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Six weeks later, an email arrived. Leo held his breath and clicked the link to the Cambridge results portal.

When Leo finally walked out of the building, the sun was setting. He felt hollowed out, his brain a puddle of B2-level vocabulary. He didn’t know if he had passed, but he knew he had used every "In addition" and "In conclusion" he possessed. FCE First Certificate in English (FCE ESOL Camb...

Lunch was a tense affair. He sat on a stone bench outside the testing center, chewing a dry sandwich and listening to other candidates argue over Part 1.“The answer was ‘keen’!” one girl insisted.“No, it was ‘fond’! It had the preposition ‘of’ after it!” another countered.Leo winced. He had written ‘interested.’ He checked his notes. Interested in. Fond of. He had definitely missed that point. Six weeks later, an email arrived

The afternoon brought the "Listening" and "Speaking" components. The Listening was a blur of British, Australian, and Scottish accents discussing everything from extreme ironing to the history of the stapler. Leo stared at the floor, focusing entirely on the "distractors"—those pesky bits of information designed to lead you to the wrong answer. He felt hollowed out, his brain a puddle