Essay 3: TOEFL vs. FCE?

From my point of view, I'm in favor of taking TOEFL instead of FCE. First of all, the main reason I can say is that all of the institutions, like universities or jobs, generally ask for certain number of points of TOEFL as a general measure of english proficiency.

In the other hand, while many people say FCE is better because it does not have to be renewed, TOEFL has to be taken every two years because of its importance, I mean, to prove others that we are still in touch with english. Besides, for the ETS institution (the one that applies TOEFL), it is the renewing process where they make business.

The main disadvantage of the FCE, in my opinion, is that because it is not renewed and time goes by, the less practice you get and the consequence is a high loss of english skills.

To conclude this opinion, I can say that this test is more complete than FCE, because you do not only learn coloquial english, but also the academic one, which helps us to grow and to learn even more that if we just know the simple english.