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mcl sonya · Joined: 12 Dec 2007 Posts: 179 Location: Qingdao

hello-
I've been trying to find information on this test, but I think my google skills are failing me because I haven't been able to find much (besides stuff in Chinese that didn't lead to anything). I did a search in this forum as well but there were no results to this topic in the first two pages. could anyone help me out and give me some links as to what exactly is on this test? it seems like there must be a lot of webpages in English on what the test is and how to prepare for it, but I'm really inept at finding it.

thanks in advance,

sonya

Anda · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 2199 Location: Jiangsu Province

Results 1 - 10 of about 308,000 for CET English test. (0.30 seconds)

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College English Test - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe College English Test , better known as CET, is a national English as a Foreign Language ... CET consisted of non-English-specialized band 4 and band 6, ...
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Anda · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 2199 Location: Jiangsu Province

1 - 10 of about 3,100,000 for College English Test China. (0.30 seconds)

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College English Test - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe College English Test , better known as CET, is a national English as a Foreign Language test in the People's Republic of China. ...
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eddy-cool · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 1008

I kept hearing from my superiors that varsity students had to pass the 'CET 6' test; to do so they were required to master a measly 4500 words.

Maybe it was CET 4, not sure, but 4500 words at varsity level?

lf_aristotle69 · Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 546 Location: HangZhou, China

Yes, that word count is quite low, but I also think that use of the word "master" is being a bit too generous as well...

LFA

randyj · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:17 pm Post subject:

Not to nitpick here, but maybe it's worthwhile to make a distinction between "words" and "word families". If I recall correctly, a college-trained native speaker knows 20,000 word families. I bet that any student of English with command of 4,500 word families would do well in the Band 6 CET.

william wallace · Joined: 14 May 2003 Posts: 2869 Location: in between

Those folks with CET 4 or 6 had little barring on the scores they received in IELTS or iBT TOEFL.

mcl sonya · Joined: 12 Dec 2007 Posts: 179 Location: Qingdao

I wasn't specific enough - I know what the test *is*, but I can't find any pages with things like sample questions and advice on how to prepare for it.