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| Part 1 (Multiple Choice Cloze) | Test1 Test2 Test3 Test4 Test5 |
What’s in Part 1?
Part 1 consists of a text in which there are eight gaps (plus one gap as an example). Each gap represents a missing word or phrase. The text is followed by eight sets of four words or phrases, each set corresponding to a gap. Candidates have to choose which one of the four words or phrases in the set fills the gap correctly.
| Part 2 (Open Cloze) | Test1 Test2 Test3 Test4 Test5 |
What’s in Part 2?
Part 2 consists of a text in which there are eight gaps (plus one gap as an example). In this part, as there are no sets of words from which to choose the answers, candidates have to think of a word that will fill the gap correctly.
| Part 3 (Word Formation) | Test1 Test2 Test3 Test4 Test5 |
What’s in Part 3?
Part 3 consists of a text containing eight gaps (plus one gap as an example). At the end of some of the lines, and separated from the text, there is a stem word in capital letters. Candidates need to form an appropriate word from given stem words to fill each gap.
| Part 4 (Key Word Transformations) | Test1 Test2 Test3 Test4 Test5 |
What’s in Part 4?
Six separate items, each with a lead-in sentence and a gapped second sentence to be completed in two to five words, one of which is a given ‘key’ word.
| Part 5 (Multiple Choice) | Test1 Test2 Test3 Test4 Test5 |
What’s in Part 5?
Part 5 consists of a text, followed by six 4-option multiple-choice questions which test the understanding of content and text organisation. The text may be taken from, for example, a modern novel or an article.
| Part 6 (Gapped text) | Test1 Test2 Test3 Test4 Test5 |
What’s in Part 6?
Part 6 consists of one text, for example, an extract from a magazine, from which six sentences have been removed and placed in jumbled order after the text, together with a seventh sentence that does not fit in any of the gaps. Candidates are required to decide from where in the text each sentence has been removed.
| Part 7 (Multiple matching) | Test1 Test2 Test3 Test4 Test5 |
What’s in Part 7?
Part 7 consists of one long text or up to six shorter texts, preceded by 10 questions. Candidates are required to locate the specific information which matches the questions.
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Sample papers, online practice tests & tips. FCE CAE CPE
| Part 1 (Multiple choice) | Test1 Test2 Test3 Test4 Test5 |
What’s in Part 1?
The eight questions in this part of the paper are each preceded by a context sentence which is read out on the recording. The candidates then have time to read each question before hearing the recording twice.
| Part 2 (Sentence completion) | Test1 Test2 Test3 Test4 Test5 |
What’s in Part 2?
The 10 questions in this part of the paper take the form of incomplete sentences. The questions follow the order of the information in the listening text. Candidates need to listen to the text and complete the sentences.
| Part 3 (Multiple matching) | Test1 Test2 Test3 Test4 Test5 |
What’s in Part 3?
In this part, candidates listen to five short texts, each with a different speaker, which are related in some way. For example, they may all be speaking about aspects of the same subject, such as travel, or about similar experiences, such as journeys. Candidates choose the option from a set of eight that matches
what each speaker says.
| Part 4 (Multiple choice) | Test1 Test2 Test3 Test4 Test5 |
What’s in Part 4?
The seven questions in this part of the paper take the form of 3-option multiple-choice questions. The questions follow the order of the interaction on the recording. Texts are usually interviews or discussions featuring two speakers.
The essay is a compulsory task to be completed in Part.
BOTH The pronoun “both” means “one and the other; two together”.
Part 2 of the B2 Frist (FCE) Paper is called ‘Open Cloze‘.
Choose the word or phrase which best completes the sentence.
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