DOs and DON’Ts for FCE PAPER 3 – USE OF ENGLISH

DO check your spelling and make sure you copy things down correctly.

DO make sure in all parts that you put your answer by the correct number on your 
answer sheet. 


DO make sure that an answer in Part 3 is based only on the word at the end of the 
same line. 


DO  remember always to write the prompt word unchanged in your answer for Part 4.


DO make sure that the sentence you complete in Part 4 is as close in meaning to 
the first sentence as possible. 


DON’T  decide on an answer without reading the whole of a sentence.

DON’T  forget to look carefully at the text in Part 3 in order to decide on the grammatical 
form of the missing words. 


DON’T forget to change the word given in capitals in Part 3. 


DON’T   write more than 5 words in your answer in Part 4. 


DON’T  write an answer in Part 4 which forms two sentences