Cambridge C2 Proficiency (CPE) Exam Cram Sheet (2026)

The highest-yield points on the Cambridge C2 Proficiency (CPE)exam, grouped by the exam's real content areas. Print it, review the ones you keep missing, then drill them with free practice questions.

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5content areas

Proficiency-Level Grammar

24% of the exam

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Subjunctive and Unreal Uses
Complex Inversion and Fronting
Ellipsis and Substitution

Vocabulary in Context

22% of the exam

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Fine Connotation and Register
Idiom and Low-Frequency Lexis

Word Formation

18% of the exam

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Complex and Rare Derivations
Nominalisation and Abstraction

Prepositions and Articles

18% of the exam

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Idiomatic and Literary Prepositions
Subtle and Emphatic Article Use

Error Correction

18% of the exam

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Subtle Concord and Structure
Idiom Integrity and Register

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