Anyone learnt French to get more points express entry?

[CanadaPR90]

As I am getting overall estimate of points quite less around 420-430 in express entry, I am thinking if it is practical to learn French in 2-3 months and get good enough score in French exam to bump up overall points for Canada ?

Please share if any pointers ?

 

[hamgha]

As I am getting overall estimate of points quite less around 420-430 in express entry, I am thinking if it is practical to learn French in 2-3 months and get good enough score in French exam to bump up overall points for Canada ?

Please share if any pointers ?

As a French speaker I doubt you'll pull it off enough to get a good score in such a short time. What's you english test score? Is it maxed out?

 

[DelPiero07]

As I am getting overall estimate of points quite less around 420-430 in express entry, I am thinking if it is practical to learn French in 2-3 months and get good enough score in French exam to bump up overall points for Canada ?

Please share if any pointers ?

I learned French from scratch for a year and got B2 in two sections and C1 in the other two in the TEF test.

Unless your level is B2 or higher your results won't be high enough to boost your CRS considerably.

 

[crescent_jam]

As I am getting overall estimate of points quite less around 420-430 in express entry, I am thinking if it is practical to learn French in 2-3 months and get good enough score in French exam to bump up overall points for Canada ?

Please share if any pointers ?

To add on to what hamgha said, as a NON-French speaker (I'm a native English speaker), I briefly examined this option (I would have been learning it from scratch as well, as I studied Spanish at the secondary and tertiary education levels, not French) and quickly decided it was NOT worth it. French isn't as technically complicated as English (I think) since it doesn't appear to have all those ridiculous exceptions to rules that English does, but speaking French is VERY hard to learn if your native language has significantly different pronunciations and accents and other verbal nuances. If the TEF is anything like a French equivalent of IELTS/CELPIP in terms of difficulty, I can't imagine how anyone would be able to gain the necessary proficiency in a year (or even two years, if you're not naturally inclined in learning languages), without fully immersing themselves in the French culture and language... DelPiero, you must be some kind of language savant if you were able to learn enough on your own in one year to add any points to your CRS

 

[CanadaPR90]

Thanks for sharing your opinions ! Definitely helpful..

I am from India but lived in US for many years...so thought of asking this ques if worth trying to learn French or not

 

[Berty3000]

It might be better for you to max out your English score. I got straight 9s on ielts (I'm English, but actually bothered to prepare for it so I could make the most of the time in the exam) and I think I got bonus points for getting the top scores. Like 50 crs points. I might be wrong though. Depending on how good you are at learning new languages, you could make a lot of effort and not gain much, if anything, by learning French from scratch.

 

[scylla]

As I am getting overall estimate of points quite less around 420-430 in express entry, I am thinking if it is practical to learn French in 2-3 months and get good enough score in French exam to bump up overall points for Canada ?

Please share if any pointers ?

2-3 months is never going to happen. You need a minimum of one year of concentrated study and practice. And even then you may not achieve the required score.

 

[Raz0r]

Thanks for sharing your opinions ! Definitely helpful..

I am from India but lived in US for many years...so thought of asking this ques if worth trying to learn French or not

Living in a particular area doesn't help much. Just try to max out on your language score, guess that'll do the trick. Good luck.

 

[CanadaPR90]

Thanks all for sharing your opinion.

@Berty3000 or anyone else - I checked the CRS point calculator link and when I change IELTS score to Max and then around 7 in all sections....total difference in points is showing around 10-15 only. Please let me know if there is any link you could share where I could see difference of 50 points when one score max in IELTS

 

[CanadaPR90]

Anybody please advise ?

 

[Raz0r]

You can calculate your CRS score here -> http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/crs-tool.asp

Its the official CRS calculator from the CIC itself.

Good luck.

 

[CanadaPR90]

Thanks. Above link I am aware but this link don't give difference of 50 points (As mentioned in this thread above) when someone scores max points.....so I was looking for the specific link where it shows bonus 50 points with max score

 

[anoop10x]

Thanks. Above link I am aware but this link don't give difference of 50 points (As mentioned in this thread above) when someone scores max points.....so I was looking for the specific link where it shows bonus 50 points with max score

Your score in the language test also contributes to Skills Transferability, wherein you can get into 50 points each for Work and Education.

 

[hamgha]

Thanks. Above link I am aware but this link don't give difference of 50 points (As mentioned in this thread above) when someone scores max points.....so I was looking for the specific link where it shows bonus 50 points with max score

it does, there are extra points for adaptability besides the language score

 

[Ripitoff]

Dear All - Can you please advise me if I would get any points for DELF B2 in express entry. I cleared B2 exam not long ago and I am wondering if i really have to take TEF?