Choose your French exam, then prepare with a plan
Start by checking which exam and version your goal requires. Compare formats and scoring, then practise the tasks for your chosen level. Use the study plans flexibly and confirm registration details with your exam centre.
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Know your exam. Give your practice a purpose.
First establish which certificate you need, then focus on the tasks it actually tests. This collection includes an exam comparison, preparation guides for DELF A1 and B1, and advice for approaching a DELF exam day.
A useful way to begin
Choose the guide for your exam; A1 and B1 are alternatives, not a compulsory sequence. Use the task formats to plan practice and confirm current requirements with your exam centre.
Choose the right exam
Confirm the exact certificate or test required by the receiving institution.
Try it yourself
The comparison informs your choice; it does not set institutional requirements.
Confirm the exact exam required by your receiving institution.
Practise your exam speaking task.
Look for a tutor who offers preparation for your specific exam. Share the task format and ask for a timed speaking rehearsal.
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Prepare your chosen exam
List paper formats and plan practice for each tested skill.
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Try it yourself
DELF A1 and DELF B1 are alternative named certifications, never a sequential pair. The inventory has no complete TCF/DALF preparation route: do not invent or promise one.
Choose your exam guide and schedule practice for its papers.
Rehearse exam day
Prepare a checklist and rehearse timing for the relevant DELF papers.
Try it yourself
This guide is DELF-specific; do not present it as an equivalent TCF procedure.
Make a personal DELF exam-day checklist.
Give one idea a little practice.
You do not need a long reading list for today. Choose one guide and leave with something you can actually use.
Notice the pattern
Read the examples before trying to memorise a rule. In the Foundations lessons, use the French audio to connect the written phrase with its sound.
Try it for yourself
Use the exercises or linked practice where available. Look at why an answer works, then make a new sentence about your own life.
Meet it again
Listen for the pattern in a conversation or a short text. Return to the lesson when you need a reminder, then choose your next useful topic.
Make this the French you actually use.
You have explored the lessons. Now put the language to work. Practise the mistakes that hold you back, then take your French into a real conversation.
Practise your exam speaking task.
Look for a tutor who offers preparation for your specific exam. Share the task format and ask for a timed speaking rehearsal.
Choose a tutor, compare lesson prices and book a conversation with a clear goal. Bring one point from your reading, try it aloud and leave with something specific to practise next.
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