Hello guys, i'm new here. I read in one of the replies that a member here got the French points in 6 months. Please any idea on the resources she used and how she went about it? I'm a few points away from crs 500 but TEF seems to be the only option now. Thanks for your response
Yes. I am the one who did it in 6months. There's a thread in which i shared my story. I will try to look for it. The things that helped were as follows:
1. I had good tutors who made me love the language even beyond TEF.
2. I was very consistent, hardly missed classes. For the first two months, i attended classes 3 times a week. For the next 4 months, i attended classes everyday (3 hours daily). Mondays to fridays
3. I watched loads of youtube videos, listened to level-appropriate podcasts, including audios of recommended textbooks.
4. I booked conversation classes with another tutor on saturdays.
5. I attended duolingo Lagos club meetings (one sunday in each month). It was precovid. Made french speaking friends there.
6. Attended Alliance Français movie screening ( one sunday in each month). More opportuniity to socialise and practise my french before and after movie.
7. Used language exchange apps to find native speakers, became whatsapp friends with them. One of them stood out. He was committed to me with no strings attached. He gave me one hour of his time everyday. He never missed a day. Thanks Jade. Tunisians are wonderful people.
8. My first teacher was good but he had no experience with TEF. So from B1 I enrolled in a TEF focused french school. You will need a teacher who understands the exam requirements to help tailor your learning. That said, you will do much of the work yourself.
For the exam ppréparation, i joined the facebook group "comment se prepréparer au TEF". I learnt how to write fait diver from that group. There are lots of resources there.
I treated many past questions.
When i sat for TEF, it was a paper exam and questions were often repeated but post covid, it became an online exam. Now there are more past questions to treat than there were precovid. I reccomend the site TEFacademie and prepmyfuture.
You need grit, persisténce and a good memory. All the best.