C1 Advanced · CAE · Full mock exams
Full practice tests that mirror the real Cambridge exam — every paper under its real timing, marked to the C1 standard.
Part practice tells you whether you know the material. A mock test tells you whether you can produce it for 1 h 30 min straight, after an hour of concentration, with a clock running — and those are different questions. Most candidates who are surprised on exam day were not short of knowledge; they were short of stamina and pacing, and neither shows up in a ten-minute exercise.
60 full paper tests at this level, each one a complete paper in a single sitting under its real timing. Sit one early to find your baseline, then go back to part practice with a specific list of what went wrong, then sit another to check the list got shorter. Two tests taken three weeks apart are worth more than five taken in the same week.
A useful habit: mark the questions you guessed, not just the ones you got wrong. A lucky guess is a gap that has not been found yet, and on C1 Advanced (CAE) it is the gaps you cannot see that decide the 180.
The written papers run to the real timings — Reading & Use of English 1 h 30 min, Writing 1 h 30 min, Listening about 40 min. On the day these are sat back to back, so if you are rehearsing exam conditions it is worth doing the same rather than spreading them over a week.
Reading, Use of English and Listening are marked against an answer key the moment you finish, with an explanation for every question. Writing and Speaking are marked by Felix against the four public Cambridge criteria, with sentence-level comments and an indicative band rather than a single number.
Treat it as an indication, not a prediction. The objective papers map closely because the answer is right or wrong; Writing and Speaking are estimates against the published scales, and no automated mark — ours included — replaces a trained examiner. What a mock reliably shows is the direction and the gap, which is what you can act on.
