C2 assessment
Check your C2 proficiency: grammar for effect, nuance, rhetoric, academic and professional writing, and critical listening and reading.
In this lesson you will
- Review all C2 content
- Identify remaining weak areas
- Plan continued development at proficiency level
Learn
This assessment covers the C2 course: grammar for effect, advanced inversion, noun phrases, modality and stance, distancing, marked word order, near-synonyms, idioms, metaphor, collocation, register, rhetoric, argument, fallacies, academic and professional writing, subtext, irony and critical listening.
Results are saved as topic statistics on your Progress page.
80% or more: you have completed the KitWren English path. Keep developing through wide reading, writing for real audiences and discussion. Below 80%: revisit the topics your Progress page highlights.
Examples
- Inversion: So acute was the shortage that rationing began.
- Stance: Ostensibly a reform, the policy is in fact a cut.
- Fallacy: Either we ban cars or the city dies — a false dilemma.
Vocabulary
proficiency
near-native command
mastery
complete skill
lifelong learning
continuing to learn throughout life
finesse
subtle skill
command
control of a language
Practice
___ was the demand that the site crashed.
Listening: A panel on trust in experts
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Host: Has public trust in experts collapsed?
Prof. Rao: ‘Collapsed’ strikes me as a touch dramatic. Trust has become more conditional — people trust experts on some topics, not others.
Ms Kent: I’d broadly agree, with one reservation: conditional trust can be exploited by anyone who sounds confident.
Prof. Rao: That’s true as far as it goes. But the answer isn’t to demand blind trust; it’s to show our working.
Ms Kent: Which, ironically, experts have been rather bad at.
1.How does Prof. Rao view the word “collapsed”?
2.What is Ms Kent’s reservation?
3.What solution does Prof. Rao propose?
4.Ms Kent’s last comment is…
Speaking
Final speaking task (three minutes): a spontaneous, nuanced discussion of “Should experts or citizens decide complex policy?”, including a steelman of the opposing view, a rebuttal and a memorable closing line.
Writing
Final writing task (350–400 words): a critical essay on “Clarity is more important than sophistication in public communication.” Demonstrate stylistic control, nuanced stance and rigorous argument.
- ☐ Positioned, nuanced thesis
- ☐ Rigorous argument with warrants and rebuttals
- ☐ Calibrated hedging and boosting
- ☐ Stylistic control (rhythm, emphasis, register)
- ☐ Evaluative conclusion
Lesson quiz
Only by listening ___ we understand.
Review
Key points
- 80%+ → path complete: keep reading, writing and discussing widely.
- Below 80% → revisit weak topics.
- Proficiency is maintained through use.
What you learned
- ✓ I have completed C2.
- ✓ I know my remaining development areas.
- ✓ I use English with precision and style.
Grammar reference: Inversion for emphasis, The passive voice, Conditionals: zero, first, second and third, Modals of deduction: must, might, can’t