Free TCF Canada mock test: full length, scored, no card
Aman Batth · 8 min read ·
A free TCF Canada mock test that runs under the real section timers and comes back scored on both official scales — compréhension on 100–699 with its CEFR level, expression out of 20 with its NCLC band. Plus what you can keep practising free every day.
A TCF mock test is only useful if it scores you. Most "free TCF mock test" results hand you a PDF: the questions are real enough, but a printable answer sheet cannot time your compréhension orale, cannot tell you which words a marker would not have understood, and cannot put a number on your expression écrite. You finish where you started — no idea what you would score.
Hilingo's free TCF Canada mock runs in the browser under the real section timers and comes back scored on both of the scales the TCF actually reports: compréhension orale and écrite on 100–699 with the CEFR level beside them, expression orale and écrite out of 20 with the NCLC band IRCC reads. No card, no trial that expires into a paywall before you see the result.
What the free TCF mock test includes
| One full-length TCF Canada mock | All four parts, real section timers |
| Your result, free | The full score report, not a teaser |
| 2 AI-scored read-aloud attempts, every day | Marked word by word |
| 2 AI-scored expression écrite attempts | The real tâches, scored out of 20 |
| Conjugation drills | Ten per sitting |
Those daily and lifetime allowances are the actual configured limits, not a marketing round number. The free mock is one per account; the read-aloud practice refreshes every day, so you can keep using it without ever paying.
Compréhension: marked per item, on the real scale
Compréhension orale and compréhension écrite are marked per item and reported on 100–699 with the CEFR level beside the number, because that is how the TCF reports them. A percentage would be easier to display and would tell you nothing about where you sit against an immigration threshold.
The conversion from those numbers to NCLC — and why IRCC reads your weakest skill rather than an average — is worked through in our TCF Canada score chart, with the official bands and IRCC's own equivalency page cited.
The best free TCF speaking practice you will find
This is the part a PDF cannot do at all, and it is where we are strongest.
You record in French, and the passage comes back word by word — showing which words were clear and which were not. Not a band. Not generic advice about fluency. The actual words, in the answer you just gave.
That matters because most candidates have no idea what their pronunciation scores. You cannot hear yourself the way a marker hears you, so you practise the thing you can control — the words you chose — and hope the rest is fine. It is a measurement problem, not a strategy problem.
There are 868 read-aloud topics in the bank, drawn from real exam topics, and two AI-scored attempts are free every single day — not a one-off trial. That is the practice loop that actually moves a speaking score: record, see the red words, record again, and again tomorrow.
Compare that with what "free" usually means in TCF preparation: a PDF of prompts, or a few minutes of a paid platform before the paywall closes. Scored French speaking practice that refreshes every day, at no cost, is the first thing we would put in front of you.
A read-aloud drill is our addition, not a TCF task — the page says so. It exists because pronunciation is the hardest thing to self-assess and the easiest to fix once you can see it.
Expression écrite: the strongest French writing marker we could build
Three writing tasks, scored out of 20 with the NCLC equivalent, on grammar, syntax, vocabulary and conventions plus coherence and task achievement — and every mark comes with the reason behind it.
The important detail is what does the marking. Expression écrite is scored by a marker built for French, not an English model pointed at French text. That distinction is not cosmetic. An English-trained essay model reads French as a degraded version of English: accents look like noise, French discourse markers look like padding, and the score comes back low for reasons that have nothing to do with the writing. We measured that on identical content in both languages and rebuilt the French path because of it.
Two AI-scored expression écrite attempts are free, on the real tâches with the real word limits.
Grammar: 431 conjugation drills, free
Conjugation is where TCF candidates lose marks quietly. You can have the vocabulary and the ideas and still be marked down on conventions because the subjunctive slipped, or the passé composé auxiliary was wrong.
There are 431 conjugation drills, served ten per sitting, so it fits in the gap between other things rather than needing an evening. It is the cheapest band you will ever recover.
