But today's exam is very different to that very first paper. In 1913, three people sat down to take the first Cambridge English exam. They were all teachers and all of them failed.

Now, this exam is known as the C2 Proficiency, and Cambridge English exams are taken by over 6 million people every year as proof of their English language ability.

An 11th-grade student from Hanoi has earned a perfect score of 150/150 in the Cambridge IGCSE English as a Second Language (ESL) exam, securing a top global ranking and excelling in multiple other ...

Part of an English test first sat in 1913 has been released by Cambridge University to mark 110 years since its first Cambridge English exams. Only three students took the Certificate of ...

Cambridge English, part of the University of Cambridge, has launched Cambridge English Qualifications Digital, a ...

Student from Marina Regina School Indonesia. Cambridge Checkpoint tests assess progress in Mathematics, English and Science and are typically taken by learners at the end of Cambridge Primary (age ...

The study found that the students preparing to take a Cambridge English exam were motivated to learn and that they regularly engaged in activities outside the classroom to practise their English. In ...

The questions were set for the three students who took the first ever C2 English exam. The C2 remains the pinnacle of the Cambridge English exams, which are taken by 6.1million people annually.

While Union Home Minister Amit Shah may have asserted that soon a time would come when those speaking English in the country ...

Cambridge University Press and Assessment (CUP&A), one of the UK's biggest exam providers, has been setting papers since the 1850s and its English exams have now been taken by more than 100 ...

Image caption, Three people sat the first Cambridge English exam in 1913, now it is taken by more than a million people a year Article Information Author, Janine Machin Role, BBC News ...