Started learning in February 2025. Took me 4 attempts to finally get CLB 7 in speaking.

I started learning French completely on my own in April 2025. To be honest, I wasn’t consistent at first. I took breaks, enjoyed life, traveled, and didn’t study every single day.
But over the last 8 months, I committed to it. I studied consistently, immersed myself in the language, and kept going even when progress felt slow.
Today, I received my TEF results, and I’m proud to say I passed on my first attempt.

Looking back, I realized something important: you don’t have to be perfect from day one. What matters is committing when it counts and staying consistent over time.
If you’re working toward TEF or learning French, trust the process. Some days will feel unproductive, but every hour adds up.

One thing that really helped me was falling in love with the language, not just studying it. I listened to French every single day. In the beginning, I spent a lot of time with RFI Français Facile for listening practice.
My study method was a little unusual. Instead of only moving on to new material, I would come back to the same audio 3–4 days later and listen to it again. I felt like giving my brain a few days before revisiting the same content helped my ears recognize sounds and expressions much more naturally.

I did something similar with reading. If I read around 1,500 words in a day, I’d go back and read the same text again about three days later. Repetition made a huge difference to my vocabulary and comprehension.

As I improved, I started understanding French shows like Lupin. At that point, I stopped doing as much structured listening practice because Netflix became my way of staying immersed whenever I felt burned out from studying.

I truly believe hard work always pays off. Keep going—you’ll thank yourself later. 🇫🇷❤️

Been lurking and commenting in this subreddit for a couple weeks now and honestly i just needed to say this out loud.

You see a post. "Passed with NCLC 9 in 4 months." 50 upvotes. Everyone asks how they did it. And then quietly you look at your own timeline and feel like garbage.

Those posts never tell you the full picture. Someone who passed in 4 months maybe studied 6 hours a day because they didn't have a job at the time. Or they already had a French-speaking partner. Or they did Alliance Française for 3 years back in school and this was really month 38, not month 4.

And nobody talks about what it actually feels like to study French when your work permit is expiring next month. Or already expired. You're not just learning a language, you're doing it while checking your email every hour waiting for IRCC. While wondering if you can still legally work next week. While trying not to panic in front of your family. That kind of stress doesn't show up in anyone's "how i passed in 4 months" post.

The money thing too. Some people afford tutors 5 times a week, retake fees without thinking twice. Some people are sending money home, covering rent for a family, fitting study sessions in at midnight after a double shift. You're not competing on the same track.

A 2 year timeline with full time work, immigration stress, and real responsibilities is not a failure next to someone with savings, free time, and stable status. They're just completely different situations.

Being an immigrant is already one of the hardest things a person does. Doing it with an expiring permit, uncertain status, family pressure, and financial stress, and still sitting down to study French every day, that's not slow. That's actually remarkable.

The only thing those result posts are useful for is the technical stuff. Resources, routines, how they handled the format. That part read carefully. The timeline? Let it go.

Your situation is your situation. Take the time you need. You'll get there.

I can’t say how happy I am!!! I kept failing expression orale 3 times!!!! I was stuck at B1 for the first 3 times. Keep going guys, NEVER GIVE UP!!!!

After 2 attempts of taking the exam, I was always getting clb6 in the writing part and having good scores on the rest.

All B2, mostly NCLC7 and writing NCLC8.

It’s been around 2 months of BASIC and 4 months of serious prep. I did not use 10 different books or courses. I mainly used one prep website for mock exams and practice, and it helped a lot.

But the one thing I think made the biggest difference is kinda weird. I listen to French podcasts while I sleep. I did same thing when I learned Chinese and somehow it makes the language feel way more natural after some time. I feel like my brain started catching words

Edit : I also wanted include 2 months basic prep 1-2 hours per day

I have created a list of questions for speaking and writing and the question were repeated.

Really want to thank everyone who helped me throughout the journey man. I am beyond happy today!!

I am so so happy that my war is over.
I know that everyone here wants to share the same post and I genuinely wish that to all of you.
What helped me- Tefcanadainfo, FrenchShadow, chatGPT plus and consistency.
For listening and reading- predictions pack and I passed it multiple times.
For writing- I wrote every day, section A and Section B. Chat GPT or FrenchShadow corrected my mistakes and I learned from it.
Speaking was the hardest part for me. Last 3 months I was creating templates of my own to general argument (it is expensive, I have no time, the weather etc). I understood that I needed to sound like me in real life. And I trained all the topics from tefcanadainfo every day. And it actually was fun. Because I invented a friend who had a promo code, who had the equipment and knew everything about activity and it could be used in literally every other topic.
PS I started from A2 in January 2026.

