Free English level test
29 questions in the real Cambridge exam formats — cloze, word formation, key word transformations, reading — timed like the paper and scored against a published standard. The result is honest: B1, B1+, B2, B2+ or C1, with a breakdown by format and every answer explained.
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Honest result — if you are B1, it says B1.
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Five formats from the B2 First Reading & Use of English paper, in exam order: cloze, open cloze, word formation, key word transformations and a reading text. The clock runs like the paper's.
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Opens only if you score seven in ten on the B2 stage. The same four Use of English formats at C1 Advanced level decide whether the answer is B2, B2+ or C1.
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A band, a score for every format so you can see where the marks went, the one format to drill first, and a review of every question with the reason behind the answer.
Every question is a real format from the Reading & Use of English paper, taken from the free exercises in the bank. They look exactly as they do in the exam, because they are rendered by the same code that runs the mock exams.
Multiple-choice cloze
Four words that mean nearly the same thing; only one keeps company with the words around the gap. Collocation.
Open cloze
A gap and no options — articles, prepositions, linkers, the small words that carry grammar.
Word formation
A root word in capitals to change into the form the sentence needs. Prefixes, suffixes, sign.
Key word transformations
Rewrite a sentence around a given word so the meaning survives. Structures, not vocabulary.
Reading · multiple choice
A text and questions about what the writer means, not what the words say. B2 stage only.
Listening, Writing, Speaking
A fifteen-minute quiz that claimed to measure them would be guessing. They exist here as free drills and full mocks, marked properly.
Six bands, each with the distance to the exam in plain words. The thresholds are the same standard the practice bank is held to — seven in ten on B2-format questions is what we call B2.
| Band | How it is reached | What it means | The distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below B1 | Under 35 % on the B2 stage | Not yet B1 | B2 First is more than a year away |
| B1 | 35–52 % on the B2 stage | B1 — the foundation is there | B2 First: roughly a school year of steady work |
| B1+ | 53–69 % on the B2 stage | B1+ — B2 First is within reach | B2 First: four to six months of targeted practice |
| B2 | 70 %+ on the B2 stage, under 40 % on the C1 stage | B2 — ready to prepare for B2 First | B2 First: eight to twelve weeks of pure exam training |
| B2+ | 70 %+ on the B2 stage, 40–66 % on the C1 stage | B2+ — aim high at B2 First, or start on C1 | Grade A at B2 First, or C1 Advanced in six months or more |
| C1 | 70 %+ on the B2 stage, 67 %+ on the C1 stage | C1 — C1 Advanced is your exam | C1 Advanced: find the part that costs marks, then train it |
Most free level tests are built to flatter, because a flattered visitor buys. We sell preparation for B2 First and C1 Advanced — and a candidate told they are B2+ when they are B1 buys a pass they would fail. That is a refund, a bad review and a wasted term, not a customer. So the thresholds here are calibrated to the standard our own practice is held to, and the copy says what the distance is rather than that you are nearly there.
It is still indicative. Twenty-nine questions cannot see your Writing or your Speaking, and a good day or a bad one moves a borderline result by a band. The fuller answer is a free mock exam at the level the result points to: a whole paper, on the real clock, marked the same way.
