PET Exam Overview
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PET Exam overview What's in the exam? Paper Content Marks (% of total ) Purpose Reading and Writing (1 hour 30 minutes) Reading: 5 parts/35 questions Writing: 3 parts/7 questions 50% Shows you can read and understand the main points from signs, journals, newspapers and magazines, and can use vocabulary and structure correctly. Listening (30 minutes, plus 6 minutes' transfer time) 4 parts/25 questions 25% Requires you to be able to follow and understand a range of spoken materials including announcements and discussions about everyday life. Speaking (10–12 minutes per pair of candidates) 4 parts 25% Demonstrates your spoken English as you take part in conversation, asking/answering questions, and talking freely, for example, about your likes and dislikes. Your Speaking test will be conducted face-to-face with one or two other candidates. This makes your test more realistic and more reliable. Practical English for everyday use Cambridge English: Preliminary uses real-life situations that are especially designed to help you understand factual information and show awareness of opinions, attitudes and mood in both spoken and written English. Real-life language skills Cambridge English: Preliminary is set at Level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages(CEFR). B1 is the level of English needed to: deal with everyday events read simple textbooks or magazine articles write letters on familiar subjects take notes in a meeting. It shows that you can use English to communicate with native speakers for everyday purposes. For example, at B1 level, you can expect to: understand the main points of straightforward instructions or public announcements deal with most of the situations you might meet when travelling as a tourist in an English-speaking country ask simple questions and take part in factual conversations in a work environment write letters or make notes on familiar matters. Preparing for Cambridge English: Preliminary will give you these kinds of practical language skills.
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An overview of the PET exam for English speakers to achieve the B-1 level.
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PET Exam overview
PET Exam overview
What's in the exam?
PaperContentMarks(% of total)Purpose
Reading and Writing(1 hour 30 minutes)Reading:5 parts/35 questions
Writing:3 parts/7questions50%Shows you can read and understand the main points from signs, journals, newspapers and magazines, and can use vocabulary and structure correctly.
Listening(30 minutes, plus 6 minutes' transfer time)4 parts/25 questions25%Requires you to be able to follow and understand a range of spoken materials including announcements and discussions about everyday life.
Speaking(1012 minutes per pair of candidates)4 parts25%Demonstrates your spoken English as you take part in conversation, asking/answering questions, and talking freely, for example, about your likes and dislikes. Your Speaking test will be conducted face-to-face with one or two other candidates. This makes your test more realistic and more reliable.
Practical English for everyday useCambridgeEnglish: Preliminaryuses real-life situations that are especially designed to help you understand factual information and show awareness of opinions, attitudes and mood in both spoken and written English.
Real-life language skillsCambridgeEnglish: Preliminaryis set at Level B1 of theCommon European Framework of Reference for Languages(CEFR). B1 is the level of English needed to:
deal with everyday events
read simple textbooks or magazine articles
write letters on familiar subjects
take notes in a meeting.
It shows that you can use English to communicate with native speakers for everyday purposes.
For example, at B1 level, you can expect to:
understand the main points of straightforward instructions or public announcements
deal with most of the situations you might meet when travelling as a tourist in an English-speaking country
ask simple questions and take part in factual conversations in a work environment
write letters or make notes on familiar matters.
Preparing forCambridge English: Preliminarywill give you these kinds of practical language skills.