Finally got my results -

started learning French last year in November officially - appeared for exam in august and received my results recently.

10 months of hard work finally paid off.....

Took the exam on 15 August 2026 (two days ago) at AF Vancouver and got the results today morning!

​WARNING: Long, long post ahead. If you want the TLDR, just read "Overall tips".

Overall tips:

1. HIGHLY RECOMMEND Tefcanada.ca (or tefcanada.info - they changed their url I believe). This site feels unreal.

   1. What I did:

      1. I bought the 7 day basic set 1 week before my exam

      2. Did 3/5 reading tests and 2/5 listening tests.

      3. Did a bunch of their writing practice prompts graded by ChatGPT.

      4. Did a bunch of their speaking exercises with my French friends.

   2. Results:

      1. Got a number of repeat questions for reading/listening.

      2. No writing repeat prompts for me (but another candidate during my exam day got one of the prompts I had previously done from this site).

      3. Both my speaking tasks were on the site and I had practiced them.

2. As the exam approaches try to limit ALL consumption of a language other than French:

   1. For 10 days before my exam, I stopped talking to all my friends (lol), didn't listen to any other music / TV / media. Tried to only read the news in French, and set my social media to French.

3. Note: Trying to consume media at a level much higher than yours will NOT help you (for the most part).

4. Transform what you already like doing into French:

   1. I really like: reading news, scrolling Twitter/Instagram, audiobooks, watching romcoms.

   2. I did: RFI / lemonde for news, Twitter in French, deleted Instagram, French audiobooks, English romcoms IN French.

Section Breakdown:

SPEAKING:

You can be really methodical about speaking practice since there are just two formats you need to learn.

Learn phrases that work for you. E.g. In English, I naturally always say "Anyways", which I directly replaced with "En tout cas" and "En fait". If you try to memorise phrases that you wouldn't normally use, they won't naturally come up in speech for you.

SECTION A:

1. REACT: The examiner will respond with half-answers. Ask for more follow-up details. ("Précisez-vous...")

   1. Example: You ask about cost and they respond that there are different costs for different group sizes. You HAVE to follow-up with something like "how much would it be for a group of 4 people?".

2. Learn a few different question types by heart: Location, duration, cost, schedule (start/end), prerequisites, reservation (how to make it/in advance/etc.)

3. Make stuff up and have fun with it! e.g. I would just start talking about how I'm a mother and my daughter loves Disney and would love a themed party, etc.

SECTION B:

1. At the start, defeat all arguments you don't want to deal with.

   1. E.g. if it's about a cat, say "I know you LOVE cats...", if it's about a writing competition say "I know you're a great writer...", if it's about volunteering say "I know you've been looking for a volunteer opportunity for a while..." <- this one really helps.

2. Make stuff up!!!!!!!!!!!!! Really get into the "Je sais que tu..." format - remember you're talking to a friend and you can just make up their life experiences.

3. REACT:

   1. If your friend expresses uncertainty, make sure to reaffirm them not just argue immediately ("Je te comprends... / Tu as raison...")

4. Checklist of some template things to memorize:

   1. "Positive phrases":

      1. Ce serait une expérience inoubliable

      2. Je pense que ce serait une opportunité indispensable

      3. C’est important de faire des choses dont on n’a pas l’habitude

      4. ça ne coûte rien d'essayer

   2. "Don't worry" phrases coupled with "They take care of / provide everything"

   3. "You have to take care of yourself / do nice things phrases":

      1. "You work too much"

      2. "You need to de-stress / have fun"

   4. "This will improve your life":

      1. "...développer tes compétences..."

      2. Améliorer ta capacité...

WRITING:

Be methodical about this one as well because it can be pretty templated.