Typing French accents
Expression écrite is marked partly on spelling and conventions, and a missing accent is a spelling error — écrire and ecrire are not the same word to a marker. If your keyboard has no French layout, our free French keyboard types é è ê à ç ô ù œ by click or shortcut, with the real Expression écrite word limits alongside. No account needed for that one either.
Why the free mock is a real mock
Here is the comparison that actually matters, stated plainly.
A downloadable TCF mock gives you the questions. That is genuinely worth something — the questions are the hard part to source. But the parts that change your score are the parts a PDF structurally cannot do:
- it cannot stop you when compréhension orale runs out of time
- it cannot tell you which words in your recording were unclear
- it cannot put your expression écrite on the /20 scale your report will use
- it cannot show you which of the four skills is holding your NCLC down, which is the only one IRCC cares about
Our bank is 195 full mock tests and 3,230 questions across the four parts. The first one is free, scored, with the full report.
What we will not tell you
You will not find an accuracy percentage on this page.
No third-party scorer is France Éducation international's, and a number we cannot show you the working for is marketing, not evidence. The honest use of any practice scorer is to find which criterion is leaking marks and whether you are trending toward your target — not to predict your certificate to the point.
The certificate only comes from a France Éducation international test centre. Everything here is preparation for that day.
If your French is not strong enough to read the feedback yet
That is a normal place to start, and it should not block you.
The AI teacher answers in 51 languages — including Arabic, Haitian Creole, Wolof, Lingala, Hindi and Punjabi — and any passage on screen can be translated as you read it. You can work through French material in the language you actually think in, which is how most people get from B1 to B2.
Where the official rules actually come from
Two primary sources are worth bookmarking, because most of what circulates about the TCF is second-hand.
The exam itself is run by France Éducation international, the body that sets the TCF Canada format and issues the certificate. Their page is the authority on session structure and what the attestation covers — not a coaching site, and not this one.
What Canada accepts is set by IRCC, and their Express Entry language test page lists TCF Canada by name alongside TEF Canada for French, and CELPIP, IELTS General Training and PTE Core for English. The same page carries two rules people routinely get wrong:
- your results must be less than two years old when you submit, and
- your score is read per skill, not as an average.
That second one is the expensive one. A candidate at NCLC 9/9/9/7 is scored as a 7 for the purposes that matter, and the fix is almost always one weak skill rather than a general push. It is why our report ranks your four skills rather than showing a single headline number — the weakest one is the only one your application turns on.
If you are choosing between the two French tests, IRCC accepts both TCF Canada and TEF Canada equally; pick by test-centre availability and dates, not by which is supposedly easier.
FAQ
Is the TCF mock test really free?
Yes. One full-length mock, scored, with the full report — no card. Beyond that, two AI-scored read-aloud attempts every day and two AI-scored expression écrite attempts, plus the conjugation drills, without paying.
Is the free mock the full test or a sample?
Full length, all four parts, under the real section timers. The free tier is one complete mock rather than a cut-down demo, because a shortened test cannot tell you anything useful about pacing.
How is the TCF scored?
Compréhension orale and écrite are reported on 100–699 with a CEFR level. Expression orale and écrite are scored out of 20. Canadian immigration reads all four as NCLC levels — and reads your lowest skill, not your average. The full conversion is in our TCF Canada score chart.
Is an AI score the same as an official TCF result?
No, and we will not pretend otherwise. It is a coaching tool: use it to find which criterion is costing you marks and whether you are improving. Your certificate comes from an official test centre.
Can I practise speaking and writing without buying a plan?
Yes — that is the point of the daily allowance. Two AI-scored read-aloud attempts refresh every day and two expression écrite attempts are free, so the practice loop keeps working after the free mock is used.
Do I need a French keyboard?
Not for the mock — but accents are marked, so it helps. The French keyboard is free with no sign-up.
The short version
A free TCF mock test that does not score you tells you what the exam looks like. That is worth one sitting.
A scored one tells you where you would land, on the scale your application is read on, and which skill is holding you down. That is worth repeating until the number moves.
Take the free TCF Canada mock — full length, both official scales, no card.