Course details

Our intensive courses will provide you with class input every week and additional of work on assignments outside of class. You can study at home, in our computer lab or in the DCU Library.

We constantly expand our teaching resources and we will provide you with the most up-to-date materials to learn from. Our DCULS classrooms are equipped with interactive whiteboards and Wi-Fi to enhance your learning. During the course, you will be given at least one mock exam to experience the real life exam conditions and to make you feel confident before taking the external exam. All of our exam preparation courses are supported by an online platform which will provide you with extra resources to learn from and which will also enable you to communicate with your tutor and other classmates outside of class time.

All of our tutors have many years of experience in teaching exam preparation classes and some of them have worked as examiners before. Their excellent professional skills will help you improve your language and feel confident before taking the exam.

  • Minimum entry level required: placement test on the first day
  • Expert tuition from experienced teachers
  • Course fees do not include the exam registration fee
  • Course registration fees include a course book and course materials

Examination Subject Areas

The exam focuses on the four main skills areas of academic English

  • Formal expression in both speaking and writing
  • Reading and critiquing information from academic texts
  • Listening for specific information as required for lecture
  • English Grammar
Updated on 08 November, 2015

About Dublin City University

DCU is a young, dynamic and ambitious university with a distinctive mission to transform lives and societies through education, research and innovation. Since admitting its first students in 1980, DCU has grown in both student numbers and size and now occupies a 72 acre site in Glasnevin, just north of Dublin city.

To date over 43,000 students have graduated from DCU and are now playing significant roles in enterprise and business globally. Today, in 2012, DCU delivers more than 120 programmes to over 10,000 students across its ftheir faculties – Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Health, Engineering and Computing and DCU Business School.

DCU's excellence is recognised internationally and it is ranked among the top 50 Universities worldwide (QS 'Top 50 under 50' 2012). In the last eight years, DCU has twice been named Sunday Times 'University of the Year'.

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