How our exercises are made
Anyone can generate a thousand English questions. Ours follow the official format to the letter, pass a reviewer who didn’t write them, and are independently verified on top — and every number on this page is counted live from the bank, so nothing here can quietly go stale.
Before a batch goes live it is read again, item by item, by someone who did not write it. Three questions decide pass or rewrite:
Exactly one option can be defended. An arguable key means the exercise is rewritten, not patched.
Checked against the written B2/C1 standard — not a B2 item wearing a C1 badge.
Texts should read like something a British magazine would actually print.
On top of our own review, our tests are independently verified by EnglishCorrection — a service that audits exam materials against a seven-point checklist and issues a certificate for what passes. About our partners
The same sequence runs for every exercise in the bank, at both levels. It is deliberately slow — that is the point.
Part number, task type, question count and the official rubric are fixed before a word is written.
Every topic ever used is logged in a register — within a part you never meet the same subject twice.
Each item is checked against the written level standard; a C1 item that would pass at B2 is rewritten.
Every wrong option is a near-miss — the right idea with the wrong collocation, preposition or register.
Keys are spread across the letters, so no letter is worth guessing — the marks are in knowing.
Every question ends with why the key is right and why each near-miss fails.
What comes out the other end
Plenty of sites advertise “thousands of questions” without ever saying where. These figures are computed from the live content — they cannot overstate the bank, and cannot undersell it either.
Counted live · Exercises
Reading & Use of English, both levels. C1 Part 8 has no B2 counterpart.
Counted live · Questions
Counts differ per paper because the real exam asks a different number of questions in each part.
| Level | Paper | Exercises | Questions | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B2 First | Reading & Use of English | 420 | 3,120 | 60 per part · all 7 parts complete |
| B2 First | Listening | 160 | 1,200 | 40 per part · all 4 parts complete · original audio |
| C1 Advanced | Reading & Use of English | 480 | 3,360 | 60 per part · all 8 parts complete |
| C1 Advanced | Listening | 160 | 1,200 | 40 per part · all 4 parts complete · original audio |
Writing and Speaking are marked by Felix, our AI examiner — see how marking works.
These two are quoted straight from the first free exercises — the same JSON the practice pages serve. One shows how close the wrong options sit to the right one; the other, what the written explanation gives you that a red cross never could.
Quoted from the bank · B2 First · Reading & UoE Part 1 · Question 1
Buying second-hand clothes was once (1) ____ as a sign that you could not afford anything better.
The explanation, as students see it
'be regarded as' = be considered to be. The other verbs don't combine with 'as' in this way.
Quoted from the bank · B2 First · Reading & UoE Part 4 · Question 1
It's three years since I last saw Maria.
FOR
I ____ three years.
Accepted: “have not seen Maria for” · “haven't seen Maria for”
The explanation, as students see it
'It's X since I last...' = present perfect negative + 'for': 'I haven't seen Maria for three years.'
A real Cambridge paper is engineered to measure you, which is not the same as being engineered to teach you. So we copied the exam exactly where fidelity is what you need, and broke from it where copying would waste your time. Every difference is a decision, not an accident.
Every question is explained
The real paper tells you nothing. 8,880 explanations is where the learning actually happens.
The paper is split into its parts
In the exam you get all parts at once. Here you can drill only the one costing you marks.
Topics never repeat inside a part
A real paper picks topics incidentally. Here every subject is logged, so the reading itself keeps teaching.
Instant, item-level marking
You review while you still remember your reasoning — not weeks later, and not as a single number.
Unlimited retries
One shot is how you get measured. Repetition is how you get better.
B2 is not C1 with longer words. This is the table our writers work from — and the reviewer checks against.
| Dimension | B2 First | C1 Advanced |
|---|---|---|
| Meaning | Explicit and literal | Implicit too — attitude, tone, irony, inference |
| Vocabulary | Common, high-frequency | Less frequent, abstract, figurative, idiomatic |
| Collocation | Basic (make a decision) | Precise and non-obvious (set store by) |
| Grammar | Standard structures | Inversion, cleft, mixed conditionals, reduced clauses |
| Text | Concrete, descriptive | Longer, denser, argumentative, speculative |
| The test itself | Do you know this word? | Can you pick the exactly right one of four that nearly fit? |
