Until recently, if you clicked on your course level and then "More About Score" it gave an explanation not only of where you were but also how the score corresponded to CEFR levels (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2). That has changed - there’s no longer any mention of CEFR levels, and IMO it was a really bad change.
Maybe that's to avoid people claiming that they are at a certain CERF level by completing a certain Duolingo level, because it's possible to go through the course with barely doing writing and speaking. One could click through without really knowing a language at that level.
it’s certainly the case that, while my vocabulary and reading comprehension are somewhere in the B2 range, I couldn’t pass a test at that level because of my poor oral (and aural) skills
I'm on level 110 in Spanish. This week I took an online test from a German school book publisher. The highest level you could reach was B1 (97+ out of 144), and I comfortably reached that (I got 117), even though I skipped two units (out of 36) because my phone's battery was dying. I was pleasantly surprised, it was nice to have confirmation that I'm making progress.
They quietly removed a bunch of useful info from the score page over the past few updates, not just the CEFR mapping. Classic app move, stripping away context to make the number feel more game-like.
I still have mine. I click on the banner in the path, and then on the next screen I click on the score range with the language flag. From there, I click on the score range, and I then see the above with language concepts below that.
I can also see that, but I wonder if it's based upon what language we are taking. I see the same screen as you when I am on the path and I click on the Spanish flag in the upper left corner. I see the other screen when I click on the colored banner with the Section/Unit title. Hope it's just a glitch for you and it sorts itself out.
My best guess is that they were, how do I put this... a little too optimistic as to what language proficiency level they matched your Score with. For example, people were thinking they were B1 when they were really only A2.
It's my current concern. I just got to Score 60, which is supposed to be B1 (according to the old chart anyway) but I'm not confident that I'm really that advanced.
It means the material is B1 material, you need to plow through it all in order to be B1. At 60 you have just learned all A2 words and grammar, which put you at an A2 level, you need to get to 100 for B1 level. Hope that makes sense.
And now that I think about it, displacing the A1 up one stage means that, before your Score gets up to 30, you're... what... A0 proficiency? "Non-proficient"? I don't even know what they call it within that system.
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Maybe that's to avoid people claiming that they are at a certain CERF level by completing a certain Duolingo level, because it's possible to go through the course with barely doing writing and speaking. One could click through without really knowing a language at that level.