One of the things that you need to do if you want to pass the Cambridge First Certificate in English (FCE) exam is to practise doing the different parts of the exam. The more you do them, the more comfortable and quicker you become at doing them.
To help you easily find copies of the exam to practise doing them, I have created the below list of web pages where you can find them. In some of these, the exam is online (so, you can do it on your computer, smartphone etc...). In others, you have to download a copy of the exam and print it out to do it.
All of these come with the answers (so you check how well you have done after doing the tests).
The different types of the FCE exam
Before you look at the below copies of the exam, you need to know that there are two types of the FCE exam:
- First Certificate in English
- First Certificate in English for Schools
The standard 'First Certificate in English' exam is for adults and the 'First Certificate in English for Schools' exam is for students at school. Apart from the Writing part of the exam (where in the second part people doing the standard 'First Certificate in English' exam could be asked to write a 'report', but in the 'First Certificate in English for Schools' exam they could be asked to write a 'story' instead), there is no difference in the questions you have to do or the level of English.
But there is a difference between the two, and that is the topics used in the exams. In the 'First Certificate in English for Schools' exam, the topics used are generally on things which young people know about (e.g. school etc...). In the 'First Certificate in English' exam, the topics used are generally on things which adults know about (e.g. jobs etc...).
But no matter which of the two exams you are going to take, for practising it is perfectly ok to do either of the two types of the FCE exam which you'll find link to below.
For the Reading and UOE exam:
Both of these are for the standard 'First Certificate in English' exam.
Flo Joe online Reading/UOE exam
Exam English online Reading/UOE exam
For the Listening exam:
This is again for the standard 'First Certificate in English' exam.
Exam English online Listening exam
A copy of the whole First Certificate in English exam:
Two Official Cambridge FCE exams
Another Official Cambridge FCE exam
A copy of the whole First Certificate in English for Schools exam:
Two Official Cambridge FCE for Schools exams
Learn methods to do the exam
Although practising doing the different parts of the exam will help you to do them better, it is more important that you learn a method to do each part quickly and accurately. So, I recommend that you create your own or find methods before doing lots of different FCE exam papers.