TEF Compréhension Écrite

The Compréhension Écrite section measures your ability to understand written French texts, such as emails, articles, advertisements, and informational documents.
You are evaluated on vocabulary recognition, grammatical understanding, and your ability to extract both general meaning and specific information.

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What You will Find in This TEF Guide:

1. Summary of this Test
2. TEF Orale expression practices and tests
3. How long does it take you to prepare and to pass the test?
4. Explore another section of the TEF
5. TEF Tips and Strategies

 

How can you succeed in the Reading comprehension test?

To succeed in this test, it is necessary to regularly read all types of texts (newspaper articles, excerpts from novels, classified ads, cooking recipes, etc.) on a variety of topics. This will allow you to read quickly, to locate important information and to enrich your vocabulary. All of this will help you reinforce what you have learned and give you confidence on the day of the test. Also we suggest you to:
1. Read the whole document
2. Read all answer options before answering
3. Reread your answers before validating the test

1. Summary of this Test:

Here is a summary about this part of the TEF test and links with exercises you can prepare to get good points:

• 4 sections
• 50 questions in a multiple choice questionnaire
• 1 hour (60  minutes)
• Objective: to assess your ability to read and understand written documents.

A Section

B Section

C Section

D Section

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Section A: basic documents

10 Questions in basic documents

Goal: Identify a document. You will have to recognize:

(a) the type of document

(b) the function of the document and

(c) the origin of the document

 

Section A Examples

1. Example Test 1
2. Example Test 2
3. Example Test 3
4. Example Test 4

Section B

25 Questions  Goal: Understand in detail press articles. You will have to determine (a) the author’s intentions (b) arguments made (c) allusions (d) style and register of language used

Section B Examples

1. Example Test 1
2. Example Test 2
3. Example Test 3
4. Example Test 4

Section C

10 Questions  Understanding the logic and organization of a document 

Section C Examples

1. Example Test 1
2. Example Test 2
3. Example Test 3
4. Example Test 4

Section D

5 Questions  Understand the general meaning of a sentence and various ways of phrasing it 

Section D Examples

1. Example Test 1
2. Example Test 2
3. Example Test 3
4. Example Test 4

Full written Comprehension tests here (60 min.):

 

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2. TEF Compréhension Écrite Practices and Tests

3. How long does it take you to prepare and to pass the test?

It depends from where you are starting and how many hours you are planning to study per week and also what do you want to achieve. (CLB 5, CLB 7)

Here some escenarios for CLB 5:

Escenario A: If you are starting from 0 and you are planning to study 10-12 hrs a week you will need about 8 to 10 months.

Escenario B: You are also starting from scratch but you can  study more time  15-20 hrs a week, It will take less time .That is around 5 to 7 months.

Escenario C: If you have some knowledge of French ( let’s say DELF A1 level or NCLC level 3) You will need between 3 to 5 months to Achieve CLB 5. ( If you study 15-20 hrs a week)

4. Explore another section of the TEF:

5. TEF Tips and Strategies

TEF Tips and Strategies

 

Learn more about this test from Le français des affaires:

 

You can also prepare for DELF and TCF here:

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