CAMBRIDGE CERTIFICATE OF PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH

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CAMBRIDGE CERTIFICATE OF PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH, short form CPE. Also referred to as Cambridge Proficiency in English, Cambridge Proficiency, Proficiency. A prestigious EFL examination introduced by UCLES in 1913 for foreign teachers of English, and taken throughout the world by advanced learners of English. It has no teacher-training content, but has an academic orientation and its standard is equivalent to GCE A Level (UK: General Certificate of Education Advanced Level).

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CAMBRIDGE CERTIFICATE OF PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH

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