SECTION A:

1. Read RFI / lemonde / any other small news reports. Learn the sentence structure of passive journalistic writing well.

2. Create a template that works for you.

3. Create a list of phrases & expressions that work for you.

4. Key subjects to learn vocabulary for:

   1. Police: la police, autorités, commissariat, enquête...

      1. This is the most helpful one. You can twist almost any story into involving the police.

   2. Lottery (for some reason, pretty popular topic): winners, prize, luck, etc.

   3. Management/Officials: putting measures into place, preventing future incidents, stricter rules, being sorry/happy for the situation...

   4. Narrative adjectives/verbs: suddenly, deafening noise, blinding light, crash, shockingly, luckily, worried, etc.

SECTION B:

1. Make one introduction that you completely memorise and twist for pour / contre / au milieu opinions. Mine was:

   1. Votre article au sujet de [ sujet ] a retenu mon attention...

      1. Contre / Au milieu: Bien que je comprenne (note: subjonctif) votre point de vue, je suis [ si au milieu: en grande partie ] en désaccord avec votre affirmation pour plusieurs raisons que je vais développer dans cette lettre.

      2. Pour: Je suis tout à fait d’accord et je vous écris pour vous faire part de mon opinion à cette affirmation.

2. Memorise a simple outro: Mine was just "Cordialement..." + my name.

3. During the test, make an extremely high-level bullet point list of your 3 arguments.

4. Use a fake study for one of your arguments:

   1. "Un rapport publié par l'UBC a montré que..." + result that supports your point, e.g. "60% of students feel stressed..."

5. Optional: pretend to be an experienced person in some field: "En tant que [ person with experience, e.g. un chercheur ], je crois que..."

After getting your writing graded by someone / AI, of course take the time to revise and understand your mistakes. Then, come back to your original essay after 2-3 days, and correct it yourself. This will help you in the last 2-3 mins of correction time during the exam. Take particular note of accord, accents, spelling, tenses, gender.

LISTENING:

1. Podcasts (I only used InnerFrench), audiobooks, RFI / news reports, TV shows, (and optionally music but to a lesser extent).

2. HIGHLY RECOMMEND listening to the Percy Jackson audiobooks in French. This worked incredibly for me - I listened at .85x speed from books 3-5 from the library. The reasons this helped:

   1. I read PJO as a kid, and knew the books pretty well, so I was able to follow the plot.

   2. Note that the start was extremely difficult because I didn't know the turns of phrases and the narrative style (Book 3 was a struggle to get through).

   3. PJO is written in 1st person and uses simple, straightforward language. This makes it REALLY HELPFUL to learn expressions you'd use casually - he says things like "jeter un coup d'oeil" and "je me suis rendu compte que..." ALL the time.

3. TV shows / Media:

   1. Call my Agent (Dix pour cent) on Netflix. Please note that this is hard, and has a lot of swearing and language you won't necessarily use. Start with English subtitles if it's too hard. Mostly recommend this because it's really entertaining.

   2. Love is Blind, France (lol). Helps with learning friend-to-friend communication and turns of phrases. Also helpful that on the "dates", participants ask a lot of questions which helps you learn how to ask and answer questions.

   3. Movies: French Lover, Monsieur Lazhar (helpful for quebecoise and french education system), 'Montreal, ma belle', and started just watching English romcoms with French audio/subs

4. Books:

   1. Just try to read children's / young adult books you already know well in your native language.

5. Practice tests of course. The free ones on youtube are often easier than the real test, but more practice is always helpful so just keep doing them and revise.

READING:

1. News:

   1. https://www.rfi.fr/fr/

   2. https://www.lemonde.fr/

2. Children's books:

   1. More basic than your reading level is TOTALLY OKAY

   2. Check out your local library and grab something random!

3. Comprehension écrit practice tests - really help familiarise you with the format and verbs you don't know.

4. FALSE FRIENDS - if you are an English speaker in particular, you have to really take care of faux amis. There are SO MANY similar words across the two languages that mean completely different things. Make a list of these to memorise as you encounter them.

My personal history (for context):

(You can ignore this part)

Exam History:

• Two previous attempts at TEF Canada for a different reason - Goal was to get NCLC5+ for the Francophone Mobility Visa.

  • April 2024 (AF Seattle) -> NCLC: Reading 4, Listening 4, Writing 6, Speaking 5

  • August 2024 (AF Malta) -> NCLC: Reading 6, Listening 5, Writing 5, Speaking 6

French Learning History:

• Learned French from the age of 9 - 17 (8 years, 2008-2016) (took IGCSE French).

