We launched French-Test.com a few months ago and we’ve already had our thousandth French test taken! I thought it would be fun to analyse our students and share the great results people are getting.
French Tests taken by type (CEFR and Level Focus)
Students have taken 1,086 French tests since launch, of which nearly 70% were our CEFR placement test
This month, 72% of tests taken were our new “smart” level focus tests!
French Test Statistics – CEFR French Level Graded
![Pie chart showing CEFR French Level. 39% of students scored A1.1 [now called A0], 20% scored A1, 16% scored A2, 14% scored B1, 4% scored B2, and 7% scored C1](/files/french/blog/2013/09/CEFR-pie.png)
Breakdown of students’ scores on our French CEFR level placement test.
This Month’s Top Testers – Improvement Scores
| Rank | Tests This Month | New Ground Covered* | Relative Brain Gain** | |||
| 1 | 90 | 4.7% | 52.9% | |||
| 2 | 60 | 1.3% | 61.9% | |||
| 3 | 19 | 2.3% | 46.5% | |||
| 4 | 16 | 2.3% | 60.0% | |||
| 5 | 11 | 2.1% | 37.2% |
*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.
Top Tester French Improvement Timeline – 7 days
7-day timeline graph shows how this month’s top French tester has improved their knowledge through our level focus French tests.
How much does test frequency influence improvement?
This scatter plot shows improvement (over the whole of French grammar up to B2) against tests taken.
There’s a clear relationship between student’s French knowledge improvement and the number of tests they take. The percentages on the left are relative to the entire French language up to level B2 in our system – these are impressively strong improvements and show that more tests result in improved French!
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.