The Test de Connaissance du Français (TCF), designed by France Education International and accredited by the French Ministry of Education, is a French language proficiency test for non-native speakers of French who wish to evaluate and have their level of proficiency certified for professional, academic or personal reasons.

In general, the TCF grades and ranks candidates at one of the six levels (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 or C2) on a scale defined by the Council of Europe (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). TCF grade results are reliable measurements for determining proficiency.

Each candidate is provided with a certificate stating their test results within two months of the test date, and is valid for 2 years.

Please consider the time period necessary to receive the certificate (around 2 months) if you want to apply for a school or immigration process.

Once received in our premises, we will send you a notification to come pick up your official test results, upon presentation of an official ID.  Documents are only kept one calendar month.

You will not have access to your results before receiving the paper cetificate. 

If you will not be able to come pick it up, we offer a shipping service at $25. We can only send the official documents via certified mail. Please pay for shipping at the time of exam registration if you would like this service.

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All notifications are sent via email 1 week prior to the exam to the email you used to register. It is not possible to change the day or time of your examination. 

If you arrive after the arrival time on your notification, you will not be granted access to the exam and your registration will be forfeited. 

Your certification is valid for two years.

To help prepare, you can take classes, workshops, or watch and read French Media:
- TV5 Monde 
- RFI 
- Recommendations from France Education International

Yes! We have group classes that can help you build you French skills before taking the exam. The first step would be to take our free placement text to get a better idea of your current level. Then, depending on your level, and your calendar you can also take private classes if you need to learn faster. 

If you want to specifically train for the exam format, you can check out our Exam Prep workshops, or our Exam prep private class packages. 

Yes. 

Going forward, the TCF exam will be in a digital version and will be taken on a computer.

The computer will have an English QWERTY keyboard. You will be able to type in accents using the TCF software.

The TCF exam is in person. Our site is located at 1345 Bush Street in San Francisco. To find other testing sites, please refer to France Education International's Website. 

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