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This site is published by Augusto Grone. It publishes guides on the French exams — DELF, DALF, TCF, TEF — and on the language levels required for immigration and citizenship procedures. This page explains how that information is established, checked and corrected.
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Why this site exists
Searching for “what TCF score for NCLC 7” or “what level for French citizenship” returns a mix of consultants' blogs, dated forum threads and automatic summaries that are sometimes wrong. In July 2026 we saw results displayed at the top of search engines giving incorrect NCLC conversion ranges.
For a reader preparing an immigration or citizenship file, wrong information does not only cost time: it costs exam fees, months of delay, and sometimes a refusal. This site starts from there.
How we verify
Every article follows the same chain, and we keep to it even when it is slower.
- Primary-source collection. Official pages are opened and read, never summarised from a search-result snippet.
- Cross-checking. Every binding figure — threshold, marking scale, duration, score range — is confirmed on at least two official pages.
- Adversarial re-reading. The collected facts are then re-examined from three angles: conformity with the reference text, currency of the data (a repealed rule stays online for years), and the arithmetic consistency of tables — overlapping ranges or gaps signal a copying error.
- Rejection. A fact we cannot reopen at its source is not published “subject to confirmation”: it is dropped, and the article sends the reader explicitly to the official source.
This method has a visible effect: our articles contain sentences such as “we could not verify this point, confirm it on service-public.fr”. That is deliberate. An article that claims to know everything about immigration law is lying.
The sources we use
| Domain | Sources used |
|---|---|
| French immigration law | Légifrance, service-public.fr, Ministry of the Interior (DGEF) |
| DELF, DALF and TCF exams | France Éducation international |
| TEF and TEFAQ exams | Le français des affaires — CCI Paris Île-de-France |
| Canadian federal immigration | IRCC / canada.ca |
| Quebec immigration | MIFI / quebec.ca |
| Exam centres, dates and fees | France Éducation international's list of approved centres, then each centre's own website, on the date given at the foot of the page |
Lawyers' blogs, consultants' sites and aggregators can give us a lead on a topic. They are never the final source for a figure.
What we do not publish
- No “leaked” exam papers. TCF papers are strictly confidential. Sites selling “this month's predictions” distribute forgeries or documents obtained illegally — a needless risk for your file.
- No individual legal advice. We explain general rules. We do not take a position on your personal situation: that is for a lawyer or the competent administration.
- No promise of results. No method guarantees a score.
- No unsourced figure. If we cannot tie it to a dated official source, it is not in the article.
Our limits, stated plainly
This site is published independently. It is neither official nor affiliated with France Éducation international (DELF, DALF, TCF) or with Le français des affaires — CCI Paris Île-de-France (TEF). Exam names are cited only to describe the content covered.
The site is backed by a mobile exam-preparation app, which is its business model: some articles link to it. That changes nothing in the rule above — we explicitly recommend the free official resources when they meet the need, and we describe their limits without playing them down.
Finally, regulations change. An article that was accurate in July 2026 can stop being so. Every page carries its update date and points to the official source to consult before any binding step.
Report an error
If you find an inaccuracy, write to us: gockaman@gmail.com. If possible, name the page concerned and the official source that makes you think we are wrong. Substantive corrections are applied and the article's update date is changed accordingly.
It is the best service you can do us — and every reader after you.
Legal notice
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Publisher and publication director | Augusto Grone |
| Contact | gockaman@gmail.com |
| Hosting | GitHub Pages — GitHub, Inc., 88 Colin P. Kelly Jr. Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States |
| Intellectual property | Original content © 2026 delf-tcf-tef.fr |
| Personal data | See the privacy policy (in French) |
Marks cited. DELF, DALF and TCF are marks of France Éducation international. TEF, TEFAQ and TEF Canada are marks of Le français des affaires — CCI Paris Île-de-France. NCLC and CLB are frameworks of the Government of Canada. These names are used purely descriptively, to name the exams this site covers.
Our guides
- All English pages
Sourced guides on the TCF Canada and its CLB scores, the DELF and DALF, exam dates and centres by country.