0 FCE Exam

Good morning everyone

For those of you who are getting ready for the FCE exam, we will revise and practice today some of the

parts of the exam.

The more you practice, the sooner you will get used to the structure of the exam, but don't forget that the final aim is to be able to communicate!

The First Certificate of English exams consist of 5 parts, and you pass when you obtain the marks A, B or C.

The first part of the exam is Reading which is divided into three parts (30 questions) with different kinds of exercises for the texts. For the reading exercises you will have 60 minutes.

-Multiple choice text
-Gapped text: You have to fill in the gaps in a text with the given sentences. There is an extra sentence that you don't have to use.
-Multiple Matching.

Today you have here two examples of the "Gapped text" exercise:

Example 1 , Example 2.

Soon we will revise and practice the other two sections of the reading part.

For the Writing part you have 1 hour and 20 minutes to do the two tasks. The first one is a compulsory letter (formal or informal), whereas in the second part you choose from four options which may include: articles, reports, letters, application letters, stories, essays and reviews.

How is Writing assessed?
There are four assessment criteria for the writing tasks: Content, Communicative Achievement, 
Organisation and Language.
•Content focuses on how well you have completed the task, in other words, if you have 
 done what you were asked to do. 
•Communicative Achievement focuses on how appropriate the writing is for the task 
 (for example, is the style right for a magazine article?), and whether you have used the 
 right register, for example formal or informal.
•Organisation focuses on the way you put together the piece of writing, in other words, 
 if it’s logical and ordered.
•Language focuses on vocabulary and grammar. This includes the range of language as 
 well as how accurate it is.

Use of English

Tests your use of English with tasks that show how well you can control your grammar and vocabulary. You have 45 minutes to do the four different parts of this paper. (42 questions)

Parts 1 and 3 mainly test your  knowledge of vocabulary. Part 2 mainly tests your knowledge of grammar.  Part 4 tests both vocabulary and grammar, especially when paraphrasing.

Here you have two examples to practice two of the sections: Example


Keep an eye on our next posts  because we will keep revising and practicing the different parts of the exam.