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Online English level test
Find out your level on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C1. The questions get harder step by step, and at the end you get your result, a review of your mistakes and advice on what to do next.
- 30 questions
- 5–15 minutes
- CEFR A1–C1
- Mistakes explained
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- No sign-up and no time limit
- Levels from A1 to C1
- Instant result and review
Your result
Your result: A0 Starter
You’re just starting, which is the perfect moment to get your pronunciation right and build a solid base without habits you’d have to unlearn later.
- You know some words and phrases
- You understand simple instructions with help
- You’re ready for the alphabet, numbers and basic phrases
Your result: A1 Beginner / Elementary
You already understand simple phrases and can talk about yourself. Time to move from single words to full sentences.
- Introduce yourself and talk about yourself
- Understand simple phrases on familiar topics
- Ask and answer simple questions
Your result: A2 Pre-Intermediate
You cope with everyday situations and know the main tenses. Next comes conversation: fewer pauses, more of your own ideas.
- Talk about your day, work and hobbies
- Get by in a shop, café or station
- Write a short message or email
Your result: B1 Intermediate
You already speak English! Now it’s about confidence, a wider vocabulary and understanding real-life speech.
- Keep up a conversation on familiar topics
- Give and explain your opinion
- Understand the main points of articles, series and podcasts
Your result: B2 Upper-Intermediate
A level you can work and study in English with. Next: accuracy, style and confidence with complex topics.
- Talk freely with native speakers
- Discuss professional and abstract topics
- Understand films and the news without subtitles
Your result: C1 Advanced
Excellent: your grammar, vocabulary and reading are strong. Whether it’s already C2 only a live conversation with a teacher can tell.
- Use the language flexibly for work and study
- Understand complex texts and implied meaning
- Speak clearly and in a structured way on complex topics
“+” means you already handle part of the next level with confidence.
Get your result and a 2-week plan
The topics you got wrong and a plan of 15–20 minutes a day. Reminders in 7 and 14 days.
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What to work on
- Present Simple RuleQuiz
- There is / there are, some / any RuleQuiz
- Past Simple RuleQuiz
- Comparatives and superlatives RuleQuiz
- Will / going to RuleQuiz
- Present Perfect RuleQuiz
- Conditionals Quiz
- Passive voice RuleQuiz
- Phrasal verbs Mini-course
- Past Perfect RuleQuiz
- Wish and if only RuleQuiz
- Gerund or infinitive RuleQuiz
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Goal: A1 — introduce yourself, talk about yourself and your family, understand simple questions.
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Goal: A2 — talk about the past and your plans, feel confident in shops, cafés and when travelling.
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Goal: B1 — keep up a conversation on familiar topics, give your opinion, follow series with subtitles.
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Goal: B2 — speak fluently and spontaneously, understand native speakers without subtitles, work in English.
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Goal: C1 — idioms, complex structures, business and academic writing, the IELTS 7.0+ exam.
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Goal: C2 or a specific target — IELTS 7.5+, negotiations, public speaking in English.
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Your mistakes explained
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A1 · Grammar
My sister ___ a doctor.
Your answer:
Correct: is
After he / she / it (my sister = she), the verb to be is is.
Review: Present SimpleA1 · Grammar
___ you like coffee?
Your answer:
Correct: Do
Present Simple questions with you use the auxiliary Do: Do you like…?
Review: Present SimpleA1 · Grammar
There ___ two cats in the garden.
Your answer:
Correct: are
Two cats is plural, so we say there are. There is is for one thing.
Review: There is / there are, some / anyA1 · Vocabulary
I have breakfast in the ___ and dinner in the evening.
Your answer:
Correct: morning
We have breakfast in the morning.
A1 · Vocabulary
The opposite of “cheap” is ___.
Your answer:
Correct: expensive
Cheap means low in price; expensive means high in price.
A1 · Reading
Where does Olha live now?
Your answer:
Correct: In Kyiv
“I’m from Odesa, but now I live in Kyiv”: Odesa is where she is from, Kyiv is where she lives now.