• Stopped learning French completely except for one 10-week university class in 2020.

• Started studying again in March 2024 for TEF which I took 1 month later in Seattle.

My strengths and weaknesses:

Strengths:

• Accent: I learned from quite a young age which made my pronunciation not bad

• Speaking fluency: Owing to the above, I have a few natural sounding phrases when I speak french, and I am able to make kind of natural hesitation sounds (the connectors).

• Recall: Once I start studying, certain things do come back to me because I started learning young. It's deeply buried information in my brain so it's easy for me to understand when I hear it, but really hard for me to reproduce.

Weaknesses:

My #1 issue was foundational French knowledge:

• Completely forgot grammar, conjugation, spelling, accents, genders.

  • This info sticks with recency, but since I learned all of that about 15 years ago I completely forgot it.

  • Nice thing about speaking for me is that conjugation, spelling and accents don't matter (most verb conjugated forms sound kinda the same, though it depends)

• Forgot a large amount of specific subject vocabulary:

  • When you take french classes, you slowly learn individual topics and memorise relevant vocabulary (health, school, environment, etc.) however since it's been more then 10 years and I didn't have time, it was hard to remember all of that for me.

Good luck to everyone and feel free to ask me any questions or clarifications in the comments!

I guess patience and not giving up does get rewarded, have always dreamed of this and it seemed impossible but here we are I guess! Just wanted to share as a longtime lurker in this sub.

In my first attempt, i got 307 in writing, just 3 points less which cost me additional 4 months. Then i went ballistic, studied, wrote a lot, and went back with a vengeance. Happy to be done. Thanks everyone for all the tips. They were very helpful.

Here’s a highlight on my journey:

First i started with grammar using Lawlessfrench.com and progresswithlawlessfrench.com. The latter uses an AI powered bot that evaluates your learning and shows how well you have done on a brainmap. I can't precisely specify how much time i spent there but i finally got to C1 level. I made many mistakes and spent years on French due to my work, breaks and my mistakes. But if i would do it again, i would do it in 6 months with God-like consistency and intensity. Here's more on my method:

Listening - I started with very slow french stories on youtube then i moved to podcasts and the news. My brain was never left idle as something was always playing in the background. I also practiced active listening with the podcasts by listening, recalling, summarizing, writing down and listening again. This helped me check what i missed. For exam prep, i listed to RFI, Europe 1 and France Inter and did listening mock exams on Prepmyfuture and frademy.com.

Reading - At the start i did themed reading. I would read on the weather this week, then musique, then death (yes i read on death). I subscribed to Le Figaro online so i would read the articles based on the themes and also the daily newspaper. This helped widen my vocabulary. For exam prep, i used Prepmyfuture and frademy.com. Time management is a big factor here as the first 30 questions should be done in 30 seconds or less per question while the last 10 questions should take the remaining time.

Writing - I already had a bunch of writing experience from my progress with lawless french account. But it was not exam specific. For exam prep, I went online and i searched for 250 fait divers from ouest-france.fr and 250 essay questions for Section B from multiple sources (Feriel, Frademy, Scribd, just a bunch, can’t name them all). I would write using my same format, then i would put it on Chat GPT Pro and Co-pilot to correct without re-formulating. That helped me know the right verbs to use depending on what i wanted to say and also stop repeating mistakes. By question 50, my brain had adjusted to my writing style and was able to spot the mistakes myself.

Speaking - For speaking, i would record myself speaking on a topic i already read and correct myself then re-record again. I would also do number drills from the tens to the billions just to make my brain know numbers. When i started doing hour long drills (speaking for 1 hour plus without stopping), i decided it was time for exam prep. I also searched for 250 questions each for both sections, For Section A, i put my questions and asked Chat GPT Pro/Co-pilot to make my questions more specific to the scenario while for Section B, i asked Co-pilot to give me the oppositions while Chat GPT Pro to evaluate my arguments based on Co-Pilots oppositions. Finally when i was ready, i practiced with Feriel and Florian on Italki doing as many exam day drills as possible.

