TECFEE study guide
TECFEE · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
TECFEE is an English proficiency credential built around the language demands of Chinese financial economics: banking, securities, macro policy, corporate finance, and trade. It is aimed at candidates who already handle everyday English but need to read, discuss, and produce financial content accurately - graduate students in finance and economics, analysts preparing for bilingual roles, and professionals who correspond with overseas counterparties. The TECFEE study guide has 6 sections and about 2,382 words.
01Listening Comprehension
The Listening Comprehension domain tests whether you can follow spoken financial English in realistic settings: earnings calls, client meetings, internal briefings and market commentary. Tasks typically ask for gist, specific detail, figures, speaker attitude and short inference.
398 words, about 2 min02Reading Comprehension
The Reading Comprehension domain tests how well you extract meaning from written financial texts: annual report narratives, central bank statements, prospectus risk factors, financial news and internal memos. Question types cover main idea, specific detail, inference, reference (what "it" or "the former" points to), writer attitude, and vocabulary in context.
401 words, about 2 min03Vocabulary and Grammar in Financial Context
This domain tests control of the lexis and structures that finance uses precisely: collocations, dependent prepositions, word formation, tense and aspect in reporting, and modal/conditional forms in contracts and risk statements. Questions are usually short gap-fills or sentence-level corrections, but the deciding factor is almost always collocation and preposition choice rather than general meaning.
383 words, about 2 min04Writing (Business and Financial Communication)
The Writing domain tests whether you can produce clear, appropriately formal business and financial communication under time pressure: client emails, internal memos, short reports, responses to complaints and summaries of data. Marking focuses on task achievement (every bullet covered), organisation, register, grammatical accuracy and range of structure and vocabulary.
407 words, about 2 min05Speaking (Professional and Financial Communication)
The Speaking domain tests spoken professional English in financial situations: describing charts and results, handling client calls, contributing opinions in meetings and summarising a short text or set of figures. Assessment covers fluency, pronunciation, vocabulary range, grammatical accuracy and interaction - turn-taking, clarifying and recovering when you do not know something.
384 words, about 2 min06Translation and Interpretation of Financial Texts
This domain tests translating financial texts between English and Chinese with terminological accuracy and natural style, plus short consecutive or sight interpretation. Marks are awarded for fidelity to meaning, correct terminology, accurate figures, grammatical control in the target language and appropriate register.
409 words, about 2 min