Is an exam required for upgrading from C1 to B2 driver's license?

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An exam is required. The following are the conditions for upgrading from C1 to B2: Hold a C1 driver's license for small cars for more than 3 years, with no full-point records in the last three consecutive scoring cycles, aged between 20 and 50, no record of causing a fatal traffic accident with equal or greater responsibility; no record of drunk driving; and no revocation or cancellation of the driver's license within the last ten years. C1 is a code for a type of driver's license. According to the "Regulations on the Application and Use of Motor Vehicle Driver's Licenses" (Ministry of Public Security Order No. 123), C1 refers to a driver's license that permits driving small and micro passenger vehicles, light and micro cargo vehicles, as well as light and micro special-purpose vehicles. It also permits driving vehicles under the C2, C3, and C4 license categories. A B2 driver's license allows driving heavy and medium-duty cargo vehicles or large, heavy, and medium-sized special-purpose vehicles. Heavy and medium-duty cargo vehicles are mostly trucks, such as the large dump trucks commonly seen on roads, which belong to heavy trucks. Large, heavy, and medium-sized special-purpose vehicles refer to vehicles equipped with special equipment or devices, such as water sprinklers, concrete mixers, fire trucks, etc. Article 14 of the "Regulations on the Application and Use of Motor Vehicle Driver's Licenses" states that for first-time applicants of a motor vehicle driver's license, the permitted vehicle types include city buses, large trucks, small cars, small automatic transmission cars, low-speed cargo vehicles, three-wheeled cars, small automatic transmission passenger cars for the disabled, ordinary three-wheeled motorcycles, ordinary two-wheeled motorcycles, light motorcycles, wheeled self-propelled machinery, trolleybuses, and trams. For those who already hold a motor vehicle driver's license and apply to add permitted vehicle types, the additional permitted vehicle types include large buses, tractors, city buses, medium-sized buses, large trucks, small cars, small automatic transmission cars, low-speed cargo vehicles, three-wheeled cars, ordinary three-wheeled motorcycles, ordinary two-wheeled motorcycles, light motorcycles, wheeled self-propelled machinery, trolleybuses, and trams. Article 15 states that for those who already hold a motor vehicle driver's license and apply to add permitted vehicle types, there should be no record of accumulating 12 points in the current scoring cycle and the most recent scoring cycle before the application. For applications to add medium-sized buses, tractors, or large buses to the permitted vehicle types, the following additional regulations apply: For applications to add medium-sized buses to the permitted vehicle types, the applicant must have held a license for city buses, large trucks, small cars, small automatic transmission cars, low-speed cargo vehicles, or three-wheeled cars for more than three years, with no record of accumulating 12 points in the last three consecutive scoring cycles before the application. For applications to add tractors to the permitted vehicle types, the applicant must have held a license for medium-sized buses or large trucks for more than three years, or held a license for large buses for more than one year, with no record of accumulating 12 points in the last three consecutive scoring cycles before the application. For applications to add large buses to the permitted vehicle types, the applicant must have held a license for city buses, medium-sized buses, or large trucks for more than five years, or held a license for tractors for more than two years, with no record of accumulating 12 points in the last five consecutive scoring cycles before the application. Full-time students receiving driving vocational education who have obtained a license for small cars while in school and have no record of accumulating 12 points in the current scoring cycle and the most recent scoring cycle before the application can apply to add large buses or tractors to their permitted vehicle types.