The KET exam is made up of four papers which

test your Speaking, Listening, Reading and

Writing skills in English.
You have 1 hour 30 minutes for the Reading
and Writing Paper. There are 5 parts of the
reading exam with 35 questions.
The writing exam has 4 parts and 25 questions.
This is 50% of your overall grade.
The listening exam takes 30 minutes. It has 4
parts and 25 questions and is 25% of your
overall grade.
The speaking exam has 2 parts and takes

The PET exam proves that you can

speak English to a A2 level. This
means that your English is
recognised as elementary. Here are
the different grades awarded and the
marks you need to get;
Pass with Distinction (90-100 marks)
Pass with Merit (85-89 marks)
Pass (70-85 marks)
A1 level (45-69 marks)
Fail (0-45 marks)

The reading exam involves matching questions

(Part 1) . You match five sentences to eight
notices. It practices reading real notices in English.
In Part 2 you are given three option multiple choice
questions with six sentences on the same topic.
This practices your vocabulary skills.
Part 3 is a combination of the matching and
multiple choice skills in Parts 1 and 2.
In Part 4 you have to say if some statements are
right/wrong or doesnt say. You are given a news
article or a magazine extract to do this with.
In Part 5 your are tested on a gap fill exercise. You
have to put modal verbs, auxiliary verbs,
determiners, pronouns, prepositions and
conjunctions in the right places in a long text.

As we know writing is a very

important skill! In this part of
the exam you are given some
word definitions to test your
vocabulary. You will identify the
words and then spell them.
Then you have a gap fill
exercise where you fill in the
gaps of an email or short letter.
The final part involves writing a
short message or post-card of
between 25 and 35 words. To
practice this try translating text
messages and tweets into
English.

Listening
In the listening part of the exam you a
multiple choice exercise from short
monologues.
There are five questions in Part 1. It
practices listening for key information like
times, prices, days of the week and
numbers.
In Part 2 there is an informal conversation
where you also have multiple choice
questions. It tests if you can listen for
specific information.
Part 3 is similar.
Part 4 is like a dictation. It is a gap fill
exercise where you have to write down key

Now lets have a look at your

speaking work sheet for some
advice on how best prepare for
the speaking exam.
After that we shall watch some
videos of a practice exam so
you can see what the exam will
be like.