Proficiency Gold - Exam maximiser [antikvár]

Introduction to the Exam Maximiser What is the Proficiency Gold Exam Maximiser? The Proficiency Gold Exam Maximiser is specially designed to maximise students' chances of success in the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English examination. Who is the Proficiency Gold Exam Maximiser for and in what situations can it be used? The Exam Maximiser is extremely flexible and can be used by students In a variety of ways. Here are some typical situations. The Exam Maximiser offers: • further practice of all the important grammar and skills that you study in the Proficiency Gold Coursebook, plus the opportunity to revise and extend your vocabulary work. • the facts about the papers and questions in the Proficiency exam.The Exam overview on pages 6 and 7 gives you information on each of the five papers. • step-by-step guidance with the strategies and techniques you need to get a good grade in the exam. There are also Exam Tips! to help you to Improve your performance and avoid common pitfalls. • exercises in exam format so that you can practise using the strategies, and familiarise yourself with the demands of the exam task. • Study Tips to guide you to more analytical and productive approaches to recording and using vocabulary. • practical advice about how and when to use new language most effectively. • writing skills training, including sample answers, to lead you to thoughtful planning, improving and editing of summaries and compositions. • a complete Practice exam which shows you exactly what you need to do in the Proficiency exam. 1 You are doing a Proficiency course with other students, probably over an academic year You are all planning to take the exam at the same time. You are using the Proficiency Gold Coursebook in class.You may sometimes do related exercises, or even a whole unit of the Exam Maximiser in class. Your teacher may set exercises from it to do as homework, to revise and extend your classwork.You could use the entire Exam Maximiser as part of your course, or you and your teacher may use it to focus on your particular revision needs, depending on the time available. You have already done a longer Proficiency course, and are now doing a short intensive course before taking the exam. You have already worked through the Proficiency Gold Coursebook, or perhaps another Proficiency level coursebook, and so you will be using the Exam Maximiser in class.The exam-format tasks and strategies in the Exam Maximiser will help you to improve your performance and confidence, while the Practice exam will show you everything you need to do in the Proficiency exam. You have a very short period in which to prepare for the Proficiency exam. Your level of English is already nearing Proficiency exam standard.What you now need is an understanding of the demands of the exam and the skills and strategies necessary to pass.The Exam Maximiser has been designed to help you to activate what you know, and to