11 August 2026 — accessed 13 August 2026.
- Life in the UK Test: book the Life in the UK Test — GOV.UK — accessed 13 August 2026.
- IELTS for UKVI Life Skills: A1, A2 and B1 — ielts.org — accessed 13 August 2026.
- LANGUAGECERT ESOL SELT B1 Speaking and Listening — UKVI English test — accessed 13 August 2026.
- PTE Home B1 UK test — Pearson PTE — accessed 13 August 2026.
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