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Reading FCE

The document provides tips for taking an exam including reading words you don't understand in context, looking at prefixes and suffixes, reading question stems to find key words, finding relevant parts of the text, choosing options that have the same meaning but different words, predicting answers for fill in the gap questions by looking at context, choosing options that fit grammatically and reference other parts of the text, and being careful to not choose the same option twice for multiple matching questions.

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Reading FCE

The document provides tips for taking an exam including reading words you don't understand in context, looking at prefixes and suffixes, reading question stems to find key words, finding relevant parts of the text, choosing options that have the same meaning but different words, predicting answers for fill in the gap questions by looking at context, choosing options that fit grammatically and reference other parts of the text, and being careful to not choose the same option twice for multiple matching questions.

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Reading

Words you don’t understand


Are they similar to words in your country?

Look at the context

What is the prefix or suffix?


Paper 1 Part 5
abc or d Multiple choice

Read the question stems and mark the key words.

Find and mark the parts of the text that contains the information you need.

Read the options. The correct option will have the same meaning but
use different words.

Check by reading the text you have marked again carefully.


Paper 1 Part 6
Fill the gap

Skim the text.

Read the text before and after the gap. Predict the answer
Underline nouns,pronouns,linkers that help you.
What option fits the topic? Look for grammatical links -
tenses,lexical links (synonyms) and reference links
( pronouns)
Choose the best option for the gap
Move to the next one if you don’t know.

Check you haven’t used the same one twice.


Paper 1 Part 7

Multiple Matching

Read the question stems and mark the key words.

Scan each section and highlight possible answers,

Check your highlighted text . be careful as there


may be similar ideas in another section.
Move to the next one if you don’t know.Go
back later

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