Változások a Cambridge English First vizsgában 2015 januártól

Description	Current version	Revised version (2015)
Format	Five papers	Four papers (Reading and Use of English have been combined)
Timing	3 hours 59 minutes	3 hours 29 minutes
Number of Parts	17	17
Number of questions	104	84

The Reading and Use of English papers have been combined.
The revised paper takes 1 hour 15 minutes, which is 30 minutes shorter than the current Reading and Use of English papers.
All the task types from both papers have been kept but the number of items in each task has been reduced.
From 2015, there will be 7 parts and 52 questions.
Use of English tasks come before Reading tasks so that there is a clear progression from a focus at word and sentence level to a focus on whole text.

The compulsory Part 1 question is now an essay rather than an email or letter.
The word count for both parts has increased to 140–190 words.
In Part 2, candidates now choose from three questions rather than five, and candidates can decide to write an article, a report, a review or an email/letter.
There will no longer be questions on set texts.

All the current listening tasks are retained.
In Part 1 the options are now not read out.
In the Part 3 question there are now two additional distractors – so there are three distractors in all.

Overall the revised Speaking paper takes the same length of time and has the same number of parts and tasks but there are changes to each part.
In Part 1, the timing has been reduced from 3 minutes to 2 minutes.
In Part 2, the candidate response time has increased from 20 seconds to 30 seconds.
In Part 3, the picture prompts are replaced with written prompts. The task is now split into two to include a discussion phase and a decision-making phase.