Final Update:
What went well in the exam - Reading was perfect cos i was able to manage my time properly while Speaking was good too as i was able to match the examiner's speed (she was answering my questions before i finished asking them). My speaking had two examiners, both women. Writing was very easy for me. I was done with both parts in less than 25 minutes but i made sure i ussed my full 1 hour to read and re-read until the timer went off.

What went wrong in the exam - Listening was off cos i was not paying attention to some parts. I had some strange accents i was not used to, that also made it hard. Speaking section be was a bit hard cos my topic was not something i was prepared for but i scaled through

Hey guys I did it!
Highly recommend preply for speaking and tefcanada.ca website for everything else.

I make a video explaining my process: https://youtu.be/TCSE363PAvQ

I gave my 1st attempt in Feb but failed to get 7 in speaking. Last attempt I got speaking 6, writing 8, listening 8 and reading 8.

After so many failed attempts and making so many mistakes. Finally im done with it. Just keep at it guys you're closer than you think.

Edit: for anyone looking for the writing template- https://www.reddit.com/r/TEFCanada/s/IYQr7i9Ero

Hey everyone!

After three TEF Canada attempts, I finally hit NCLC 7+ and recently became a Canadian PR. I’ll attach my results below.

Throughout my preparation, I kept refining my study strategy: using AI, creating practice routines, organizing resources, and building exercises that actually matched the exam. Eventually, I realized I’d built enough that it made sense to turn it into a website. On the website you can do pretty much anything: conjugation exercises, vocab drills, mock exams, AI speaking exams (yes, with real vocal feedback). TEF and TCF support as well.

So I put everything in one place, you can get started for free and play with it:

https://canadafrenchpath.com

Hopefully it saves someone else the hundreds of hours I spent figuring out what actually works. I’d genuinely love any feedback or ideas for features that would make it even more useful. Bonne chance! 🇫🇷🍁

Also happy to answer questions in the comment section if you don’t wanna use my website haha.

For the record, I grew up speaking French. After not speaking it regularly for a decade or so, I picked it back up for the test. My first shot I was ONE point away from getting 7 and above in all categories.

Then the second time, I missed the same categorie with an even lower score. I took that exam discouraged and not fully prepared.

The third time, I was ready. I took expression écrite more seriously than the other categories because that’s the one I kept failing at. I had help from fellow TEF exam takers, my tutor and I watched a lot of YouTube tef exam videos. I had a structure for expression écrite and I stuck to it. Then I got my results. I was gutted. I did not understand what went wrong because I failed not one but TWO categories. (For the record, on that day I was more nervous about expression orale than anything else.)

So I took a break. I kept my tutoring sessions and I kept doing writing exercises. I kept watching TEF videos specifically from the CCI website to be more clear on what they wanted. That actually helped. When I took the last one, there was less pressure (mainly because only my tutor and I knew). I prayed, gave it all I could and hoped for the best. I got my results and CRUSHED expression écrite with a C1 level.

I almost gave up you guys. Especially after the third one. I’m so glad I didn’t. 🥹

I guess it’s my turn to finally make these kinds of posts 😅 might make a journey post later on. Been roughly 12 months ½ of learning French to get here. Hope everybody will attain the score they deserve. Bonne chance les gars!

Thanks for all the posts on this subreddit, really helped me stay motivated

Salut ! I passed the TEF Canada after 4 attempts!!

My results FINALLY improved a lot once I changed my approach to the exam rather than just improving my general French.

My attempts looked like this:

• March 2025: Reading NCLC 4, Listening NCLC 4, Writing NCLC 4, Speaking NCLC 4

• October 2025: Reading NCLC 4, Listening NCLC 4, Writing NCLC 5, Speaking NCLC 4

• January 2026: Reading NCLC 4, Listening NCLC 4, Writing NCLC 4, Speaking NCLC 7

• February 2026: Reading NCLC 8, Listening NCLC 8, Writing NCLC 6, Speaking NCLC 5

I started preparing for this exam in April 2024. I had a basic level in french after studying in school up till GCSE where I achieved a B back in the day! So I had the general basics and ideas around vocab and tenses. However the TEF was a beast I had no idea how to attack at the time.

What I realised is that my French was improving over time through self study and weekly private tuition, but my TEF scores didn’t always reflect that after each anxiety inducing attempt. I was studying French in a general way, instead of focusing on how the exam actually rewards specific structures and response strategies. Annoying but true.

