Hello everybody!
Hope you are enjoying your weekend. I'm really interested in Ontario French Speaking Provincial nomination program, and for this reason I did take my TEF Canada some time ago, but sadly I got CLB6 in Reading section by missing 17 points
. But with my bad handwriting I wrote my 1st task almost 160 words (80 words minimum) and second one was 320 words (200 words minimum), now I understood I didn't respect the word limiting. However I could have reached CLB 8 but missed by 2 points for overwriting and awful handwriting, so the result was CLB7. Listening part was good too, I got CLB7 but those 3 long conversations were difficult a little bit. My speaking was almost fluent, I got CLB9 and it was so easy to me, if I try a little bit more, I can get CLB 10.
So my full results with some preparation were:
- Listening : 261 (CLB7
) = did only 2 tests as preparation;
- Reading : 190 (CLB6
) = learnt just some new words; (during test I got very hard long texts)
- Writing : 347 (CLB7
) = wrote 2 for task A and 2 for task B;
- Speaking : 378 (CLB9
) = did not train at all.
This was my story, and now I want to retake this test in November (I'll book it next week may be), I believe I didn't deserve that CLB6, because my French is good enough to get CLB7 in all 4 sections.
I see here, there are a lot of experienced people got their CLB7 in TEF, and I would like to ask some help from you all: Could you please share your preparation methods or any technical tips with me? I would be pleased if anyone can send me some useful links, books (online or name so I can buy or get from the library) or any other sources. I got some information from the following book:
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Objectif réussite : TEF - Test d'évaluation de français, 2001;
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TEF 250 activités, 2006.
Apart from those 2 books, I couldn't find any other books directly related to TEF test.
Many thanks in advance for your help and wish you all the best and good luck in your nomination process. Hope to meet you all in Toronto, ON.