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Candidates are expected to be able to: demonstrate the ability to apply

their knowledge and control of the language system by completing a
number of tasks at text and sentence level; demonstrate a variety of
reading skills including understanding of specific information, text
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WRITING Part 1 One compulsory question. Candidates are given input in the
1 hr 20 mins form of an essay title to respond
to, along with accompanying
notes to guide their writing.
Part 2 Candidates choose one task from Candidates are expected to be
a choice of three questions. able to write non-specialised text
types such as an article, an
informal letter or email, a review
or a report.
LISTENING Part 1 A series of eight short, unrelated Candidates are expected to be
Approx. 40 mins extracts from monologues or able to show understanding of
exchanges between interacting feeling, attitude, detail, opinion,
speakers. There is one multiple- purpose, agreement, gist,
choice question per extract. function, topic, specific
information, etc.
Part 2 A monologue with a sentence-
completion task which has 10
questions.
Part 3 Five short, related monologues,
with five multiple-matching
questions. There are three
distractors.
Part 4 An interview or an exchange
between two speakers with seven
multiple-choice questions.
SPEAKING Part 1 A conversation between the Candidates are expected to be
14 mins interlocutor and each candidate able to respond to questions and
(spoken questions). to interact in conversational
English.
Part 2 An individual ‘long turn’ for each
candidate, followed by a response
from the second candidate (visual
and written stimuli with spoken
instructions).
Part 3 A two-way conversation between
the candidates (written stimuli,
with spoken instructions).
Part 4 A discussion on topics related to
Part 3 (spoken questions).