Reading and Use of English
The amount of minutes you are given to transfer your answers onto the answer sheet.
What is zero minutes?
This is the type of document you have to write for Part 1 of this Paper
What is "essay"?
Number of times you get to listen to the recordings.
What is two times?
Maximum number of candidates that may enter the examination room.
What is number 3?
This is the official name for CAE
What is Cambridge English: Advanced?
The number of parts this Paper is comprised by.
What is 8?
This Part of the test allows you to choose the task you want to carry out from a set of options.
What is Part 2?
Number of minutes you will have at the end of the test to transfer your answers onto the separate answer sheet.
What is 5 minutes?
This part of the exam is not evaluated (off the record info!)
What is Part 1?
The last time the CAE underwent a revision and changed formats was this year...
What is 2015?
The Reading Skills you need to develop for this Paper
What is Skimming and Scanning?
You have to submit both documents using this in the final document...
What is "black ink"?
Number of people that may speak in the recording
What is 1, 2 or 3?
This is the total length of the session
What is 15 minutes?
This is what examiners or invigilators can't do during the session.
What is "explain the instructions"?
Something that is assessed on this Paper other than the Grammar.
What is Vocabulary (phrasal verbs, idioms and collocations?)
Although you are not penalised for overwriting, this can happen if you write more words than the ones requested.
What is redundancy or irrelevance?
Number of words you should not exceed in your answers for Listening Paper Part 2
What is number 3?
This is the number of examiners who are in the session room...
What is number 2?
This is the kind of spelling mistake accepted in CAE
What is a minor spelling mistake often mirroring an ambitious attempt?
In this part of the test you are given one word which you must transform in order to fit a sentence grammatically.
What is Word Formation?
Types of documents you may write for Part 2
What is email, letter, report, proposal or review?
The person who gives the instructions for the Listening Paper
What is Nobody. Just the locutor on the recording.
The examiner who is actually assessing your performance.
Who is the examiner who is not interacting with you?
You must have this in order to use any variety of English that you wish during the exam
What is consistency?