After 12 hours and 200 km I am finally back home from the University of Cambridge First Certificate in English. (I did the test here in Italy, not in Cambridge!)

I hope it went well. I dind't find it too difficult, but I could be wrong.
I will know the result in 40 days, when a computer in Cambridge will have scanned and corrected my answer sheet.

The test is divided in 5 parts.

Reading: 1 hour.
Read some texts and answer the questions
Insert the sentences given in the text.

Writing: 1 hour 20 minutes.
Write two 180-word long (circa) letters to friends

Use of English: 45 minutes
Now this is the difficult one. You have to:
1) Fill in the gaps in a text choosing one word from the 4 you are given
2) Fill in the gaps in a text using prepositions
3) Fill in the gaps in a text transforming nouns/verbs/adjectives.
Example: "Fire was an impressive [achieve] for man, which provided [hot] and scared away [danger] animals" Answers: Achievement, heat and dangerous
4) Rewrite a given sentence , filling the gap with two to five words, using the given word which must not be changed.
Example:
"People always want to attend Professor Sharp's lectures."
Given word: SOMEONE
Sentence to fill in "Professor Sharp .......................... lectures people always want to attend.
Answer: "Is someone whose"


Now after all this, my head was predictably spinning, luckily we have had 1 hour and a half for lunch, but then we had to go back for the...


Listening: 45 minutes
Listen to people talking and answer the questions, either by choosing the correct answer or filling the gaps

And after that we had 9 minutes to run for about a kilometre and catch our train! After an hour of train, another half an hour drive back home.

You think it's over? Of course it's not! On Monday I still have the fifth and last part of the exam...


Speaking: 14 minutes
What to say... just talk. Show off your pronounciation, your grammar correctness and so on.



Yeah, I'm rather tired...


EDIT: Today I did the speaking part, was easy as pie. I just had to present myself, say where I live, then I was given a few photos and just had to comment them, then they asked me a few questions about them and I was done.