CAE

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CAE

• Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English

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Opportunities

• Living abroad (Australia, Canada, China, The USA,
  United Kingdom, etc. )
• Study (Berkeley College, Harvard Business School,
  University of Cambridge, Trinity College, etc.)
• Work (PricewaterhouseCoopers, Credit Suisse,
  Microsoft, Ford Motor Company, IBM, etc. )

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What does CAE involve?

• Reading (4 parts 1 hour 15 minutes)
• Writing (2 tasks 2 hours)
• English in use (6 parts 1 hour 30 minutes)
• Listening (4 texts 45 minutes)
• Speaking (4 parts 15 minutes)

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Reading (answer sheet)

• Matching
• Gapped text
• Question answering
• Matching

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Writing (2 hours)

• Compulsory task (250 words)
• One task selected from a choice of four (250
  words)

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English in use (answering sheet)
each task is based on a short text

• 15 single-word gaps (vocabulary)
• 15 structural-word gaps (context grammar)
• Error correction (spelling, punctuation, grammar)
• Word formation (word-building)
• Text-remaking (vocabulary, style)
• Missing sentences (grammatical and lexical)

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Listening (answer sheet)

• Take notes summary of the recording (twice)
• Complete the sentences (once)
• Multiple choice questions (twice)
• Matching (twice)

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Speaking

• General information about yourself
• Talk about a picture
• Problem-solving or decision-making task
• Dwelling upon the conclusions in the previous
  task

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Results

• A, B, C Congratulations!
• D E Try again!
• Grade A 80100 marks
• Grade B 7579 marks
• Grade C 6074 marks
• Grade D 5559 marks
• Grade E 54 marks or below