A2 · Grammar
Yesterday we ___ to the cinema.
Your answer:
Correct: went
Yesterday signals a finished past action, so we use the Past Simple: go → went.
Review: Past SimpleA2 · Grammar
This is ___ film I have ever seen!
Your answer:
Correct: the best
The superlative of good is the best, not the most good.
Review: Comparatives and superlativesA2 · Grammar
Look at those black clouds! It ___ rain.
Your answer:
Correct: is going to
For a prediction based on what we can see now (black clouds), we use be going to.
Review: Will / going toA2 · Vocabulary
Can you ___ me your pen, please? I’ll give it back in a minute.
Your answer:
Correct: lend
Lend = give for a short time; borrow = take for a short time. You lend something to someone.
A2 · Vocabulary
I’m really ___ in history, so I read a lot about it.
Your answer:
Correct: interested
-ed adjectives describe how a person feels (I’m interested in…); -ing ones describe the thing (History is interesting).
A2 · Reading
Why didn’t Ann answer Max earlier?
Your answer:
Correct: She was away on holiday
“I was on holiday in Lviv”: she was away travelling.
B1 · Grammar
I ___ in this city since 2019.
Your answer:
Correct: have lived
Since + a point in the past, with the situation still true now, needs the Present Perfect: have lived.
Review: Present PerfectB1 · Grammar
If it rains tomorrow, we ___ at home.
Your answer:
Correct: will stay
A real future condition (First Conditional): If + Present Simple, … will + verb.
Review: ConditionalsB1 · Grammar
The museum ___ in 1890.
Your answer:
Correct: was built
The museum didn’t build anything — it was built: the Past Simple passive.
Review: Passive voiceB1 · Vocabulary
Could you ___ the music down, please? I’m trying to sleep.
Your answer:
Correct: turn
Turn down = make quieter (turn up = make louder).
Review: Phrasal verbsB1 · Vocabulary
She gave ___ smoking last year and feels much better now.
Your answer:
Correct: up
Give up (doing) something = stop doing it.
Review: Phrasal verbsB1 · Reading
According to the text, what helped remote workers feel better?
Your answer:
Correct: Sometimes working outside the home
People who worked from a café or co-working space twice a week felt happier — outside the home.
B2 · Grammar
By the time we arrived at the cinema, the film ___.
Your answer:
Correct: had already started
One past action happened before another (by the time we arrived), so we use the Past Perfect: had started.
Review: Past PerfectB2 · Grammar
I wish I ___ more free time — I’d travel much more.
Your answer:
Correct: had
For a wish about the present, use I wish + Past Simple: I wish I had…
Review: Wish and if onlyB2 · Grammar
It was getting late, so she suggested ___ a taxi.
Your answer:
Correct: taking
Suggest is followed by -ing (suggest taking) or a that-clause, never by to + verb.
Review: Gerund or infinitiveB2 · Vocabulary
After sales fell sharply, the company had to ___ 200 employees.
Your answer:
Correct: lay off
Lay off = end people’s jobs because there isn’t enough work or money.
Review: Phrasal verbsB2 · Vocabulary
He was reluctant to sign the contract. “Reluctant” is closest in meaning to ___.
Your answer:
Correct: unwilling
Reluctant = not wanting to do something (unwilling). Eager is the opposite.
B2 · Reading
Why, according to the author, is the myth still popular?
Your answer:
Correct: It suggests people could achieve much more
The author says the myth survives because it promises “huge, untapped potential”.
C1 · Grammar
Not only ___ late, but he also forgot the documents.
Your answer:
Correct: was he
When a sentence starts with Not only, the subject and verb are inverted: Not only was he late…
C1 · Grammar
Had I known about the traffic jam, I ___ earlier.
Your answer:
Correct: would have left
Had I known = If I had known: an unreal past condition (Third Conditional) → would have left.
Review: ConditionalsC1 · Grammar
It’s high time the city council ___ something about the traffic.
