Since September, a TCF score can no longer be challenged.
When a score lands just under the level you need, the first instinct is to ask for a second marking. That procedure existed, it cost around $200, and France Éducation international suspended it on 1 September 2026 for a year. But the suspension is not the real blind spot.
What it costs
Re-marking only ever applied to speaking and writing, the two sections marked by a human examiner. Listening and reading are machine-marked, so no appeal has ever existed for them — and since 1 September, no section has one at all.
The date that counts is your exam date, not the date your results arrive. A test sat on 31 August 2026 still qualified for a re-mark; one sat on 1 September did not.
Key points
- A one-year suspension from 1 September 2026, with a return announced for autumn 2027.
- A re-mark cost around $200 and had to be filed within a month of your results certificate.
- For listening and reading, the only remedy has always been to resit the section and pay again.
Why you only find out when you need it
You assume an examiner can read your work again. In listening and reading there is nothing to read: you tick answers, and the marking is automatic. So there was never a second reading to ask for, and France Éducation international never offered the remedy for those two sections. Your score is fixed the second the session closes, and it goes into your file exactly as it is.
What it changes for your preparation
While the suspension lasts, all four sections are in the position listening and reading were already in: what is done is done. The only point where you can still act is beforehand. In listening, the audio plays once and 39 questions run past you in 35 minutes — that is precisely where practising under exam conditions moves your score, because nothing will move it afterwards.
Ready to reach CLB 7?
There is no second marking left to ask for, and in listening there never was one. The only version of your score that counts is built before the exam, so you may as well find out tonight where you actually stand.
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