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The TCF is a standardised and graded test designed using an extremely rigorous method that makes it a genuine measuring instrument. It took almost 3 years to create this quality tool, whose results are consistent – i.e. reliable and comparable – regardless of the examination session for which the candidate registers. The TCF is a standardised, graded and calibrated test. Every question asked during an examination session has been pre-tested and subjected to precise psychometric analyses, guaranteeing that results are comparable, session after session, on the Council of Europe’s reference scale, which has six levels of competency. The whole test creation process was monitored and approved by a high-level scientific committee composed of 25 linguists, grammarians and lexicologists and chaired by Mr Bernard Cerquiglini, delegate general for the French language. The results reliably position candidates at one of the six levels of the Council of Europe’s scale. The TCF was developed on beha
