Study Guide
A guide organised around the official CEnT-S syllabus, covering the format, the section timing and the wrong-answer penalty.
CEnT-S, CISIA English Test - Sciences
Know the CEnT-S before you sit it.
Structure, timing and scoring, taken from CISIA’s published material.
Free reference. The structure, timing and scoring below are taken from CISIA and need no account. The full format and syllabus pages, and the Neuron Prep study guide and question bank for CEnT-S, are all in development, with no date.
55 questionsin 5 sections
110 minutesfor those sections
+1 / −0.25correct / wrong. A blank scores 0.
5 optionsper question, one correct
Score calculator
Know what every answer does to your score.
Move the two sliders. Whatever is left of the paper counts as blank, so the three always add up. The marks are CEnT-S’s own.
Status: in development. The Neuron Prep Study Guide, Question Bank and Progress Tracking for CEnT-S are being built. They are not available to buy, and there is no waiting list.
On this page: the structure, timing and scoring of the test, taken from CISIA. The full format and syllabus pages are still being written, so they are not linked yet rather than linked to a placeholder.
Already available: the complete IMAT course.
The test at a glance
55 questions in 110 minutes.
Each section is timed separately. A finished section cannot be reopened, and its unused time does not transfer to the next one.
Mathematics15 questions · 30 min
Reasoning on texts and data15 questions · 30 min
Biology10 questions · 20 min
Chemistry10 questions · 20 min
Physics5 questions · 10 min
Scoring is +1 for a correct answer, −0.25 for an incorrect one and 0 for a blank, with five options per question and one correct. There is no separate English section: the whole test is sat in English.
What is being built
Three materials, the same as every Neuron Prep course.
In development · not yet available
This section describes intended scope. Nothing below can be bought or used today, and none of it is a commitment to a feature, a question count, a price or a release date.
Question Bank
Original questions written from the published syllabus and reviewed by a subject-competent reviewer, each with an explanation for every option.
Progress Tracking
Performance by section and topic, scored by the official CEnT-S rules and kept entirely separate from any other exam.
Original content only
The official CISIA question database is reserved to CISIA. No Neuron Prep question is taken from it.
An honest limit
No score here predicts admission.
Each university decides how it weights or transforms a CEnT-S result and sets its own minimum threshold. Those rules change between years and between courses.
Neuron Prep does not show a universal pass mark or an admission prediction. Check the notice published by the university and course you are applying to.
Sources
Where these facts come from.
Structure, timing and scoring are taken from CISIA’s published material, checked on 14 September 2026. Confirm against the current version before you rely on it.
cisiaonline.it/en/cent/cent-s/structure-and-syllabus
cisiaonline.it/en/news/cent-s-new-unified-cisia-english-test