TCF reading

All multiple choice, and some of it does not count

On the computer-delivered paper you will see more reading items than are scored: the extras are trial questions FEI uses to validate future items, and they do not affect your result. You are not told which ones they are, so the only sane strategy is to treat every item as real and to keep your pace steady rather than agonising over an item that felt unusually strange.

Because the paper spans the whole CEFR range, you will meet items below and above your level in the same sitting. There is no target band to study to. What raises a TCF reading score is the same thing that raises your reading generally: more comprehension, faster, across more registers.

Preparing for a scaled test

The mistake is buying a "TCF B2" book and drilling one band. The productive alternative is reading French every day at the edge of what you can hold, letting the difficulty rise as your comprehension holds, and answering questions each time so the rise is earned rather than assumed.

That is exactly the loop LingoRead runs: a fresh French passage daily at your current level, audio, tap-to-translate, comprehension questions, and looked-up words saved as review cards from their own sentences.

Honest scope

TCF comes in several versions for different purposes — general, Canadian immigration, Québec, French nationality, residency — and the version you need is decided by the authority asking, not by us. LingoRead trains reading comprehension in French and nothing else about the procedure.