What CEFR level am I?
The CEFR describes what you can do with a language, not what you know about it. So this asks about tasks — ordering a coffee, arguing a point, following a film — rather than about tenses. Tick what is reliable and the estimate follows.
Tick only what you can do reliably, without rehearsing it first. The estimate updates as you go and nothing is sent anywhere.
Estimated level
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Nothing ticked yet
Tick what you can do reliably and the estimate appears here.
This is a self-check, not a test. It reports what you say you can do, and learners routinely read at one level and speak at another — a real placement is a conversation where someone escalates until it breaks.
Why it asks about tasks and not grammar
Every CEFR descriptor is a can-do statement. Nowhere does the framework say how many words a B1 knows or which tenses a B2 has met, and that is deliberate — it was built to compare learners across different languages and teaching traditions, where the grammar syllabuses do not line up at all.
The practical consequence is that meeting a form and being able to use it are different milestones. A learner can be taught the conditional in their third month and still be A2, because using it under time pressure in an unrehearsed conversation is a different skill from recognising it in an exercise. When a course advertises “B1 grammar”, it is describing a syllabus, not a level.
Reading and speaking are usually a level apart
Most learners are a jagged profile rather than a point on a line: comfortable reading at B2 while speaking at B1, or the reverse if they learned by ear. Averaging the two into one label throws away exactly the information that decides what to work on next.
If the check above felt like two different answers depending on the statement, that is the profile showing, and it is worth writing down as two numbers rather than one.
Where the plateau is
B1 to B2 takes longer than everything before it, and it is where most serious learners stall. The lower levels have a finite, listable content — a set of survival situations you can be walked through — so progress feels fast. B2 asks you to handle whatever comes up, which has no list, so the same weekly effort produces far less visible movement.
Knowing that in advance is most of the cure. The full version of this argument, and what each of the six levels means in practice, is in what the CEFR levels actually mean.
Teaching, rather than taking, the level check?
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