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[Coogar]

Hiya,
I found some extensive vocabulary collections to prepare SAT/GRE.
Can anybody tell me if this could also prove useful for the CAE? Not that it would harm anybody to have some more expressions/synonyms in store but I also want to use the time given as efficiently as possible and not waste it on studying very specific vocabulary while I could spend it on studies that are more likely to help passing the exam.
Thanks in advance!

[stillnosheep]

Everything can be useful but if I were a foreign student studying for CAE I'd do a lot of reading of good quality English factual texts in an area I was already interested in (we read more and better when we are interested in the subject matter) plus I'd take a couple of past tests - one at the beginning to have an idea of what is expected, and one or two (no more) at the end for practice; I'd have BBC Radio 4 playing on my computer all the time to get used to listening to good English; I'd practice the speaking part with a friends with good-ish English practicing conversational strategies: turn-taking and bringing others into the conversation, keeping conversations going; agreeing and disagreeing politely etc rather than the specifics of any particular topic; I'd read articles from quality magazines or newspapers and try to analyse the arguments they put forward.

The CAE begins to measure reasoning skills (and social-intelligence in the speaking test) as well as pure English.