Grammar

English level test

Twenty-four questions, one gap each — four from every level, shuffled together. Answer them and you get your level, your misses and the forms to work on.

How it works

Twenty-four questions: four from every level, A1 through C2. They are shuffled, so a C2 question can land second and an A1 question seventeenth, and the order tells you nothing.

That shuffle is the point. When a test runs level by level, you work out where you stand long before it does — the easy ones ran out, so this must be my ceiling — and you spend the rest of it either being careful or being annoyed. Mixed up, every sentence has to be read on its own terms. The level each question came from is shown once you have answered it, together with the form it was testing, as a link.

A level counts as held when you get three of its four questions right. Your result is the highest level you hold with nothing skipped underneath: hold A1, A2 and B1 but miss B2, and you are B1 — even if the C2 four went well. Four right at C2 on top of a broken A2 means a lucky guess or one familiar form, not C2 grammar.

No question repeats a form inside its level, so four questions at B2 means four different pieces of B2 grammar rather than four goes at the same one.

What the result is based on

Your result is a grammar level, and only that. The questions ask you to choose the form that fits a sentence: a tense, an article, a pronoun, a preposition, a conditional. Nothing here measures your vocabulary, your listening, your writing or how you sound when you speak. Someone who reads novels in English can still miss the future perfect continuous, and someone who has drilled every tense can still run out of words ordering coffee.

So treat the level as a reading of one thing — which grammatical forms you control — and the list of missed forms as the useful part. That list is what the practice pages are for.

Where the questions come from

Every sentence in the test comes from the same corpus as the rest of the site: more than forty thousand sentences across 105 grammar forms, each one read through by hand with its answer and its distractors checked. Each level draws from the forms that belong to it, and the four questions at a level come from four different forms.

What each level covers

These are the forms the test draws from, grouped by level. The counts are sentences with answer options — the kind the test asks.