DELF B2 reading

The floor is the thing to understand

DELF is passed on an overall mark, but every paper carries a hard floor: fall below it on one paper and the whole diploma is lost regardless of the total. For a candidate whose French is uneven — strong speaking, slower reading — that floor is the real obstacle, and it is the reason reading practice is worth prioritising even if it is not your weakest-feeling skill.

FEI describes the task uniformly across levels — read documents and answer questions — and does not publish per-exercise question counts or a typology on the level pages. This page prints the published duration and marking with their source and points you at the official manuel du candidat for the rest.

Training for two long texts, not many short ones

Two long texts in an hour is a stamina task as much as a comprehension one. The failure mode is not misunderstanding a sentence; it is losing the thread of the second text because the first one used up your attention. Practising on very short extracts does not build that stamina — reading something with an actual argument, every day, does.

LingoRead writes a French passage at your level daily, with audio and tap-to-translate, and asks comprehension questions on it. Set the length longer as your comprehension holds; that is the closest daily analogue to what the B2 hour asks of you.

Honest scope

Compréhension écrite is one of four papers and LingoRead trains only it. Listening, the written production and the oral are outside what reading practice reaches, and no practice tool can tell you whether you cleared the floor — only the result can.