FCE Reading

Presented by Group 6
Overview
General formats

Question types

How to score
Reading & Use of
English

Materials
 I. General formats
- The FCE Reading test includes 7 sections with total 52 questions &
takes 75 minutes

- The “Reading” and “Use of English” sections are combined into one
exam paper. This means you will only have around 10 minutes to
answer all the questions in each part.

- If you want to achieve level B2, for Reading you must score minimum
of 24 points and over 28 points in Use of English test.

- Length of texts: about 2,200 words to read in total. Texts may be

from newspapers & magazines, journals, books (fiction & non-fiction),
promotional and informational material.
 7 parts

Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4:

Multiple choice Open cloze Word formation Keyword
transformation

Part 5: Part 6: Part 7:

Multiple choice Gapped text Multiple matching
 Part 2: Multiple
Part 1: Fill in the gap
choice

Each question has 4

There are some gaps in
options (A, B, C or D),
the text. You have to
you have to decide
think of the correct word
which is the correct
answer. II. QUESTION TYPES
* 8 questions
for each gap.
• Total of 8 questions
• Base on the text to
* A stem word for each
write the suitable word
gap
by your own
* Form an appropriate
• Guess the grammatical
word
structure or family of
words & write it down
Part 3: Word formation

Each gap represents a

• 8 questions
word, at the end of the line
• Given a stem word for each
is a ‘prompt’ word which
gap
you have to change in
• Need to form an
some way to complete the
appropriate word
sentence correctly.
 Part 4: Keyword Transformaion

• Total of 6 questions

• Complete the second

sentence, using the word
given and DO NOT
CHANGE THE WORD
GIVEN

• Use between 2 and 5

words, including the
keyword
 Part 5: Multiple choice

• 6 questions for
you to choose

• There’s a long
piece of text, you
will read in total
& choose the
correct answer
between 4
options.
 Part 6: Gapped text

A single page
with some
numbered gaps
Six which
question represent
missing
sentences.

Read the text

and the
sentences, then
decide which
sentence best
fits each gap.
Part 7: Multiple matching

• 10 questions in total

• A series of statements
followed by a text divided
into sections or serval
short texts (usually four)

• Read & decide which

sentence best fits.
 III. How to score Reading & Use of English
1.READING
skills in FCE
The exam paper has seven parts and for the
reading portion we have to look just at parts 1,
5, 6 and 7.

• Reading counts 20% toward your overall

result.
• For parts 1 and 7, you get 1 mark and for
parts 5 and 6, you get 2 mark for each
correct answer.
• There is a total of 42 possible marks in this
part.
 2. USE OF ENGLISH
You will calculate your score for Use of English
from parts 2, 3 and 4.

Use of English counts 20% toward your overall

result.

For parts 2 and 3, you get 1 mark and for part 4,

you get up to 2 marks for each correct answer

There is a total of 28 possible marks in this part.

 IV. Materials
SUCCESSFUL FCE 10 PRACTICE
OBJECTIVE CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH FIRST
TEST FIRST COMPACT FIRST
Thank’s for listening