{"id":190,"date":"2013-12-02T11:28:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T11:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2016-11-18T15:46:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T15:46:46","slug":"new-features-available-in-french-test-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/new-features-available-in-french-test-com\/","title":{"rendered":"New features: Improvement timelines, level charts, personalised studyplans and free lessons for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m excited to let you know we’ve just released a new version of Kwiziq<\/a> with some powerful new features to help your French language skills, and give you a really clear picture of how taking regular French tests is one of the most effective ways to improve.<\/p>\n

New Dashboard<\/h2>\n

Your Improvement Timeline<\/h3>\n

The first thing you’ll notice if you’re a regular user of our French tests is the new Dashboard. After completing any French test, your Dashboard is there to show you how you improving your French. The most important change here is the addition of the new French improvement timeline graph<\/strong>. When you first see this graph it’ll be pretty boring since it only has one data point but over time this graph shows how your French is improving overall.<\/p>\n

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If you’ve come back to us some time after your initial CEFR test, then you might see a long gap in your early data, like this:<\/p>\n

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The graph shows two things: the top line represents the topics you’ve covered in your tests out of the thousands of topics available in the system. The line below shows your Kwiziq Score over the whole French language (or rather the grammatical aspect up to and including level B2).<\/p>\n

What’s a Kwiziq Score?<\/h4>\n

Kwiziq is built using our advanced language testing technology. Kwiziq builds what we affectionately call Brainmaps of your language skills which it maintains as you take more tests. Your Kwiziq Score is an overall measure of confidence in French. However, you should think about it simply as a number that you try to grow.<\/p>\n

My Kwiziq score is low, does that mean I’m no good?<\/h4>\n

Not at all<\/strong>. In fact, a low score is inevitable for everyone initially: the score is expressed on the Dashboard as a ratio over the whole language based on what you have tested so far, so in fact it will start out tiny. You should see a steep increase in the early days as you do more tests and Kwiziq learns more about what you know and finds your level.<\/p>\n

Don’t worry about the actual value too much; what’s important is that as you take more French tests, you should start to see the value increase over time. What you need to know is that your Kwiziq Score will generally…<\/p>\n