13/09/2021
OVERALL CPE PREPARATION TIPS
If you thought going from FCE to CAE was hard you're going to HATE going from CAE to CPE. It's tough. Open a CPE coursebook - there's not a lot of grammar in there - you're supposed to pretty much know everything already.
📖 If your grammar isn't rock solid, go and buy Destination C1 and work through it. (It's also great for vocabulary, but if you don't have 6 months to prepare just do the grammar units.)
📚 What you do get with Objective Proficiency is tons of vocabulary exercises. Dependent prepositions, phrasal verbs, idioms - oh, lordy! Hundreds of high-level new words. You'd better buy some flashcards.
As you'd expect, the reading texts are longer, and the listening texts are harder and faster.
That all leads us to the first, most important tip:
1️⃣ SURROUND YOURSELF WITH ENGLISH.
Create a little English bubble that you can live in at least a few hours a week. Make an English-speaking friend. Load up your phone with podcasts. And most of all, READ ALL THE TIME. Read the news in English, read The New Yorker, read The Economist. Read Reddit and 9Gag.
2️⃣ An important tip 2: ACTIVATE NEW VOCAB
All those words you're learning? USE them. Get words from your passive vocabulary into your active vocabulary. Use it or lose it, baby!
In further posts you'll find some tips for each section. Stay tuned 🔌
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