C1 Advanced (CAE) Practice — Free Online Exercises
C1 Advanced (formerly CAE) certifies full operational command of English for university study and professional work. The exam has four papers: Reading & Use of English (8 parts), Writing, Listening and Speaking. Everything below comes from real past papers and trusted coursebooks, is free, and is marked instantly with an explanation for every answer.
C1 Advanced Reading & Use of English practice · 389 exercises
The Reading & Use of English paper tests grammar, vocabulary and reading comprehension in one sitting — from cloze tasks that probe collocations and structures to long texts with detailed comprehension questions. Every exercise here comes from real Cambridge past papers and well-known coursebooks, is marked instantly, and explains each answer.
- C1 Advanced Multiple Choice Cloze — Reading & Use of English Part 1 · 53 exercises
- C1 Advanced Open Cloze — Reading & Use of English Part 2 · 52 exercises
- C1 Advanced Word Formation — Reading & Use of English Part 3 · 59 exercises
- C1 Advanced Key Word Transformations — Reading & Use of English Part 4 · 62 exercises
- C1 Advanced Multiple Choice Reading — Reading & Use of English Part 5 · 40 exercises
- C1 Advanced Cross-Text Multiple Matching — Reading & Use of English Part 6 · 39 exercises
- C1 Advanced Gapped Text — Reading & Use of English Part 7 · 41 exercises
- C1 Advanced Multiple Matching — Reading & Use of English Part 8 · 43 exercises
C1 Advanced Listening practice · 81 exercises
The Listening paper plays real-life recordings — interviews, conversations, monologues and short extracts — and tests whether you catch gist, detail, opinion and attitude. Practise every part here with authentic past-paper audio, instant marking and full transcripts to study afterwards.
- C1 Advanced Listening Multiple Choice (Extracts) — Listening Part 1 · 19 exercises
- C1 Advanced Listening Sentence Completion — Listening Part 2 · 21 exercises
- C1 Advanced Listening Multiple Choice (Interview) — Listening Part 3 · 20 exercises
- C1 Advanced Listening Multiple Matching — Listening Part 4 · 21 exercises
C1 Advanced Writing practice · 9 exercises
The Writing paper asks for a compulsory essay plus a second task chosen from genres like articles, letters, reports and reviews. Write your answer here and an AI examiner marks it in about a minute on the four official Cambridge scales — Content, Communicative Achievement, Organisation and Language — with corrections quoted from your own script and an estimated grade. The examiner is calibrated against Cambridge’s own examiner-marked scripts.
C1 Advanced Speaking practice · 14 exercises
The Speaking test is a face-to-face exam with an interview, an individual long turn with photographs, a collaborative task and a discussion. Practise solo with exam timers and a self-recorder, live with a partner over a built-in video call, or as a full three-person mock where a real person reads the official examiner script.