Your answer:
Correct: did
It’s (high) time is followed by the Past Simple, although it refers to now: It’s high time they did…
C1 · Vocabulary
The negotiations reached a ___, with neither side willing to compromise.
Your answer:
Correct: stalemate
A stalemate is a situation where neither side can make progress. A breakthrough is the opposite.
C1 · Vocabulary
Her argument doesn’t hold ___ — the figures she quotes are ten years out of date.
Your answer:
Correct: water
The idiom not hold water means an argument or theory doesn’t stand up to examination.
C1 · Reading
What is the author’s main reservation about the trials?
Your answer:
Correct: The companies that took part may not be typical
The firms chose to take part and were the ones most likely to succeed, so they may not represent the wider economy.
What the English test checks
Each level has 3 grammar questions, 2 vocabulary questions and a short reading text. Here is the grammar you will meet:
A1
Beginner / Elementary
Grammar
to be · Present Simple · there is / there are
A2
Pre-Intermediate
Grammar
Past Simple · comparatives & superlatives · going to
B1
Intermediate
Grammar
Present Perfect · First Conditional · Passive
B2
Upper-Intermediate
Grammar
Past Perfect · I wish · suggest + -ing
C1
Advanced
Grammar
inversion · Third Conditional · it’s high time
English levels on the CEFR scale
What A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C2 mean — and what you can do at each level.
A1 · Beginner / Elementary
You understand and use simple phrases: you can introduce yourself, talk about yourself and ask the way.
A2 · Pre-Intermediate
You communicate in simple everyday situations — shops, cafés, travel — and talk about the past and your plans.
B1 · Intermediate
You keep up a conversation on familiar topics, give your opinion and understand the gist of films and articles.
B2 · Upper-Intermediate
You talk freely with native speakers, discuss complex topics and can work in English.
C1 · Advanced
You use the language flexibly and precisely for work and study, and understand implied meaning and style.
C2 · Proficiency
You speak almost like a native speaker: you understand everything and express fine shades of meaning.
The CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) is the international scale used to describe levels in any European language in textbooks, schools and exams.
English levels A1–C2: the full chartWhat you can do at each level, how many words and hours it takes, IELTS and Cambridge equivalents and how to certify your level.
How the test works
A ladder of levels
We start at A1 and move up while your answers are confident (at least 4 of 6). A beginner finishes in a few minutes; an advanced learner answers all 30 questions.
Three skills
Each level has 3 grammar questions, 2 vocabulary questions and a short reading text.
An honest result
An “I don’t know” button instead of guessing, and at the end every mistake is explained.
The rest with a teacher
Only a person can assess speaking, pronunciation and listening — in a live lesson with a teacher.
FAQ
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How long does the test take?
Usually 5–15 minutes. The test is adaptive: it ends as soon as the questions get too hard for you. There is no time limit.
Is the test free? Do I need to sign up?
The test is completely free with no sign-up. You see your result right after the last question, and your answers are not sent anywhere — they stay in your browser.
How accurate is the result?
The test gives an estimate of your English level on the CEFR scale (A1–C1) in grammar, vocabulary and reading. Only a teacher can assess speaking and listening, in a live lesson.
Is the test suitable for children?
The test is for teenagers aged 12 and over and for adults. Younger children’s level is best assessed through games with a teacher.
What should I do after the test?
Look through your mistakes: they show which topics to revise. If you’d like to study with a teacher, leave a request — your test result is added to it automatically.
Can I take the test again?
Yes, as many times as you like. If you close the page in the middle of the test, your progress is saved in your browser and you can continue where you left off.
What level of English do I need for IELTS or work?
IELTS 5.5–6.5 roughly corresponds to B2, and 7.0–8.0 to C1. Working in an international team usually requires at least B2.
What is hardest about English?
For Ukrainian and Russian speakers: the tense system (especially the Present Perfect), articles and phrasal verbs. The test checks exactly these at levels A2–C1.
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