Latest College English Test Band 4 Exam 710 Score New Format: Wang Maimai's CET-4 English Lecture Hall

Author: Wang Maimai, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features:
1. Weighting: Listening comprehension originally accounted for 20% of the total score, now increased to 35%; reading comprehension decreased from 40% to 35%; the old CET-4 total score was 100 points, while the new CET-4 is 710 points.
2. Content: The old CET-4 focused on reading, while the new CET-4 emphasizes listening; the old CET-4 had simpler question types, while the new CET-4 has more diverse question types; the old CET-4 was mainly multiple-choice questions, while the new CET-4 has significantly increased the proportion of non-multiple-choice questions; the old CET-4 had relatively lower volume and difficulty, while the new CET-4 has increased in volume and difficulty.
3. Question Types: The new CET-4 no longer includes "Vocabulary and Structure" and "English-Chinese Translation" sections, but adds five new question types: 1. Listening Comprehension (Long Conversations), 2. Cloze, 3. Fast Reading Comprehension, 4. Error Correction, 5. Chinese-English Translation.
4. Duration: The new CET-4 exam duration is 125 minutes, while the old CET-4 was 120 minutes.
5. Answer Sheets: The old CET-4 used one answer sheet, while the new CET-4 uses two answer sheets; Fast Reading and Writing use Answer Sheet 1, while the rest use Answer Sheet 2.
6. Question Order: The old CET-4: Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, Cloze (Short Answer, English-Chinese Translation), Vocabulary and Structure, Writing; The new CET-4: Writing, Fast Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Careful Reading Comprehension, Cloze or Error Correction, Chinese-English Translation.