Tools

When to use which

The CLB calculator is the one to reach for before you book an exam or submit a profile. TEF and TCF both report raw scores, but IRCC awards CRS points on CLB levels, and the conversion is not linear — a few raw marks can be the difference between CLB 6 and CLB 7, which is the band where the French bonus jumps. Put a practice score in and it tells you the level, the points, and how far you are from the next band. The bands it uses are the published thresholds, printed on the page beside the result and dated, so you can check them rather than trust them.

The conjugator is for reading rather than planning. It holds full tables for the common A1–A2 verbs across five tenses, and it works backwards too: type a form you met in a text — finissais, ai pris — and it tells you which verb and tense it came from, which is the lookup you actually need while reading. It is a reference, not a drill; the forms only become automatic through the conjugation drill.

Why these run in your browser

Neither tool sends anything anywhere. There is no account, no upload and no server doing the work — the calculator's bands and the conjugator's index are part of the page you already downloaded, so the calculation happens on your device and your scores are never transmitted. That is also why both keep working on a bad connection, and why nothing here can be lost when a service shuts down.

Both tools are built from the same data as the lessons that explain them, checked against each other when the site is built, so a number here and a number in a lesson cannot drift apart. If you want the reasoning rather than the answer, CLB/NCLC score conversion explains how the levels map to CRS points in detail, and TEF vs TCF covers which exam to sit.