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Cambridge ESOL BEC Preliminary

Business English Certificate (BEC) Preliminary

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ABOUT BEC PRELIMINARY

The Business English Certificates (BEC) from Cambridge ESOL are for learners who want to have an internationally recognised business-related English language qualification. BEC Preliminary is a pre-intermediate-level Cambridge ESOL exam, at Level B1 of the Council of Europe's Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). What is Level B1?

What's in BEC Preliminary?

The table below shows you a summary of the different papers of BEC. You can also view the BEC Preliminary papers in more detail.

Paper	Content	Time	Marks (% of total)
Reading and Writing	Reading: 7 parts Writing: 2 parts	1 hour 30 minutes	50%
Listening	4 parts	about 40 minutes including transfer time	25%
Speaking	3 parts	12 minutes per pair of candidates	25%

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