Welcome to your FCE Exam Skills section!

The First Certificate exam consists of five papers:

Paper 1 Reading
Paper 2 Writing
Paper 3 Use of English
Paper 4 Listening
Paper 5 Speaking

Here you can practise the listening and speaking papers. For the writing and use of English papers, look at Lesson downloads.

Please note that the materials we currently offer follow the present FCE exam specifications. These specifications will change with the December 2008 session. Click to find out more about the revised FCE exam. We shall be updating our exams materials to reflect these changes shortly.

Each set of materials has several parts which practise a particular type of question. The materials give you exam question practice and show you how to answer the question. They also improve your vocabulary for the exam.

You can prepare for each paper twice, as follows:

• practice materials for the listening and speaking papers - general skills practice
• exam practice - practise the exact question types you'll see in the exam, with exam tips

Good luck with the exam!