B2 First · FCE · Practice by part
Short, focused exercises on a single exam part — perfect when you don't have time for a whole test.
B2 First (FCE) is four papers sat on the same day, and they are not weighted the way most candidates assume. Reading & Use of English (1 h 15 min, 7 parts) is worth 40 % of your result and is reported as two separate scores. Writing (1 h 20 min, two tasks of 140–190 words), Listening (about 40 min, 4 parts) and Speaking (14 min per pair) are worth 20 % each.
That split is the whole argument for practising one part at a time. A full mock test tells you your average; it does not tell you that you lose most of your Use of English marks in the word formation part specifically, or that you run out of time in the gapped text every single time. Part-level practice is where those patterns show up, and they are the ones that move a score.
Results come back on the Cambridge English Scale. At this level the reported range is 140–190, and 160 is the pass mark — the score at which the certificate is issued at B2 level. You do not need to pass every paper; you need the average across the four to reach 160, which is why a weak paper is worth more attention than a strong one.
Each paper above opens into its own parts, and each part holds a set of exercises in the real exam format — same task types, same instructions, same answer patterns. There are 760 exercises across this level, plus 60 full paper tests for when you want a whole paper under exam timing.
A sensible order: start with the part you like least, because that is where the marks are. Do three or four exercises of one task type in a row rather than one of each — the point is to learn what that task rewards, and that only becomes visible across repetitions. Every answer comes with an explanation of why it is right, so a wrong answer is worth more than a right one.
Writing and Speaking work differently: you produce an answer and Felix, our AI examiner, marks it against the public Cambridge assessment scales — content, communicative achievement, organisation and language — with sentence-level comments and an indicative band. Speaking accepts either a live transcript from your microphone or typed answers, so it still works if you are somewhere you cannot talk out loud.
Two exercises in every Reading & Use of English, Listening and Speaking part are free with no account, and each level has one free full Reading & Use of English test. The rest of the bank, the Writing practice and the AI marking are covered by a one-off timed access pass rather than a subscription.
760 exercises at this level and 60 full paper tests, spread across all four papers and every part of each paper. New material is added to the bank rather than rotated, so nothing you have already done disappears.
No. They are original exercises written to the published B2 First (FCE) specification — same task types, same lengths, same answer formats — and this site is not affiliated with Cambridge University Press & Assessment. For past papers, use Cambridge's own sample material; use this bank for the volume of practice that the handful of official samples cannot give you.
160 on the Cambridge English Scale, averaged across the four papers. Scoring below 160 but at least ten points under it still earns a certificate at the level below, and scoring near the top of the 140–190 range earns a grade A.
Up to a point, and that point is feedback. An unmarked essay teaches you very little, which is why Writing and Speaking here are marked against the public assessment scales with specific comments rather than a score alone. It is not a substitute for a teacher who knows you, but it is the difference between practising and just producing words.
