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TEF Canada and TCF Canada reading practice

Pick a level and a theme, read the document, choose an answer: the correction and its reason appear straight away, and your tally builds up on the right.

Question 1 of 10B2 · Society

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Le télétravail sauvera-t-il nos villages ? Depuis quelques années, on entend souvent que le travail à distance va redonner vie aux petites municipalités. Des familles quittent la ville, achètent une maison avec un grand terrain et travaillent depuis leur salon. Je ne nie pas le phénomène : dans mon propre village, trois maisons longtemps vides ont trouvé preneur. Mais il faut se méfier des conclusions trop rapides. Ces nouveaux habitants font souvent leurs courses en ligne, inscrivent leurs enfants à des activités en ville et passent leurs soirées devant leur ordinateur. Leur arrivée fait monter le prix des maisons, sans forcément faire vivre l’épicerie ou le café du coin. Un village, ce n’est pas seulement des toits occupés ; c’est une vie commune. Le télétravail peut y contribuer, à condition que les nouveaux venus aient envie de participer à cette vie, et que les municipalités leur en donnent l’occasion.

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Our French reading practice draws ten questions at a time from a bank of 72 items written by Radif Partners, covering the six CEFR levels from A1 to C2 and twelve everyday themes such as work, housing, health and public services. Each item has four options and is corrected the moment you answer, with a short explanation in English and French and the CEFR descriptor it was written against. The real tests are longer and timed: the TEF Canada reading test has 40 questions in 60 minutes, the TCF Canada one 39 questions in 60 minutes, and both report a score on a scale that ends at 699. On those scales NCLC 7 in reading starts at 434 for the TEF and 453 for the TCF. These are not questions taken from either test, and no practice set can predict an official score: the useful signal is the level where your accuracy drops, because that is where your study time pays off. Answers stay in this browser only.

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Format40 questions in 60 min
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How the practice set works

Leave both filters on "All" for a first set: you get ten questions drawn from every level, which shows quickly where you stand. Then choose a level (A1 to C2) to stay on the band you need, or a theme if a type of document bothers you, such as administrative letters or job offers. Each answer is corrected at once: the right option turns green, a short explanation says why, and a reference line names the CEFR level descriptor the question was written for. The panel on the right counts your right answers and lists them level by level.

The documents are what a newcomer reads in a normal week: notices in a building, emails from an employer, a clinic letter, a city announcement, an opinion piece for the higher levels. The bank was written for this site by Radif Partners; it is not a copy of any test paper.

The two reading tests in figures

Both tests are multiple-choice and both are timed, which changes the task: reading well is not enough, you must read well at a steady pace. The table below divides the official time by the number of questions.

Reading tests: number of questions and duration (CCI Paris Île-de-France; TCF candidate manual, version J), NCLC 7 thresholds (IRCC chart).
TestQuestionsMinutesSeconds per questionNCLC 7 from
TEF Canada406090434
TCF Canada396092453

The TCF manual adds that each question has 4 options with one right answer and that difficulty rises along the test, so the last documents take longer than the first ones. The CCI presentation of the TEF Canada and the TCF candidate manual describe the two formats. The small calculator under the summary turns a time budget into seconds per question.

CEFR levels and test scores

Our questions carry a CEFR level because that is the scale both test bodies use to describe what a candidate can do. The TEF and the TCF place the same score bands on that scale:

Score bands per CEFR level (CCI Paris Île-de-France table; TCF candidate manual).
CEFR levelTEF scoreTCF score
C2600–699600–699
C1500–599500–599
B2400–499400–499
B1300–399300–399
A2200–299200–299
A1100–199100–199

A set where you pass B1 easily and stumble on B2 points to a score around the lower end of the B2 band, but that is a direction, not a forecast. The CEFR level page explains both scales, and the TEF and TCF score pages convert to NCLC.

What the result does and does not tell you

After "See my result", the panel shows an indication of our own: the highest level up to which you got at least two thirds right, checked one level after another. A set of ten questions is small, so two sets can disagree. The official tests work differently: the CCI gives one point per right answer and then turns the total into a calibrated score, and both bodies calibrate their scales on many candidates. Treat our indication as a way to choose the next level to practise.

A way to use the sets (our suggestion)

Start with two or three unfiltered sets to find the level where your accuracy falls. Spend most of your sessions one level above your comfortable one, reading each explanation even when you were right. Once you hold that level, take a timed section on the TEF Canada mock or the TCF Canada mock to work on pace. Missed questions are kept in this browser, and the review page lets you answer them again until they are right. Nothing leaves your device: a private window or cleared storage starts from zero.

What test takers ask

Are these reading questions taken from past TEF or TCF papers?

No. Every document and question was written by Radif Partners for this site, against the CEFR global scale of the Council of Europe. They follow the spirit of the tests (everyday documents, four options, rising difficulty) but they are not official material, and nobody outside the test bodies can publish their real questions.

How many reading questions can I practise here?

The bank holds 72 questions, shared between the six CEFR levels and twelve themes. Each set draws ten of them; the "New set of questions" button draws ten others, and the level and theme filters narrow the pool. Some documents carry two or three questions, which is also how the real reading tests work.

What does the level shown after a reading set mean?

It is our own rough indication: the highest CEFR level up to which you answered at least two thirds of the questions correctly, level after level. It is not a TEF or TCF score. The test bodies calibrate their scores on large groups of candidates, which a ten-question set cannot reproduce.

Is the reading level for Express Entry the same as a CEFR level?

Not exactly. IRCC uses NCLC levels, read from each test's own chart. On the TEF Canada, NCLC 7 in reading starts at 434, inside the CEFR B2 band that begins at 400. The practice works with CEFR levels because the questions are written against them; the score pages convert to NCLC.

Next steps

TEF Canada mock test

Timed TEF Canada reading and listening sections with the official number of questions and duration.

TCF Canada mock test

Timed TCF Canada reading and listening sections: official question count and duration, easiest to hardest.

French listening practice

French recordings read by your browser, from A1 to C2, with the transcript after each answer.

Review my mistakes

Your practice results and every question you missed, to answer again until it is right. Stored in your browser only.

TEF and TCF to CEFR

TEF and TCF scores read as CEFR levels, A1 to C2, and the level France and IRCC ask in CEFR terms.

Preparing for the test

A step-by-step way to prepare the TEF Canada or TCF Canada: target, level check, weekly plan, timed practice.

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