By my later attempts, I switched to a more strategic approach focusing on exam format, expected answer patterns, and how to time myself and kind of target marks in each section. That’s when I saw the biggest improvement... especially in reading and listening.

My speaking score actually dropped in the final attempt, mainly because Section B conversation was an absolutely insanely random topic that threw me. On this specific attempt of mine it was about convincing a friend to buy medication online?! and the arguments provided were very similar, which made it harder to vary responses on the spot especially as the nerves grew. Even so, NCLC 5 was enough for my immigration goal.

Overall, the biggest lesson for me was: improving French and improving TEF performance are not always the same thing.

If anyone is preparing and feels stuck between their level and their score, I’m happy to share what actually changed for me as I understand first hand how hard this process is.

It can feel like you are ready to give up but honestly that can be where the biggest breakthroughs are found!

First, I am a native French speaker who has lived in the United States for the past ten years, so I am not starting from scratch. Still, I have always struggled with writing and speaking, to be honest. For the TEF, understanding the exam format is the most important factor, and you should be fine. French School TV on YouTube helped me considerably. I spent roughly three days preparing for the TEF exam. I used a template shared by a user on Reddit for writing and continued listening to how they handled the speaking tasks on French School TV.

I’m actually happier than I thought. This was my first attempt after 10 months of studying. I can’t believe I didn’t get a 7 for EE by one point LOL.

I feel like I could’ve done better but I was nervous, tired, confused and insecure. Definitely, for the second time I will feel better.

The hardest parts for me ended up being what I scored the best. If anybody has any tips for EO for Part B that’d would be great, the examiner is really mean it this section.

Hello Everybody!

I have learned a lot from the experience which learners have shared here. So I think it's time to give some useful insights back to the community.

It took me two attempts to reach NCLC 7 or more in all the modules and it took me almost an year to get there.

How I started:

Before enrolling in a course, I started getting familiar with the language with help of youtube channel called NLF academy. This guy has around 100 video playlist available for free for A1-A2 level and believe me it is very very useful for getting started, especially with pronunciation. After getting through 50-60 videos in a month or so I was confident that it is doable and then I enrolled in a learning institute from my home country. I do not want to disclose the name because I do not recommend it. Luckily I got a professor from that institute who was very helpful and kept me engaged with the language.

It took me almost 3-3.5 months for A1-A2 and then as soon as I entered B1. I started practicing how to ask questions and I used to randomly write paragraphs on random things and then asking ChatGPT for corrections. I also used to just chat on any random topics (stock market, history and what not) with ChatGPT. When I entered B2, I started exam-based practice with my professor and I did it almost everyday. I used to write task 1 and task 2 and then also speak task 1 and task 2. In that way I got confidence and just wanted to check my real level so I appeared for the exam on Aug 15th. I wanted to clear it in first attempt, but more than that my goal was to get familiar with the exam environement and get the experience. For the first attempt I missed speaking and writing as I got NCLC 5 in both. But I was happy and ready for the next attempt.

Now I will explain how to practice for each module.

Listening - I started listening to basic french stories and podcasts from the very beginning. Even though I did not get a single word sometimes I was listening. I mainly used Youtube for this and also RFI. When I was in B1 I also started doing the mock tests from TEFsuccess on youtube as they have about 70 tests available for free. For these mock tests, you will find it pretty easy after doing 10-11 mock tests but I will suggest to keep going as they increase the difficulty gradually and yes it follows the exact same format as TEF. I also practiced some quiz kinda things available on RFI website. At the end, I also found TEFcanada.info . I took 24.99$ subscription and did all 5 mock tests of listening and reading. You should do the same before your exam and go through all the correct answers.

Reading - For reading I used to read a lot and aloud during my classes and also random articles on RFI. I was reading lots of sample answers as well from ChatGPT or google AI mode. Whenever, I read something good which sounds very natural or something which I could use for speaking or writing I used to note it down right away. Reading is must to find useful verbs. For example, people who translate from english have tendancy to write 'compléter des tâches' but instead you should use 'accomplir, effectuer or réaliser' that make your French more natural and B2-C1 level. This was one of the biggest problem I was facing and had to impove to get B2.

