{"id":581,"date":"2014-03-13T14:21:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T14:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/?p=581"},"modified":"2015-11-04T19:22:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T19:22:46","slug":"french-test-statistics-february-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/french-test-statistics-february-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"French Test statistics for February 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Bonjour \u00e0 tous!  <\/em>Incredibly, it&#8217;s mid-March already and have I posted our February stats yet? <em>Non!<\/em> I was off snowboarding in the Alps, but that&#8217;s no excuse so here they are: (You can compare this with previous months&#8217; <a href=\"\/blog\/tag\/statistics\/\">French Test statistics<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>We graded another 121 CEFR French level tests, and 631 smart French tests were taken by eager French learners.  It&#8217;s a short month and we had slightly fewer new testers as a result but more demand for our smart French tests.  This month it seems we had fewer absolute beginners and higher proportion of advanced French speakers testing with us.<\/p>\n<h2>French Tests taken by type (CEFR and Kwiz &#8220;smart&#8221; tests)<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Do you know your French level? If not, <strong><a href=\"\/quickreg\">take our French CEFR test<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_582\" style=\"width: 607px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2014\/03\/pie-cefr-and-kwiz.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-582\" class=\" wp-image-582 \" alt=\"French tests taken in March pie charts\" src=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2014\/03\/pie-cefr-and-kwiz.png\" width=\"597\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2014\/03\/pie-cefr-and-kwiz.png 995w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2014\/03\/pie-cefr-and-kwiz-300x109.png 300w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2014\/03\/pie-cefr-and-kwiz-768x279.png 768w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2014\/03\/pie-cefr-and-kwiz-240x87.png 240w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2014\/03\/pie-cefr-and-kwiz-160x58.png 160w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2014\/03\/pie-cefr-and-kwiz-80x29.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left, CEFR tests by level awarded; right, CEFR French placements tests taken versus Kwizzes taken (our smart French tests)<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>This month&#8217;s Top Testers<\/h2>\n<p>Here are <strong><a href=\"\/leaderboard\/2014\/02\">February&#8217;s Top French Testers<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Since we launched our <strong style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"\/leaderboard\/\">French Test Leaderboards<\/a><\/strong> last month, you can now see whether you&#8217;ve taken enough French tests to appear in the Top Testers League.  In January, Top French Tester Chris amassed <a href=\"\/leaderboard\/2014\/01\">an amazing 226 tests<\/a>, but in February he was pipped to first place by Helen who took an unbelievable 287 tests.<\/p>\n<p>When Helen joined us at the end of January, her French was rusty and she was graded at A0 &#8211; in under a month her enthusiastic French testing has taken her French grammar up <strong>two whole levels<\/strong> to just about B1 level.  To put into perspective, this is a bit like doing <strong>the whole two year GSCE French syllabus in a single month<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>It all goes to show, regular tests are one of the fastest and most effective learning methods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A French test a day will you get an A!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t take my word for it, <a href=\"\/quickreg\">try it for yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gruff<\/p>\n<div id=\"kwiz-app\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-url=\"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/api\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-title=\"Test your French against the CEFR standard\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-return-url=\"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/french-test-statistics-february-2014\/\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-return-title=\"French Test statistics for February 2014\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-questionspercomp=\"1\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-token=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-template=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-kwizkey=\"sorter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bonjour \u00e0 tous! Incredibly, it&#8217;s mid-March already and have I posted our February stats yet? Non! I was off snowboarding in the Alps, but that&#8217;s no excuse so here they are: (You can compare this with previous months&#8217; French Test statistics.) We graded another 121 CEFR French level tests, and 631 smart French tests were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Take a look at Kwiziq's total and top testers in February 2014.","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[111],"coauthors":[120],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-updates","tag-statistics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>French Test statistics for February 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Take a look at Kwiziq&#039;s total and top testers in February 2014.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/french-test-statistics-february-2014\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"French Test statistics for February 2014\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Take a look at Kwiziq&#039;s total and top testers in February 2014.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/french-test-statistics-february-2014\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Kwiziq French Language Learning Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KwiziqFrench\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-03-13T14:21:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-11-04T19:22:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/files\/2014\/03\/pie-cefr-and-kwiz.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"995\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"361\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Gruff Davies\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Gruff Davies\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"BlogPosting\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/french.kwiziq.com\\\/blog\\\/french-test-statistics-february-2014\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/french.kwiziq.com\\\/blog\\\/french-test-statistics-february-2014\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Gruff Davies\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/french.kwiziq.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ac3f0b18ec42602843697308588d15af\"},\"headline\":\"French Test statistics for February 2014\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-03-13T14:21:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-11-04T19:22:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/french.kwiziq.com\\\/blog\\\/french-test-statistics-february-2014\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":322,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/french.kwiziq.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/french.kwiziq.com\\\/blog\\\/french-test-statistics-february-2014\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\\\/files\\\/french\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/03\\\/pie-cefr-and-kwiz.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Statistics\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News &amp; 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