These Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth
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 Portsmouth
Technopole Centre, Kingston Cres, North End,, PO2 8FA
Pearson
Pearson Professional Centres-UK Portsmouth
Ground Floor Annex - Enterprise House, Isambard Brunel Road, PO1 2AF
Trinity College London
Portsmouth
23 Queen Street, PO1 3HN
That is 3 centres from three of the four approved providers: IELTS SELT Consortium runs 1 of its 16 UK centres here, Pearson runs 1 of its 22 UK centres here and Trinity College London runs 1 of its 20 UK centres here. Their postcodes fall in PO1 and PO2.
Booking a Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth.
IELTS SELT Consortium
1 centre in PortsmouthExam 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.
Pearson
1 centre in PortsmouthExam 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
1 centre in PortsmouthExam to book: Graded Examinations in Spoken English (GESE) Grade 5 — B1, speaking and listening
Fee: £160 for any GESE exam, including the B1 GESE Grade 5. £200 for ISE exams. An optional add-on called Exam Protect costs £35 on top of the exam fee and allows the candidate to book one retake and reschedule once.
LanguageCert does not list a Portsmouth 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. Trinity candidates sitting GESE must also complete a Topic Form in advance and bring it. 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 Portsmouth has nothing free
Any approved centre in the UK can be booked, so a full diary in Portsmouth is not a dead end. The largest of the other listed places in South East England is Milton Keynes, with 1 centre. These are ordered by how many centres each holds, not by distance — the file carries no coordinates, so no journey time is implied.
- Milton Keynes 1 centre · LanguageCert
- Oxford 1 centre · Pearson
- Southampton 1 centre · LanguageCert
- 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
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.
Portsmouth centre questions
How many B1 English test centres are there in Portsmouth?
The Home Office list dated 11 August 2026 records 3 centres in Portsmouth, run by IELTS SELT Consortium, Pearson and Trinity College London. IELTS SELT Consortium lists BC Portsmouth at Technopole Centre, Kingston Cres, North End,, PO2 8FA. Pearson lists Pearson Professional Centres-UK Portsmouth at Ground Floor Annex - Enterprise House, Isambard Brunel Road, PO1 2AF. Trinity College London lists Portsmouth at 23 Queen Street, PO1 3HN.
Where do I book a B1 English test in Portsmouth?
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 Portsmouth that means IELTS SELT Consortium, Pearson and Trinity College London, each with its own booking system, fees and dates.
Can I take the Life in the UK Test at these Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth rows of the Home Office spreadsheet, downloaded and parsed rather than copied from another site, and the pages of IELTS SELT Consortium, Pearson and Trinity College London 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.
- PTE Home B1 UK test — Pearson PTE — accessed 13 August 2026.
- B1 English test (GESE Grade 5) — Trinity College London — accessed 13 August 2026.
- Trinity: exam bookings online — Trinity College London SELT booking service — accessed 13 August 2026.
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