The results for January are out. You can compare this with previous months’ French Test statistics.
We’ve graded another 161 CEFR French levels (111 in Nov), and 544 smart French tests were taken (183 in Nov).
French Tests taken by type (CEFR and Kwiz “smart” tests)
Left, CEFR tests by level awarded; Right, CEFR French placements tests taken versus Kwizzes taken (our smart French tests).
Do you know your French level? If not, take our French CEFR test.
Similar to previous months, the number of beginners is large and drops off gradually with difficulty and then suddenly leaps up again with advanced students.
We’ve seen a large increase in smart tests as more and more students discover how powerful they are for improving your French.
This month’s Top Testers – improvement scores
| Rank | Test this month | New Ground Covered* | Relative Brain Gain** | |||
| 1 | 226 | 38.6% | 67.0% | |||
| 2 | 24 | 5.5% | 67.9% | |||
| 3 | 22 | 7.7% | 75.5% | |||
| 4 | 21 | 7.8% | 70.6% | |||
| 5 | 20 | 6.0% | 29.4% |
* NGC is percentage of new topics tested up to CEFR level B2.
**RBG is a measure of test-demonstrated knowledge in the new topics covered.
Once again our top French tester had an amazing month in January, taking an incredible 226 tests, covering a third more of our topics and seeing a knowledge gain in those topics of 67%.
How does French testing relate to number of tests taken?
The more tests you take correlates directly to improvement in knowledge.
As you can see, there is huge positive correlation between test frequency and improvement in knowledge. All of our top testers are proving that "A test a day will you get an A!”
Author info
[Follow on Twitter: @gruffdavies] Despite the very Welsh name, Gruff is actually half French. Nowadays, he's a tech entrepreneur (and some-time novelist) but he used to be a physicist at Imperial College before getting hooked on inventing things. He has a special interest in language learning, speaks five languages to varying degrees of fluency and he often blogs about language learning, science, and technology. As well as co-founding Kwiziq, he is the author the Amazon best-selling SF thriller, The Looking Glass Club and the inventor of the Exertris gaming exercise-bike and Pidgin, a free online tool that makes drawing flow charts and relationship diagrams as quick and easy as describing them in pidgin English.