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CPE

I've been studying for CPE (Cambridge Proficiency) for an year and a half in a row, I don't think I'm prepare, I've done lots of mocks and just got Cs and Ds... I was wondering if you could give some tips...

On the other hand, is it that important? Sometimes I wonder what it really proves...
I'm from Brasil and I don't have access to english speaking people, of course, just through internet...
Thks...
  

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Get a private teacher! Barring that fantastic tip, what do you really need help in? I bet the following are a problem: Writing - because you have no input on your correction issues.

  • Get a private teacher!
  • Barring that fantastic tip, what do you really need help in?
  • I bet the following are a problem: Writing - because you have no input on your correction issues.
  • ) Summary Reading, Gapped Text Listening, Part 4 (He Said, She Said) Have I missed anything?
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Get a private teacher!
Barring that fantastic tip, what do you really need help in?

I bet the following are a problem:
Writing - because you have no input on your correction issues. Speaking - same reason
Use of English, Gapped Sentences and (horrors!) Summary Reading, Gapped Text
Listening, Part 4 (He Said, She Said)
Have I missed anything?
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Definitely: Reading, Gapped Text and Use of English, Gapped Sentences...
The other topics I do fine... but on these ones I can't get even the half of them...
On Reading, (Gaped text) very often the words I'm supposed to choose are completelly unknown to me, and when I know the words they seem too familiar and I don't know which one to choose...
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We'll take this in order, Gapped Text, and then Gapped Sentences. This will be a rather long post. We'll do this in parts, because if I write the whole thing in one night, I'll get bored, toss it, and you'll never see it.
Here goes.
Gapped Text, as many experts freely admit, is difficult for anyone, even a native speaker. There is a bit of controversy on the best way to have students appro
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Thanks a million!!
I'm looking forward to seeing the next part of your teaching...
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[nq:1]Thanks a million!! I'm looking forward to seeing the next part of your teaching...[/nq]
Gapped Text, Part 2 - HOW TO DO IT!
So now that we know what to look for to link paragraphs together, we have our strategy for gapped text. Before we get into it, we need to look at some of the basic problems that have to do with this part of the test.
Students, according to Cambridge ESOL, te
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Hey, does this newsgroup have an 'upload file' facility like You-know-hoo? credo's hints and tips could be useful to many people; why bury them in the postings?
Jan
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I don't know, but I made my own English file with the tips I've been collecting through these teaching groups... very very useful...
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As promised, let's move on to the next part mentioned.

Use of English, Part 3, is a new concept in language testing. There are only 6 items, so it is just 12 marks out of the 75 available. DO NOT LET THIS PART OVERWHELM YOU.
There's a bit of secret history behind this part.
As you might now, the revised CPE came out in December 2002. Before that, for years, there was an intense ye
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thank you very much... you've been very helpful, if you want to write more I'd appreciate...

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