Hi guys, I am a currently taking Cambridge English classes. It seems that most of you don't have much information about it, so I will try my best to help you out . There are many levels in the Cambridge English classes, which you can find more about them over here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of...OL_Examinations

I am currently doing CAE, and I would say the standard is quite good. The teaching? It depends what kind of teacher you get. Don't expect an intensive class, as this is not one. If you are the kind of people who thinks that that the quality of teaching is no good because very little is accomplished in every class, the Cambridge English is not for you.



Yes, that is true in UK universities, you can also do that in some Australian, Singaporean universities, but it depends on the university you are interested in applying. Check the admissions webpage of the univeristy to find out more.

Please do not accuse Cambridge of possessing a weak English skill, since Cambridge is a prestige university with high reputation in the English sector.. Instead, blame Cambridge centers Malaysian branch. Do not compare them, since both of the examinations are the same, the ESOL you take in the British Council is from Cambridge International Examinations, which is a sector of Cambridge. Even the CIE A levels provided these are of Edexcel and Cambridge.. You can only compare the faculties and teachers. The teachers at Cambridge centers are hired Malaysians, therefore, still possessing Malaysian style of English and their regular procrastination. In addition, the fact that they're part timers indicates that's not their main pot of rice, so they don't need to work extra hard.
While in British Council, the teachers are hired from English speaking countries, whose native language is English. Even if they're losers back then, they'll still be professionals here because English's their first language. Therefore, their teaching is much much better.
However, if you're just pursuing the recognition of the certificates, both are the same no matter where you take your examinations, because every sites will eventually report the scores back to Cambridge for evaluation. Please do some research.

This is not quite true. There are quite a number of teachers of foreign nationality, and even local teachers are quite good in teaching, sometimes better! At least thats the way in my center -- Cambridge English For Life

I don't know about other centers, but there are only 9 certified centers in Malaysia, 6 in KL and 2 in Selangor and 1 in Penang. Are you sure that you called the right center? The one you called might be bogus. check it here:

http://cambridgeesol-centres.org/centres/s...ion=ALL&=Search


This post has been edited by EducationABC: Jun 13 2011, 03:12 PM

EducationABC, which Camabridge English for Life centre are you studying? How much is the course fee for CAE?

Hi Im frm Cambridge English for Life puchong branch and have just completed my Cambridge CAE course last week and going to take the ESOL Exam this week @@
anyway what I have went through the whole year Is quite fun actually. The syllabus and everything. The teacher i had is a very experience local teacher and is also one of the examiners for the exam. I'm quite lucky to have him. the class is quite small so teacher can have an eye on all of us. and before we got started we have to undergo a placement test to see how is your English. So it's quite professional actually.

This post has been edited by hyunterx: Nov 29 2012, 01:03 AM

u stay at where..???our centre provide the english courses from university of cambridge..if u live at johor bahru u can came to get more information about the english courses..

I would advise people not to take up Ira TouchLearning's English courses. The poster does not have a good command of English and it would be detrimental to any one who wants to learn English.

One can see very glaring errors in the above quoted.

If Ira has a good command of English, the sentence should read -


It is shameful that you are trying to advertise for English courses when your command of the language is atrocious.
Please learn proper grammar, punctuation and sentence structure before you advertise for an English language course.

A Level General paper is pretty interesting paper i think, covers almost every area of general knowledge and of course grammar,vocabulary
accepted in some uni as meeting the english language pre-req