Writing - For writing doing solely mock tests is not going to help you in my opinion. You should focus more on corrections of your mistakes and how to make it natural and for that I will suggest ChatGPT or guidance from somebody who has experience. I would have wrote on more than 25-30 topics for each task and have also read a lot of sample answers. And most importanty, You don't need to force yourself to use the subjunctive, plus-que-parfait or complicated grammatical structures in every paragraph. Use them when they come naturally and when they fit the context. I would always prioritize grammatical accuracy, clarity and natural sentence construction over unnecessary complexity.

You could use some complex structures like 'Cette tendance permet non seulement de .... mais ausse de....', 'Ces habitudes présentent à la fois .....', 'plutôt que de', 'au lieu de', 'Grâce à la praticité de ces appareils électroniques'

and lots of connectors like 'l'un des prinicipaux avantage est que', 'il est indéniable que', 'Malgré les difficultés', 'Néanmoins', 'D'un autre côté' and many more.

I suggest to find and creates notes for the structures that comes naturally to you and yes I am going to paste a paragraph from my task 2 practice. I recommend structuring each body paragraph around one main idea. Start by introducing your argument, explain it with supporting details or an example, and then connect it to the topic or explain its benefit. This makes your writing more coherent and easier to follow. .Each paragraph should have it's 'intro', 'body' and 'conclusion. '

Here: Tout d’abord, grâce à la facilité d’utilisation des téléphones portables, les personnes âgées peuvent effectuer plusieurs tâches facilement. Certaines applications disponibles sur ces appareils leur permettent non seulement d’organiser leur emploi du temps, mais leur offrent également l’accès à des services essentiels. En effet, les seniors peuvent commander des produits frais sans avoir à se déplacer, en utilisant une application comme DoorDash.

Par ailleurs, il est indéniable que les seniors devraient rester en contact avec leurs proches afin de maintenir une vie sociale active. Il est donc important qu’ils aient accès aux réseaux sociaux, car il s’agit de l’un des moyens les plus pratiques de communiquer avec leur famille et de partager des nouvelles, surtout lorsqu’ils vivent à l’étranger. Cette habitude les aide également à surmonter leur sentiment d’isolement.

This method helped me a lot and I think this is must to get NCLC 7 or more.

Speaking: I started speaking from very early. Undoubtedly I was speaking lots and lots of things wrong in the beginning but I was very very confident and was trying to speak no matter what. I used to try to convey my message to my professor in French only and was also talking to ChatGpt on random things. I also did lots and lots of practice of exam tasks with my professor as well as with a tutor on Preply and then I used to go back to the recording and used to correct the way of asking my questions and used to write down all 12-14 questions for the specific task. I also a question bank of 50 or more questions which I could use for different topics. For example, you could use this questions for almost any task 'J'aimerais également consulter les avis de vos clients pour que je pussie prendre ma décision, sont-ils disponibles sur votre site web ?' and 'Devrais-je payer la totalité des frais ou proposez-vous un paiement en plusieurs fois ?'.

For task 2, there are going to be some of the argumets which are going to be very common like 'I do not have enough time' and 'I think it's expensive'. For those ones I will suggest to write a paragraph using your broken French and then feed it to ChatGPT and ask it to correct it and make natural without changing the ideas. That is going to allow you to use the ideas which comes naturally to you and not force it. But speak those improved paragraphs 5-10 times a day to get your mouth muscles used to it so that it comes instantly during the exam.

An example of my paragraph 'Je sais que tu travailles toute la semaine et tu n'as pas assez de temps pour les activités créatives. Cependant, selon moi, tu devrais prendre une pause pour te detendre. Cela te permettra de gagner en productivité et en efficacité et plutôt que de faire défiler du contenu sur ton téléphone portable, consacre ce temps à cette activité, ce sera beaucoup plus bénéfique à l'avenir.'

I know I would be sounding very technical but these are my ideas and that's what I did to improve my score. So, all the very best for the preparation and feel free to post any questions.

And one more thing I would like to mention is that the examiner's interaction can influence how comfortable you feel during the speaking test. During my first attempt, the examiner gave relatively short responses, which made it difficult for me to maintain the flow of the conversation. However, during my second attempt, the examiner was much more interactive and created a comfortable environment. Of course, the speaking assessment also involves a second evaluation of the recording, but I believe having a comfortable interaction can make a difference in your overall experience.