TIPS AND HINTS FOR PREPARING FOR EXAMINATIONS

There are many options for preparing students for examinations. Many publishers have series and titles for Exams preparation. You can find an up-to-date list of publishers to help you chose the appropriate material for preparing your students.

While the following resources are in no way exhaustive nor definitive, we hope they are useful:

IELTS

Please see our IELTS preparation webpage for information

• Passing the IELTS - Insider Guide (36 KB)

All Cambridge ESOL Exams

A complete range of detailed exam information, classroom activities and tips and hints for preparaing students for Cambridge ESOL examinations  is available on the Cambridge ESOL Teaching Resources Website.

• Exams Skills - The Insider Guide to Cambridge ESOL exams (82 KB)

Young Learners Exams (Starters, Movers, Flyers)

• How to do well in the Cambridge Young Learners English Tests (195 KB)
• Testing Young Learners (21 KB)

Main Suite Exams

• Advice on Taking Main Suite Exams (46 KB)
• Exams Skills - The Insider Guide to PET (33 KB)
• Preparing Students for PET (59 KB)
• Exams Skills - The Insider Guide to FCE (38 KB)
• Exams Skills - The Insider Guide to CAE (36 KB)
• Exams Skills - The Insider Guide to BEC (37 KB)

GENERAL RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS

Our English Teaching Support page provides trainee teachers, teachers, academic coordinators, teacher trainers, researchers, administrators and policy makers with materials, useful links, lesson plans and activities, among other useful resources.

Useful Links and resources

Are you preparing students for an examination?  Do you want to find out more about exams, their content, level?  There is a large range of information about the examinations available for download:

Cambridge ESOL Examinations

Cambridge ESOL has a complete range of resources such as handbooks, sample papers, listening files (in MP3) and information for candidates and teachers:

You also can visit Cambridge ESOL Candidate Support website.

IELTS

There are a range of downloadable resources from the ielts.org including information for candidates, handbooks and research reports.

The following websites also have useful information for download and preparing students for exams.

GENERAL

• LEARN ENGLISH PROFESSIONALS
  Includes FCE and IELTS practice materials
  
  
• Flo-Joe
  The place for Cambridge ESOL test preparation.
  
  
• Longman Exams
  Longman Exams practice with lots of extra test preparation material.
  
  
• English One-Line
  A range of tips and free practice papers for the Cambridge ESOL main Suite examinations (KET, PET, FCE, CAE and CPE).
  
  
• One Stop English
  Top tips and lesson plans for the FCE and IELTS examinations

FCE - IELTS

• English Live  
  Free online listening, reading, writing and grammar exercises to help you practise for IELTS and FCE
  
• OM First Certificate page
  Extensive range of Java-based FCE exercises, resources and practice papers.
  
• About.com
  A page of links to free FCE practice material (some featured on this links page).