Calculate your FCE score | Reading, Use of English and Listening

have you ever wondered how your test results are calculated after my students finish a practice test they always ask me how well would I do in the real exam well in this video we're going to look at exactly that I'll show you how to calculate your score for each part of the exam and then how to predict what kind of level you would get in the real Cambridge exam let's get started hi everyone my name's Anu from super easy SAE the best place to be for weekly tips and tricks to pass the b2 first certificate exam don't forget to subscribe to start learning all of my secrets today okay so your statement of results when you do the real Cambridge exam looks like this you will get between 140 and 190 marks for each part and also for the overall exam all the parts are equally important but if you fail one of them it doesn't really matter so overall score determines what level and what certificate you'll receive how to calculate your overall score your overall score is calculated by adding all of the individual scores together and dividing by 5 and then rounding to the nearest whole number so for example imagine you get a hundred and sixty-one for reading a hundred and 75 for use in English 182 for writing Wow a hundred and fifty for listening and a hundred and sixty-five for speaking you will add all of those numbers together and divide the answer by five I got a hundred and sixty six point six so round up to the nearest whole number and you get an overall score of a hundred and sixty-seven so does this mean you've passed let's find out what level will I achieve if you get between a hundred and forty and a hundred and sixty marks you've achieved b1 level four b2 level you will need more than one hundred and sixty marks anything between 160 and 180 is okay and you will get a grade C or a grade B it is possible to get a c1 level in the first exam if you get between 180 and 190 marks or grade A however this does not mean that you can skip the CAE exam you can see here that there is some overlap between all the levels and getting grade A in the exam is similar to getting a very low mark for the CAE exam so in my previous example you achieved 167 which is a pass at b2 level grade C notice that you can get lower than b2 level in one or more of the sections in the exam it's okay you just need an overall score that's higher than a hundred and sixty next let's look at the individual parts of the exam and calculate each of those scores reading now reading is actually not a separate paper it's part of the reading and use of English exam there are seven parts in this test and the reading mark comes from part 1 5 6 and 7 be careful lots of students think part 1 is use of English it's not it's actually part of your reading score correct answers in part 1 and 7 are worth 1 mark each correct answers in part 5 and 6 are worth two marks each so there are 42 possible marks in the reading section next use this table to find out which level you've achieved you need a minimum of 24 marks to get a b2 level in the reading section anything between 24 and 37 is a b2 level and anything above 37 is c1 if you achieve 10 or less than 10 marks your performance is below b1 level the use of English section consists of Part two three and four of the reading and use of English paper correct answers in parts two and three are worth 1 mark each in part four answers are divided into halves so if you get one half correct you will receive one mark if you get it completely correct you will receive two marks there are 28 possible marks in the use of English section once again use this table to find out which level you've achieved you need a minimum of 18 marks to get a b2 level in the use of English paper anything between 18 and 24 is a b2 level and anything above 24 is one if you achieve seven or less than seven marks your performance is unfortunately below b1 level listening this is probably the easiest one to map all correct answers in the listening paper are worth 1 mark each there are 30 questions in the listening exam and so there are 30 possible marks in the listening exam as well as before use this table to find out your score you need a minimum of 18 marks to get a b2 level in the listening paper anything between 18 and 27 is b2 level and anything about 27 is c1 if you achieve 8 or less than 8 marks your performance is unfortunately below b1 level writing and speaking now writing and speaking are a little bit more complicated so we'll look at these two in another video I'll link it up here and in the description box below want an easier way if you think this process is just too long don't worry I've put a link to my website where you can use my free calculator just fill in the marks that you got in your practice test for each section and the calculator will instantly tell you what your cambridge score would be i hope this video made the planning process a little bit easier for you if this video was helpful make sure you give me a thumbs up subscribe by 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Length: 7min 39sec (459 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 03 2018