{"id":96,"date":"2016-08-10T13:51:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T13:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagepress.net\/wpnew\/?p=96"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:59:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T03:59:14","slug":"cambridge-english-key-ket-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/languagepress.net\/wpnew\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge English: Key (KET) Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Cambridge English: Key (KET) exam tests one&#8217;s ability to use English to communicate in simple situations. Its Reading and Writing paper use simple written information\u00a0such as signs, brochures, newspapers and magazines to test one&#8217;s understanding of written English. The candidate will be asked to go through textual information and stories and will be asked to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>match sentences to the corresponding sign or notice.<\/li>\n<li>choose the best word to complete the sentence.<\/li>\n<li>find the right answer for everyday conversations.<\/li>\n<li>understand the detail and main ideas of a piece of text.<\/li>\n<li>complete words and sentences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To be precise, at Part 1 you will be asked to look at some symbols or signages that have short textual descriptions. You will need to map these descriptions to the full length descriptions provided. Part 2 is all about completing sentences through picking the proper words. Part 3 has conversations &#8211; you will need to pick the proper responses to the first part of the conversation, which may be a question or a comment (or whatever).<\/p>\n<p>Part 4 is reading comprehension. Instead of simple Yes\/No you now have Right\/Wrong and Doesn&#8217;t say. Part 5 is reading comprehension with grammatical choices provided. Part 6 is all about vocabulary &#8211; you will need to come up with words from scratch so to satisfy the descriptions. Part 7 is fill-in-the-blanks for correspondences, and the answers are mostly grammatical. Part 8 has forms to fill in following the instruction provided. Part 9 is writing &#8211; you will need to write a short note for a given purpose. This note should be less than 50 words in length.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do note that the actual exam version you encounter may have a slightly different structure and format!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cambridge English: Key (KET) exam tests one&#8217;s ability to use English to communicate in simple situations. Its Reading and&#8230; <span class=\"gridview-grid-post-read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/languagepress.net\/wpnew\/?p=96\">read more<span class=\"gridview-sr-only\"> Cambridge English: Key (KET) Overview<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/languagepress.net\/wpnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/languagepress.net\/wpnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/languagepress.net\/wpnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/languagepress.net\/wpnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/languagepress.net\/wpnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/languagepress.net\/wpnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"http:\/\/languagepress.net\/wpnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/languagepress.net\/wpnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/languagepress.net\/wpnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/languagepress.net\/wpnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}