French - B2 and beyond

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Re: French - towards B1 and beyond

Postby LanguageLearner0007 » Mon Jul 04, 2022 3:46 pm

sooooooooo
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Re: French - towards B1 and beyond

Postby Amandine » Tue Jul 05, 2022 12:01 am

I haven't been holding out on you, we literally only got the results last night.

I got 86/100 which is ... fine I guess.

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Listening - 22/25 This is good! I got 21/25 on the mock exam and I thought the documents in the actual exam were harder so I'll take this.

Reading - 21.5/25 :oops: :cry: :evil: So this one is not good. I'll be honest les gars, I'm really disappointed. I got 25/25 in the mock and always get full marks for any reading exercise I do. It's the easiest!! But somewhere, somehow I really ... fucked up is the only way I can put it. 3.5 points is at least two probably three (or four???) questions I got totally wrong. How???? Which ones? I will never know which ones or how and it will torture me. Of course it's always possible to misread things even in English, it happens. But dang ... I can't stop stewing on this one.

Writing - 24/25 this is obviously a very good mark, I got really lucky with the question being one I had really learned a lot of phrases for. If I got 21.5 for this and 24 for the reading, I would be feeling a whole lot better about it even with the same overall mark (and it would also be a better reflection of my actual levels for each)

Speaking - 18.5/25 I was hoping for a few more points so I got 20/25 for each section but I can't really complain. I know I lost points on the third part by babbling au hasard without any kind of structure so if I had ticked those boxes I would've got my 20. Definitely translating passive knowledge to spoken fluency, especially under exam conditions, is the big challenge for my study from here.

So there you go. I'm having a bit of a sook at the moment about the comprehension ecrit result so I might have more perspective on it in a week or so. ;)
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Re: French - towards B1 and beyond

Postby luke » Tue Jul 05, 2022 12:26 am

Amandine wrote:I haven't been holding out on you, we literally only got the results last night.

I got 86/100 which is ... fine I guess.

So there you go.

Congratulations! It feels good just being a spectator in your success story.
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Re: French - towards B1 and beyond

Postby Lawyer&Mom » Tue Jul 05, 2022 2:20 am

Wait, a passing score is 50, and an 86 is merely fine?!? You blew it out of the water! Well done you!
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Re: French - towards B1 and beyond

Postby Amandine » Tue Jul 05, 2022 6:25 am

Thank you @luke and @Lawyer&Mom très gentil de votre part
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Re: French - towards B1 and beyond

Postby iguanamon » Tue Jul 05, 2022 1:23 pm

I have been following your journey. It is good to see hard work, consistency and persistence pay off! Congratulations!
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Re: French - towards B1 and beyond

Postby badger » Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:05 pm

congratulations - not that it was ever in doubt :)
Amandine wrote:I got 86/100 which is ... fine I guess.

you could have worked much less hard & still passed ;)
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Re: French - towards B1 and beyond

Postby LanguageLearner0007 » Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:47 pm

Congratulations! With scores like these, you're probably close to B2 already 8-)
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Re: French - towards B1 and beyond

Postby Le Baron » Tue Jul 05, 2022 5:36 pm

Amandine wrote:Reading - 21.5/25 :oops: :cry: :evil: So this one is not good. I'll be honest les gars, I'm really disappointed.

I'd probably be stewing with irritation too, but it's easy to get those reading tests muddled up. So often more than one answer seems correct; they seem to confuse giving you a challenge with totally muddying the clarity. I complained about this on a German mock exam and was so irritated I just dumped the idea of even doing the exam. I don't need it now so who cares.

Excellent results for you though, especially writing. I look at results like this and say: just think how good you can be without the exam pressure and nerves et personne s'en fiche si tu jacasses au hasard! :lol:
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Re: French - towards B1 and beyond

Postby Cavesa » Tue Jul 05, 2022 7:23 pm

An excellent score, congratulations!!!

Don't be so unreasonably hard on yourself, enjoy your success to the fullest! Be proud!

Really, this kind of an exam is not supposed to be aced by most people, which is something hard to accept for people from some education and testing traditions (typically americans, who seem to be overall used to exams that are easy and not that important to get a good score at, but it matters a lot whether you get a near perfect or near near perfect one. Perhaps your experience and culture is similar). A part of the wiggle room is really meant for "messing up" a particular task, a particular topic not suiting you, being stressed out, etc. While there is probably a difference between someone scoring 50 and someone scoring 95, there isn't really much of a difference between people scoring 85 and 100. Or between person getting 60 and 70. Not in the real life, which is a much bigger sample than the exam.

So, when are you planning the B2? :-) I think we all knew B1 was likely to be too easy for you ;-)
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