Those of you who are taking IGCSE First Language English (either 0500 or 0990) or essentially any other Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) exam probably already know that tomorrow is the start of exams – wishing you all good luck and the ability to achieve your dreams as you go forward and set yourself upon the people that you are about to take! I don’t know how many of you there are you are just looking at this website at the very last minute, but know that we have all been there and have been looking forward to easy solutions and silver bullets; while this resource helps a lot on that front, I’d like to encourage you not to forget the many hours that you spent preparing for this moment and for this people, which you no doubt have dedicated many of your working hours towards.

Not much for me to say here, apart from this:

Good luck for exams, and I wish you all the best in achieving your dreams!

If this resource help you in some ways, I hope that you will share it with the people around you, and that you got incredible value from it!

Thank you for reading this site, and he is to all your successors in the days ahead!!

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