Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4658 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian
| Message 25 of 28 31 January 2014 at 12:16pm | IP Logged |
I just discovered this, and took the Russian test. I got B2, which is way above my actual level, I am rather A2 at least in active skills.
In the French test I got 37 out of 40, but I still cannot figure out where I made the mistakes.
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dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4684 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese
| Message 26 of 28 31 January 2014 at 1:33pm | IP Logged |
It gave me "Upper Intermediate (B2)" when I scored 32 for Japanese.
I think I might scrape a B1 for reading. The test seemed to be pretty simple stuff with
no complicated grammar or nasty surprises. (Maybe the JLPT has left me with a warped idea
of difficulty levels :-))
As they're obviously selling language-related products, I'd've thought they'd want to
grade you downwards rather than upwards. Or maybe they don't care and they're just
collecting email addresses?
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luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7224 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French
| Message 27 of 28 31 January 2014 at 6:19pm | IP Logged |
Elexi wrote:
if one worked through a few Practice Makes Perfect books you could answer those 40 grammar questions with ease but not have enough vocabulary to get past B1 in a CEFR exam. |
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Don't the French Practice Makes Perfect books include a lot of vocabulary? Or is the vocabulary covered infrequently used words, and therefore not so helpful?
I got a B1 by the way. Grammar has definitely not been my focus.
Edited by luke on 31 January 2014 at 6:20pm
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Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5584 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin
| Message 28 of 28 31 January 2014 at 7:35pm | IP Logged |
Yes - the PMP series contains a good block of frequently used words per unit - so in
that sense I am talking rubbish....
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