A French course that is allowed to tell you no.
Parcours is a structured French programme that runs from absolute beginner to a measured CEFR A2, aimed at people preparing for the TCF Canada or TEF Canada exam. It is one track of 26 gated modules. There is no catalogue to choose from, because choosing what to study next is the decision self-study reliably gets wrong.
What it measures
The final module is an adaptive mock in the official TCF and TEF Canada formats. Answers are scored with an item-response model: each question carries a difficulty, and your ability estimate is the value that best explains the pattern of what you got right, not a percentage of questions answered. The output is a CEFR band with a confidence interval attached, and where the evidence is thin the interval widens rather than the estimate guessing.
That band is then read against the NCLC scale a Canadian immigration file is assessed on. The number of items behind the estimate is always reported next to it, because a band from six questions and a band from forty are not the same claim.
What it is not
A Parcours score is not an official language test result. Only a TCF Canada or TEF Canada sitting administered by an approved test centre produces a result Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada will accept. Nothing here is submitted anywhere, counts for anything on an application, or predicts what an official session will return. It is practice, and a read on whether you are ready to book one.
The mapping from a CEFR band to an NCLC range is an approximation drawn from published equivalence charts, and those charts have been revised before. Treat the range as an indication of where you sit, not as a score. If an exact conversion matters to a decision you are making, the authority on it is IRCC, not this site.
The track finishes at A2, which is NCLC 4 to 5. It is not a B1 course, it does not become one, and it will not tell you otherwise.
Where the material comes from
The curriculum is written against the can-do descriptors in the CEFR Companion Volume, published by the Council of Europe. Each module names the descriptors it covers, and exercises are generated against those descriptors so a wrong answer resolves to a named gap rather than to a percentage.
Vocabulary frequencies, phonemic transcriptions, example sentences and reading passages come from open linguistic corpora — Lexique 3, Wiktionary via Wiktextract, Tatoeba and the French Wikivoyage. Every source, and the licence it arrives under, is listed on the credits page.
The grammar explanations the track teaches from are published in full at the grammar reference, free and without an account. The explanations are not the product; the order, the marking and the gate are.
Who makes it
Parcours is built and maintained by a single independent developer. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to France Éducation international, the Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Paris, the Council of Europe, or Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. TCF and TEF are the marks of their respective owners and are used here only to name the exam formats the mock follows.
Corrections and questions are welcome at @jefedcreator. If you find a grammar explanation that is wrong, say so — it will be fixed and the page will say when it changed.